That would depend on your indention of a 'culture'. Certainly from my viewpoint Starbucks is a business providing a service to people and not a culture. It is also a business that seems not to pay the taxes that some of its customers would expect it to. It may therefore find that it is no longer popular with these customers.
Poverty will always be a global socio-cultural issue. Many nations around the world don't have enough money to help their citizens.
Yes, there are some starbucks in Chicago.
Some carriers do have Starbucks on them, but not all.
health food/diet craze working women children as consumers early in life
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No, most Starbucks do not offer Sr. discounts, but some will offer Military Benefits.
A selective process that leads to some type of selection of reproductive traits, or a better sociocultural way of life. The glaring difference is that biological evolution is hard evolution ( physically heritable ), while sociocultural evolution is not. Sociocultural ' traits ' are generated by evolved human minds and are not sui generis.
At last count there were 16,635 franchises in the United States. Starbucks has some thoughts of some day surpassing McDonalds in franchise numbers.
Some forces are: Sociocultural, economic, technological, legal and regulatory
I would recommend a Starbucks travel mug. You can find some great ones here: http://Starbucks-gifts.com/Starbucks-travel-mug
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