JTN: Bearing the official emblem of Starbucks on the sign outside, Baghdad’s unlicensed Starbucks is illegally selling coffee and merchandise in Iraq from the international chain.
Starbucks sued to stop the three illegally operating cafes in Baghdad over trademark violations, but the owner of the unlicensed stores allegedly threatened Starbucks lawyers, halting the case, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
“I had this ambition to open Starbucks in Iraq,” the owner of the three knockoff Starbucks, Amin Makhususi, said in September.
He said Starbucks’ regional agent based in Kuwait denied him a license for an official coffee shop, and his contacts in the United States could not help him reach the chain.
“I decided to do it anyway, and bear the consequences,” he said. more here
Well, WE have a fake president, so we ain’t got any right to tell OTHER people to be real, now, DO we?
@Just Saying, had to give you a like just for your incredible ability to read my mind.
There’s a fake war in Ukraine, being used as a money laundering operation. It’s all fucked up.
I don’t go to real Starbucks in America. And I certainly won’t be going to one in iraq.
Who cares?
Whay aren’t there any Walmart’s in Muslim countries in the Middle East? Because they’re all Targets.
We paid for that.
Starbucks is worthless, bitter swill in my humble opinion. Let the middle easterners drink all they want of it… So that the really good coffee is left for Americans!
I bet you can Smoke a Hookah Pipe with your coffee and RELAX like a real human being without staring at a freak of nature with 3/4 inch bolt washers in its ears.
Do they charge 5 bucks for a crappy cup of coffee?
“… threatened Starbucks lawyers, halting the case …”
Well, now, there’s a novel approach to maggot lawyers.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …