If you stand on the corner of Regent Street and Wigmore Street in central London, you are within five miles of 164 branches of Starbucks…
… Yesterday, the company announced a massive UK expansion, focused on London…
… each branch posed as a cosy neighbourhood coffee shop when, in fact, it was driving neighbourhood coffee shops to the wall. (Admittedly, the argument always had more credibility in San Francisco or Seattle than in Britain, where we didn’t really have coffee shops in the first place.)
Now there are 530 branches in the UK…
