Comments on: Campaign under way to evict Starbucks from Forbidden City http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/01/forbidden-city-starbucks/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:16:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Rival coffee cultures in Cairo http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/01/forbidden-city-starbucks/#comment-2955 Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Rival coffee cultures in Cairo Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:41:33 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=347#comment-2955 [...] food chains have done before them — in places with growing affluent middle classes such as China or India. This even includes Cairo, Egypt, where Starbucks opened its first shop in Africa: Rival [...] [...] food chains have done before them — in places with growing affluent middle classes such as China or India. This even includes Cairo, Egypt, where Starbucks opened its first shop in Africa: Rival [...]

]]> By: Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Campaign under way to evict Starbucks from Forbidden City http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2007/01/forbidden-city-starbucks/#comment-522 Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Campaign under way to evict Starbucks from Forbidden City Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:11:16 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=347#comment-522 [...] Here’s another example of a story that started out small and then exploded into a global news item over the past couple of days: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/16/2007 | Campaign under way to evict Starbucks from Forbidden City. At first, I passed on it — wanting to give the tiresome Starbucks issue a rest here. But then the story quickly snowballed from a targeted online protest fueled by a popular TV anchorman, from CCTV in China, to what is now a global story being covered by everyone from the International Herald Tribune to the BBC. [...] [...] Here’s another example of a story that started out small and then exploded into a global news item over the past couple of days: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/16/2007 | Campaign under way to evict Starbucks from Forbidden City. At first, I passed on it — wanting to give the tiresome Starbucks issue a rest here. But then the story quickly snowballed from a targeted online protest fueled by a popular TV anchorman, from CCTV in China, to what is now a global story being covered by everyone from the International Herald Tribune to the BBC. [...]

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