Consider this mind-boggling statistic that I culled from the company’s statement last week about its Chinese ambitions: Starbucks is opening more than 500 stores a year there — which amounts to more than one new store a day. Starbucks is creating some 10,000 jobs in China annually. In Shanghai alone, there are already 600 stores.
From a New York Times story by Andrew Ross Sorkin
From Beijing to Qinhuangdao, from Shanghai to Pudong,
If you’re selling java then you can’t go very wrong.
Starbucks is expanding like a Mongol horde set free,
Flooding ev’ry village square with cups of sweet coffee.
All the tea in China, not to mention Mandalay,
Will not stop the march towards gulping down a thick latte.
And not only do the Starbucks offer coffee on the cheap;
They also offer housing stipends and health care upkeep.
The pay is good, the hours firm, and parents get discounts --
Is it any wonder they make dough in large amounts?
You can raise a fam’ly on your Starbucks salary
In China -- while here in the States it still means poverty!
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