Starbucks in Ethiopia

After seeing a Starbucks store inside The Forbidden City in Beijing, I didn't think I could ever again be shocked by Starbucks' globalisation efforts. I guess I was wrong.

Customers wait for their coffee outside a local Starbucks Coffee shop in Mekele March 12, 2007. Ethiopia, Africa's biggest coffee producer and the birthplace of coffee, accuses Starbucks of blocking its efforts to trademark its Sidamo and Harar beans

Source: Reuters

I think this is made worse because they are pushing bad American coffee to the very country from which coffee originated.