Starbucksification

English Etymology en :af Starbucks -ification + 1 1, named after the American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Noun - en derogatory The increased homogeneity of an area as a result of big business, to the detriment of local character and diversity. en 2004 The University of Chicago Magazine 97 18 In what might be seen as a move to promote salon-style discussions or a result of society's Starbucksification, a self-serve, push-button cappuccino, latte, and espresso machine came fall quarter to the Bartlett Dining Commons. en 2007 Tom Hodgkinson How To Be Free It leads to chainstores swallowing up individual enterprises; it leads to the phenomenon, recently labelled 'clone towns' in the UK, whereby every high street looks pretty much like every other high street. It leads to the Starbucksification of the world en 2012 Charles Landry The Art of City Making 127 The billboards were placed by an informal coalition of independent Louisville businesses – a protest against 'Starbucksification', sparked by the sale of Hawley-Cooke, Louisville's largest independent bookstore, to Borders in August 2003. See also en clone town