The Starbucks model in an Australian market
home made flat white made by me
Starbucks entered the Australian market in July 2000. At its peak, it had a total of 81 stores nation wide. Now it’s stores have been reduced to just 23 and out of the 4 outlets in Canberra, there is not one store left for the Canberra population.
I have read John Simmon’s book: My Sister’s a Barista: How they made Starbucks a home away from home and from reading it, you get the impression that Starbucks could do no wrong; their business model is almost flawless and can only grow from strength to strength.
The book was published in 2005 and a lot has happened since then. There is no doubt that Starbucks is an incredible story of innovation, niche markets and successful chain operations.
Something happened in Australia though. I didn’t quite work out. Read the rest of this entry »
Weird occurences in Word Press
I’m a happy user of the open source wordpress software for blogging but there are two issues I have with it.
- Posts get published with the created date instead of the final published date
- A post that was in my drafts got accidentally deleted without being prompted before continuing.
A big annoyance as I had put in a lot of time into this article.
It seems that I will now have to learn to use external blog editors to handle my writing as the web interface is just too risky.
Has anyone else had these problems?
