Re: Starbucks and Lease Breaking
Betts was bringing up the issue of ethics and morality, not legality. As long as a business isn't declared a monopoly, I suppose there's not a whole lot standing in the way of it and their competitors. I understand business is a cruel game, I just wish it didn't involve heavyweights bullying smaller businesses because they want to build a Starbucks Empire.
I'm not trying to present my case to the Court of Public Opinion, but I think most folks would agree with me. Losing our local businesses to corporate superpowers has played a large part in the disappearance of America's middleclass. As were finding in America, the free market helps only the giant corporations while hurting the very people that made them successful in the first place.
Next time a Wal-Mart goes up within a stone's throw of your house, you can thank the free market and recite your previous post.
...this shortest straw has been pulled for you
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