http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-karma-22553952 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:06:04 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:06:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-karma-22555429 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)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-karma-22555429 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:15:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-karma-22554882 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!)
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Canada = Hollywood North]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-karma-22554882 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:43:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/karma-22553952
Imagine if you owned a Starbucks franchise (doesn't actually exist), then corporate opened up a Kiosk in the park across from you, then opened up one in the supermarket 3 doors away from you, then opened another one in the Target 5 doors in the other direction, then opened another one at the closest intersection at a new shopping center, then put out sales reps in mascot costumes to stand in front of your store directing people to the corporate Starbucks a few doors down.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/karma-22553952 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:35:43 EDT