This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
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To the imbeciles who have been repeatedly egging a new Spring Garden coffee shop, do you really believe you are doing your noble part to resist corporate takeover? Have you any idea the positive changes that place has created for millions of low-wage wor
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I agree that the vandalism is rediculous and CEO’s certainly won’t be cleaning the mess up. However, please enlighten us about the positive changes? This isn’t a put down, I really don’t know what they are.All I see is a company exploiting their workers with an hourly wage too low to live off. Charging $2 for a coffee that probably cost 10 cents to produce. Do they sell fair-trade coffee? If not the poor saps in South America are getting the back of the hand too.Somebody is getting rich and it’s not the person who harvested the coffee beans or the person who poured the coffee and took my $2.
let’s not forget that if this is a bigger Corp – they get the tax breaks that the little coffee shops don’t – as well as all the large discounts from the food distributors. lets face it NS is set up for the big dog to get bigger and the little dogs to remain small.
Jeanne it’s called Capitalism and it’s not limited to NS … it’s global.
you know what, giant corporation or not, the punks who egg this place should be put in their place. While you argue about capitalism, there are home-grown problems right here in quaint little Halifax.