Personally, I hate them because their coffee sucks and they are everywhere. You can’t escape them. However, there are plenty of other great reasons to hate Starbucks: (Before the Starbuckers begin their rebuttals, yes I know they sell Fair Trade coffee. But why do they continue to sell Un-Fair Trade coffee? All the drinks are made with sweatshop style labor. The Fair Trade stuff is sold in the bean form only, to go. The sales of Fair Trade make up less than 0.001 % of total sales for the company.)

Without further ado:

1. The vast majority of the coffee is grown using underpaid third world labor.

2. Starbucks is spreading across the world like a virus, infecting cultures with their formula of what a coffee shop should be.

3. They are everywhere.

4. They have predatory business practices. Common practices are things like paying landlords to not renew leases for coffee shops so that they can move in.

5. They sell fake corporate responsibility.

6. I think that their coffee sucks. It is always bitter.

7. The gross profit margin per store is, on average, 59.1%, therefore there is plenty of wiggle room for the company to pay more than a dollar a pound for coffee. (read: livable wage for their slave labor)

8. Faux ecologic responsibility.

9. False employee benefits. They give part time workers (20 hours per week) health insurance. However, I have received hundreds of emails from employees that consistently receive 19.75. 15 minutes shy of earning those costly benefits.

10. The crap they sell is incredibly unhealthy. Get the nutritional information, from their website it is appalling. The Caramel Pecan Sticky Roll (which has more fat than a Big Mac) or even better (worse), the Eggnog Latte are so bad for you, it is astounding.

That is just a start. I don’t really have enough time to put up all the reasons.

If you want more reasons, I suggest you read the quarterly report (10Q) on the investor relations portion of their website, but do it with a calculator, and read between the lines. The company publishes the reasons why you should hate them on their very own website.

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