interesting article

I think this is fantastic. This type of information makes me all warm and fuzzy for American business schools and the business models they're teaching. I love seeing that there are corporations out there who understand that businesses should cater to the needs of the specific countries they're entering, provide services that are wanted, offer variety, have differing brands that are marketed within the greater umbrella, etc.

Thanks for sharing this.

I think this is fantastic. This type of information makes me all warm and fuzzy for American business schools and the business models they're teaching. I love seeing that there are corporations out there who understand that businesses should cater to the needs of the specific countries they're entering, provide services that are wanted, offer variety, have differing brands that are marketed within the greater umbrella, etc.

Thanks for sharing this.

This is only the one side of the coin... Don't forget we are talking about multinational companies, not small family business...
They don't do it because they respect our needs or our different cultures... the target is clearly our wallets!
And for sure their foods are not exactly what you would call "healthy"...
Read the article once again... or maybe just the titles...

"They Give you the Illusion of Choice"
"They Convinced us Water is Bad"

Sorry but I wouldn't call this fantastic....

1. They break down language barriers.

Nefarious! How dare their product name be understood around the globe.

2. They are mulitplying rapidly.

Oh noes. They have an in demand prouct. How dare they provide multiple outlets for said product.

3. They have economies bigger than countries

What? They've been economically sucessful? You mean more successful that some small country with little in the way of industry and exports? This should be illegal!

4. They feed our armies.

They have locations on military instillations? That should be a national security risk with all those whoppers being so readily available to unsuspecting service men and women.

5. They have absurd amounts of products.

Wait... so diversity is bad now?

6. They are bigger than religion.

Aww crap. They can make their product readily recognizable. That's gotta be a sin, right?

7. They give you the illusion of choice.

You mean one company can make different products? That shouldn't happen. Each company should only be able to produce one thing because that makes WAY more sense.

8. They'll change their product.

How dare they cater to the market their in. How dare they not have beef in countries where eating cows is sacrilegious. Being flexile is a bad thing now, I guess.

9. They convince us water is bad.

This one is so ridiculously stupid, I don't have anything snarky to say to it. It didn't work as the article claims since I regularly see people at eating establishment, including Olive Garden, drinking ice water (myself included).

10. They want to hire everyone!

You mean they want to staff their locations and manufacturing plants? Absurd.

TL;DR This was the dumbed 'interesting' article I've come across in a long time.

Of course busnisses try to make money...
And I I didn't say that small busnisses don't...
But there is huge difference on how they do it...
At the grocery store in my neighborhood for example I'm sure they care more about my needs because they know me and I know them!
It's not impersonal...
+ I give my money to a family that needs them to live.... not to some billionaires who already have much more than they need...

You may disagree... but not everyone live or think the same way...