What Happens When Starbucks Invades?
Some this is rather dated material, and yet, it still hold up well. Unlike certain creeping, almost inevitable corporate take overs, like a new Wal-Mart, Starbucks is good for the entire food chain, so it seems.
Starbucks and Local Coffee
Want a thriving mom-pop store? Open a coffee shop next to a Starbucks.
Starbucks and Local Coffee
Then there’s the retail expert, but I have to wonder how much coffee shop experience the “expert” has when the advice is weighed against previous stories of a new Starbucks increases local business.

(Local Coffee in SA.)
Unrelated:
The Airstream Ranch, with a nod to the Cadillac Ranch?