<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89ea3325-7e93-434e-b8d4-80f9644a8850/FA4C31D8-11E8-4AFE-98A9-F76072BB0AAA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/" href="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/"><P class="storyheadline">Starbucks' Latest Evil Plan to Take Over (More) of the World</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/">But perhaps not for much longer, and not because the local is inevitably pulverised by the global. On the contrary. Starbucks' new <A title="stealth strategy" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5877949/Starbucks-to-open-stealth-cafes-in-rebranding-move.html" linkindex="32">stealth strategy</A> sees it "rebranding", or de-branding, stores to give them different names and more local "community personality". A victim of its own success -- 161 branches within a five-mile radius in Central London and the famous promise to open a new one every fortnight -- Starbucks has been hit by the recession </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/">If every human desire, including a commitment to the distinctively local can be repackaged with such global panache, perhaps this is further evidence of the futility of resisting the gigantic enclosure that is corporate globalization.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/">dissident alternatives</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/">efforts to reclaim the local from private corporations, they too are subject to rebranding as "lost regions", troublespots that threaten the stability of the world mocha order</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141549/starbucks%27_latest_evil_plan_to_take_over_%28more%29_of_the_world/">choices get reduced to Pepsi or Coke</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA4C31D8-11E8-4AFE-98A9-F76072BB0AAA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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