• @NateNate60
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    6 months ago

    My guess before reading: union-busting

    Will edit after reading to see if I was right

    Edit: was wrong

    • @grue
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      416 months ago

      Companies have used “crime” as a scapegoat to cover for closing store for other reasons before…

      • @[email protected]
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        366 months ago

        Keep in mind — this is KOMO News, who regularly pushes the “crime” narrative as a political policy, independent of whether it’s accurate or not.

  • @BradleyUffner
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    6 months ago

    Can’t they just go to the one directly across the street? Or even the one diagonally across the intersection if they feel like walking a little further?

    • Zier
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      126 months ago

      You forgot about the one inside the building 1/3 of a block back. And the kiosk in the hotel lobby near by. WHY are there never enough Starbucks around? WHY??? so thirsty…

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        it’s a franchise. When too many open in one spot it’s because starbucks granted the licences. The actual shops are operated by the shop owners, paying to use the starbucks brand.

        Starbucks itself doesn’t care that many of its shops are in direct competition of “their own” shops. That’s the franchisee’s problem, not theirs. They get paid by all shops regardless.

      • pruwyben
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        36 months ago

        I remember once I was at a Starbucks downtown and asked where the restroom was. I passed another Starbucks on the way to the restroom.

  • @Anticorp
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    16 months ago

    Is it because nObOdy WaNts tO wORk aNyMorE?