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The Unfortunate Trio Blend: Starbucks, Black Gold, Ethiopia

It is quite fascinating to see giant corporations, whom we perceive as untouchable, sometimes act like human beings. Personally, nothing captivates me more, in this automated corporate world, than feeling the honest human characters behind the amorphous structures operating in robotic styles and boring façades. And that is one of the good things I see in Starbucks; the fact that the company sometimes acts like a natural person – age doesn’t matter. Here is one such act – an act anyone you know might do. Last week, Black Gold movie’s opening in Los Angeles was announced through postings on several websites including here on Coffee Politics . As reported here , Starbucks issued what it calls a rumor response on January 12, 2007. By the way, I don’t see how a gossip retains its status as a rumor after making it all the way to an official website. Any ways, the response accused Black Gold by saying, “the film incompletely represents the work Starbucks is doing to address this (“ this” ref...

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