Starbucks scolded for Stifing Competition (2006) and Jahmel Rol Based on paper by Ben Kapin Summary by Katie Eckert the leading coffee company in Starbucks is very well known and also considered to be into over the world. Starbucks was originally started as one store but has since developed rapidly within 17,000 stores in many different countries and is expected to grow more and more continually the next few years Starbucks originated in Seattle, Washington in 1971. They are against putting more and more smaller coffee shops out of business, Starbucks had a lawsuit them for using anti-competitive tactics to get rid of their competitors. Starbucks employees uld hand out free samples of their own coffee right outside of the small coffee shops in their neighborhoods, gaining more business and profit for themseives. They would try to buyout all other coffee shops near them. They would also sign leases for 3 times as much as the market value so that landlords wouldn't rent other coffee sellers. One example was a small coffee shop in Boston, MA had been running for 25 years when all of a sudden their property manager would not renew their lease however, the next renters of that property was Starbucks. This does not seem like a coincidence. Kapinos and Rollins wntes. Trying to buyout her company so there was no other competition on the block". This was one of the examples of what Starbucks was doing to small companies when the lawsuit was filed These actions and procedures by Starbucks are very unethical according to the utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue theories. The only theory starbucks would be considered ethical under would be the individualism theory. According to the individualism theory Starbucks would be considered ethical because everything that they are doing and the actions that are taking out are to maximize their profits. Individualism would consider Starbucks to be ethical in every way because they are substantially gaining profits by expanding their business and making more and more Starbucks' around the world. They are gaining and not losing any profit in doing what they are doing; therefore this is ethical under this theory. lf you look at this from a Utilitarianism point of view Starbucks' actions would be unethical due to the fact that small coffee stores give more to the people of the towns they are located than a Starbucks does. Many people love the idea of a small local coffee shop in their towns with reasonably priced coffee. Some people would be happy with a Starbucks instead of their smau coffee shop but the majority of people enjoy their local coffee shops.I believe that even as a person who loves Starbucks you wouldn