{"podcast":{"title":"Desperate Acts of Capitalism Podcast","slug":"desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916","podcast_index_feed_id":700916,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:577716357/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://soundcloud.com/desperateactsofcapitalism","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-eowWGwnaevVLChsY-LvlmGw-original.jpg","author":"Desperate Acts of Capitalism Podcast","episode_count":79,"summary":"Desperate Acts of Capitalism is a comedy podcast …","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T08:19:50.098849+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916"},"episode":{"title":"61: Starbucks","slug":"61-starbucks","published_at":"2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916/61-starbucks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916","url":"https://soundcloud.com/desperateactsofcapitalism/61-starbucks","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1971918483-desperateactsofcapitalism-61-starbucks.mp3","summary":"Starbucks has been struggling as of late. On this episode, we explore what could give one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world a run for its money. Edited and thumbnail by Noah JOIN US ON PATREON FOR EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, BONUS CONTENT, AND MORE: www.patreon.com/desperateactsofcapitalism BIG THINGS ARE COMING Sources: https://www.joc.com/article/starbucks-coffee-co-sold-5642744 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4NL6evnD0 https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/a-grande-deal-for-starbucks-1112460.php https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-fi-diedrich15-story.html https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/lbs-case-study/story/how-starbucks-survived-the-financial-meltdown-of-2008-136126-2014-09-22 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/mar/24/netbytes.starbucks https://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2008/07/31/starbucks-what-went-wrong.html https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=5288740&page=1 https://www.thestar.com/business/starbucks-to-cut-1-000-jobs/article_41108cfa-acc6-55da-9849-fdfeaca69f28.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160104212729/http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/coffee/2009/03/03/no_more_layoffs_at_starbucks_s.html https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/mobile-payment-at-u-s-starbucks-locations-crosses-10-as-more-stores-get-wireless-charging/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-almost-comical-starbucks-is-blatantly-trying-to-crush-its-union/ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60312013","meta_description":"Starbucks has been struggling as of late. On this episode, we explore what could give one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world a run for its…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3271,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916/episodes/61-starbucks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916/61-starbucks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}