When I’m not drinking coffee at home, I try to resist the urge to go to the much, much closer Starbucks, and instead go to our favourite local coffee experience, Take 5 Cafe.
Oh, and I also bought a two cup filterless coffee maker for the office. The lack of a sink/running water still makes this pretty painful.
Starbucks is certainly an enlightened company in some ways (not like WalMart)—pensions for employees, decent wages, corporate giving, etc. etc.
BUT…by their very presence in our purely capitalistic marketplace, they squeeze out potential indepedent players, who generally have a much larger impact on their local community. Especially in terms of community.
In short, Starbucks is a global corporation, and like all such world spanning empires, they have no soul.
But, I’m a firm believer that we need to start fixing things in our backyard first. If your local independent coffee shop isn’t using fairtrade supplies, you can at least talk to them directly and affect change locally.
At Starbucks (yep, picking on them as an example…I think Blenz and Second Cup are a lot worse), change is way off at head office.
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