While free enterprise is still alive and well, I have a hard time when a giant strikes down a small business out of fear. Especially out of fear of bigger competition.
If given a choice of franchise coffee houses to over-pay for a cup of coffee, Caribou Coffee has always been my choice. But now that they’re forcing another coffee house to move, just isn’t right.
Lima Coffee is being forced to relocate after five years in that location because the mall developer recently signed an agreement to bring in a Caribou Coffee in another part of the development. The article, if you read it, says Caribou Coffee does these type agreements so it doesn’t end up against Starbucks. Lima Coffee isn’t Starbucks. And I would bet the owner of the mall could have singed an agreement saying no new coffee houses could move into the mall after Caribou moves in. But to force an existing tenet to move is ridiculous.
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