• BanMe@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Starbucks was an amusing rise and fall.

    • Put one on every street-corner, possibly across the street from each other.
    • Run all the other coffee shops out of business
    • Let your stores fail because they can’t sustain themselves
    • Competitors notice this, and move in with drive-through-only stores

    Of course the competitors are small chains and the original shops were indie, but that’s just the free hand of the market fisting some folks without lube