Comments on: My take on Starbucks’ struggle in New Zealand http://www.pocketsmith.com/blog/2008/12/02/my-take-on-starbucks-struggle-in-new-zealand/ Discover and define your financial future, and track our progress. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:43:51 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: James http://www.pocketsmith.com/blog/2008/12/02/my-take-on-starbucks-struggle-in-new-zealand/comment-page-1/#comment-329 James Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:58:10 +0000 http://www.pocketsmith.com/blog/?p=362#comment-329 Hi, thanks for reading and your thoughts. You are right - Restaurant Brands NZ is a New Zealand company, however what I expressed above was more a reaction to the brand itself, as a consumer, not so much the actual ownership of the company. You are absolutely right - companies such as Starbucks to create many many needed jobs within the New Zealand market - hard to fault them on this. It is just my personal opinion, and perhaps I didn't put things into context enough in the above, but seeing an overtly American brand in New Zealand (such as Starbucks) just drives me to go to someone I subconciously know is local. This could possibly be down to my nature... I am after all a small web entrepreneur and we would like people to come to us instead of using a Microsoft application ;) Hi, thanks for reading and your thoughts.

You are right – Restaurant Brands NZ is a New Zealand company, however what I expressed above was more a reaction to the brand itself, as a consumer, not so much the actual ownership of the company.

You are absolutely right – companies such as Starbucks to create many many needed jobs within the New Zealand market – hard to fault them on this.

It is just my personal opinion, and perhaps I didn’t put things into context enough in the above, but seeing an overtly American brand in New Zealand (such as Starbucks) just drives me to go to someone I subconciously know is local. This could possibly be down to my nature… I am after all a small web entrepreneur and we would like people to come to us instead of using a Microsoft application ;)

]]> By: AT http://www.pocketsmith.com/blog/2008/12/02/my-take-on-starbucks-struggle-in-new-zealand/comment-page-1/#comment-327 AT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:17:59 +0000 http://www.pocketsmith.com/blog/?p=362#comment-327 Hi there. Interesting comments but not sure if I agree totally. Firstly, isn't Restaurant Brandz (licensee of Starbucks in NZ) a local company? Also, how about the jobs that are created locally? I see that as supporting local communities and economy in different ways. Friends of mine work part time at Starbucks or McDonalds and that helped them through uni. Hi there. Interesting comments but not sure if I agree totally. Firstly, isn’t Restaurant Brandz (licensee of Starbucks in NZ) a local company? Also, how about the jobs that are created locally? I see that as supporting local communities and economy in different ways. Friends of mine work part time at Starbucks or McDonalds and that helped them through uni.

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