Tidbit about continental Europe: I think here this role is rather served by restaurants since people tend to have 1-1.5h proper lunches which get used a lot as networking opportunities to meet with interesting parties. Most of my LinkedIn messages are to set up lunch plans.
Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
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Lol. I wonder if ikea cafes are similar to the restaurants in ikea. I was under the impression they were subsidized. Additionally, they are a "trap" - easy to enter, but exiting requires you to walk the gauntlet of products for sale downstairs.
Every IKEA might be different, so YMMV, but there usually are (sometimes well-hidden) shortcuts.
IKEA regularly shuffles around it's layout. They won't let you learn shortcuts and exploit experience.
I learnt this the hard way several times in my local IKEA, but I also read an article about how this is absolutely strategic in their thinking. Unfortunately I couldn't find it to back me up.
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There are solutions for this. In Italy they charge you for the seat. I have been to places where they charge for a laptop too. In addition you can minimize cellular network reception and charge for wifi.
The last thing is not legal in the US. Marriott got in trouble with the FCC over this. https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/travel/marriott-fcc-wi-fi-fin...
Actively. You can however consider it when choosing a location (although obviously, the mobile network providers can make changes outside your control which might change your 'USP').
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Every business is optimised for profit. This is why they exist. Difference is that Starbucks probably can be profitable operating as a kiosk but a mom and pop store can't because it lacks brand value.
Not necessarily. For now, every business is run by a human being, not AI, so all of the small mom and pop businesses optimize for the whims of the businesses owner. Got that one vendor with the sales person that they like more than the other vendor's because they were rude? Guess who's winning the contract with no oversight? Mom or pop tired today? They're not optimizing for profit, they're taking a nap. Mom feel bad…
If so, it is natural that those businesses go under.
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#106Wait, aren't third places public places? Like, squares or parks? I thought commercial establishments were second places.
A generation of Americans have no idea what the commons is.
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#107Unfortunately, Starbucks is opening “kiosk only” locations with no seating that, obviously, fail to function as a third place. My partner finished up a medical appointment and was waiting for me to arrive, and decided to stop in Starbucks. Oops, just a kiosk. The options left for a “third place” was a petrol station that had seating and a grocery store. Somehow I don’t think petrol station seating areas will promotin…
> Unfortunately, Starbucks is opening “kiosk only” locations with no seating that, obviously, fail to function as a third place. And when they convert an existing location to kiosk only, the prices do not go down. There are two Starbucks locations in downtown Redwood City, about 250m apart. The one on the right side of the tracks has comfortable seating and tables. The one on the wrong side of the tracks, in the dyin…
It may be that they converted the location to kiosk to avoid raising the prices, given that California recently raised their operating costs by a significant amount. So the prices did go down in a sense.
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#108Wait, aren't third places public places? Like, squares or parks? I thought commercial establishments were second places.
Not really , no, squares don't really exist in neighborhoods, and parks are almost as rare.
Not in Europe, they exist. I'm from the Netherlands, you can find public third places.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily. For now, every business is run by a human being, not AI, so all of the small mom and pop businesses optimize for the whims of the businesses owner. Got that one vendor with the sales person that they like more than the other vendor's because they were rude? Guess who's winning the contract with no oversight? Mom or pop tired today? They're not optimizing for profit, they're taking a nap. Mom feel bad…
If so, it is natural that those businesses go under.
Over optimized corps are usually going down sooner or later. Look at Bell or at the living corpses of IBM, Oracle and Boeing. The problem is they are getting propped up by governments around the globe and their fear of impeding doom if their old supplier shits the bed.
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#110“third place” is just starbucks marketing jargon. this article is an ad.