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Coffee Buzzards: Falling Off The Starbucks (Band)wagon

By Paul Sullivan on July 7, 2008

Everybody’s talking about Starbucks lately.

And it’s not the kind of buzz the Seattle-based corporate cafe is trying to generate.

It’s trash talk in the wake of Starbucks' announcement that it plans to close 600 stores or 10% of its US outlets.

There was a time when Starbucks was cool. It is the prototype for the modern café: espresso-fueled foamy beverages...
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