Starbucks, monetary superpower

Annotation by Deane Barker • •
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/08/starbucks-monetary-superpower.html
Narrative

Starbucks has created a closed economy of gift cards and app purchases that it controls. It essentially has a secondary income stream of loaning money to its own customers as a specialty private bank.

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