patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to en102
Re: karma
said by en102  :That actually exists where I live. There's a 'corporate' Starbucks, and ~ 200' away there's a VONS (grocery store in SoCal) with a Starbucks inside it. The VONS Starbucks used to have a deal , where if you used a VONS card (free tracking info card), buy 7 drinks of any kind, and your 8th was free (any size, and kind!) My example was fictitious, Starbucks doesn't franchise except under 1 condition, the Starbucks franchise is in restricted access space and does not appear to be a standalone/public operation, such a super market, another store, a university campus, or a sterile space like an office building cafeteria/military base.
But Starbucks has serious internal drama because of how middle management and rank and file blaming the franchises for stealing business/blame their own mistakes on the franchises.
I couldn't think of a well known franchise that has publically known franchise and saturation problems. Some call Coldstone a MLM scheme. I know 1/2 to 3/4s of the ones in NYC have closed. There are smaller localized spats over Subway franchises being too close, but that I think that was a much smaller problem than Coldstone, and the Subway franchise spats have gotten much less media/internet attention than Coldstone.
McDonalds I've never heard of having saturation/franchise problems, maybe corporate does its homework, or its fundamentally impossible to screw up a McDonalds franchise since your the bottom of the barrel and your market is as addicted reliable as sun rising aslong as (I'll stop this here to prevent a flame war) |
