"little coffee shop that could"
It's my understanding that they gave up on the coffee shops in China idea. Supposedly thay had some special "in" in China. Guees not. I guess that's why I'm so disappointed. I saw that, and probably, like a lot of previous and would-be investors immediately thought of starbucks (apparently, now, former) glory days of seemingly limitless success and expansion.
Another starbucks snippet I just came across I think, in 'The Street' (sorry no link) :
"What to make of the news from Starbucks? The relentless expansion of the Seattle coffee chain was once a potent symbol of American consumer might; an old article from The Onion caught the zeitgeist with a mock headline that read,
“New Starbucks Opens in Rest Room of Existing Starbucks.”
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