starbucks-economy

id: title: Starbucks, monetary superpower slug: starbucks-economy date: 2019-08-25 7:31:00 AM format: Narrative url: http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/08/starbucks-monetary-superpower.html duration:

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.