Comments on: starbucks challenge, attempt 1

By: green LA girl

green LA girl — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:59:53 +0000

Darling — Another challenge anytime soon? Hoping :)

By: ma'ona

ma'ona — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:58:13 +0000

Starbucks Challenge

Starbucks offers Fair Trade coffee for sale, but how hard is it to actually get a cup?

By: City Hippy

City Hippy — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:06:08 +0000

Nice one Ground Control

Have added you to the del.icio.us feed! at del.icio.us/starbuckschallenge

Namaste

By: gzombie

gzombie — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:13:02 +0000

“no one wants to be that asshole who makes the minimum wage labour monkey do that extra work – those people are already getting too much hassle for their hourly rate.”

Yeah, that’s exactly right. Well said.

By: green LA girl

green LA girl — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:51:16 +0000

Thanks for joining the challenge! If you go back to retake the challenge, you might ask — after the barista says no fair trade’s a-brewing — if they might French-press a cup of it for you…

I totally agree with what you’re saying about the social pressures of making a specific request. Soy’s in easy reach in SoCal — no more difficult than asking for skim milk — but not fair trade so much. Which puts into doubt Starbuck’s contention that they’d brew fair trade more often if there were more of a demand for it. Well — if a company works to suppress demand…