There are many differences between local owned businesses and big corporations. Our commonweal team went to downtown Winston to observe and investigate these dissimilarity's.
We went to star bucks coffee to compare large business to small business, service was slow and the workers did not seem to care for the happiness of their customers.
Leaving starbucks and acknowledging the
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Krankies had better service and store hours than Starbucks, it is open at least 12 hours everyday and thursday-saturday it is open 24/7, while the latest Starbucks is open till is 5p.m.. The differences between these two company's are staggering. We believe that the reason for this is that Starbucks has many locations all over the world, while Krankies must struggle to survive. Social capital would definitely be increased if more time was spent at local businesses such as Krankies in a community. Doing this gives local people jobs, and a place like Krankies brings people together through concerts, poetry readings, or just a nice cup of coffee.
I think Krankies would have more social capital than any Starbucks because although it is only a local thing(maybe what, two Krankies in the world?) more people come together and chat about life. It also inspires musicians..at Starbucks, all you can find is a bunch of pissed people waiting in line for a something-accino to satisfy their caffeine addiction.
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We agree with your conclusions. Krankies is pretty much built for the purpose of social capital. People don't go to Krankies just to get a cup of coffee and leave (i.e. Starbucks). It actually seems that Krankies is against that sort of thing - they have a whole separate stage for community events (as you said, concerts, poetry readings, etc.) and they don't even have a drive-thru.
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