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	<title>Behind the Buck - Starbucks - Barista - Employees</title>
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	<description>Behind the Scenes Serving Americas Favorite Coffee</description>
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		<title>Starbucks 40,000 store target</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks already has over 12,000 stores worldwide, but it;'s expanding rapidly, adding an average of six new stores every day. Starbucks' goal is to saurate markets without cannibalizing existing stores through what the company calls market in-fill. In other words, if the lines are too long at the Starbucks store at one end of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/11/11/starbucks-40000-store-target/</link>
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		<title>Going head to head with Starbucks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks is opening its sixth store in Lodi, California, and this time across the street from a popular House of Coffees establishment, according to Lodi News. As is often the case, the move has created some angst among locals.

Do you know of any example where Starbucks competes head to head with an independent coffee house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/11/11/going-head-to-head-with-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a venti takeover: Starbucks buys 40 Coffee People stores from Diedrich Coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks has bought 40 Coffee People stores for $13.5 million from West Coast competitor Diedrich Coffee, which is exiting the tough coffee retail market to focus on its wholsesale and franchising businesses.

The Oregonian reports the reaction of Coffee People's original founder:

"Starbucks owning Coffee People? I never thought that would happen," said Jim Roberts, who now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/15/its-a-venti-takeover-starbucks-buys-40-coffee-people-stores-from-diedrich-coffee/</link>
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		<title>International investment bank RBC Capital Markets is bullish on Starbucks because of the global expansion opportunities that still exist.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Reeevs on Forbes.com writes about RBC Capital Markets' "outperforming" rating for Starbucks:

"Large international growth opportunities remain, such as China, India, Brazil and Russia," wrote RBC analyst Larry Miller in a new research report. "We also see same store sales growth within the company's targeted 3% to 7% annual range."

The analyst said Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/14/international-investment-bank-rbc-capitalmarkets-is-bullish-on-starbucks-because-of-the-global-expansion-opportunities-that-still-exist/</link>
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		<title>Enter: The Lawyer. Starbucks Coupon Drama Reaches Lawsuit Stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's no business like tort business!  Starbucks somewhat less than brilliantly thought aout and hastily abandoned coupon promotion has now become what it was destined to become: A lawsuit! Hurrah for lawsuits! Nothing is really real until it has spawned a lawsuit and this one could become the Top Dog of lawsuits, namely a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/14/enter-the-lawyer-starbucks-coupon-drama-reaches-lawsuit-stage/</link>
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		<title>Good News and Bad News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean's day didn't start off so hot with *another* speeding ticket, but he was pleased to see the big yellow supervisor training manual waiting for him when he got to his store. ]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/06/good-news-and-bad-news/</link>
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		<title>Pumpkin Spice Latte at Home - Vegan Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rusty isn't happy that even when you order your Starbucks pumpkin spiced latte with soy, the drink still has some ingredients that are "derived from cow milk." 

What is a vegan to do? 

Rusty shows us how to make it at home. ]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/06/pumpkin-spice-latte-at-home-vegan-style/</link>
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		<title>Starbucks Coupon Drama Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure Starbucks is ready to put this to bed, but Tamara puts together 3 lessons that Starbucks should take from the debacle.

Jennifer has some suggestions as well.

Key take away points?

1.) Never ever EVER launch a viral marketing campaign if you aren't willing and able to scale to the level required by a successful campaign.

2.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/06/starbucks-coupon-drama-continues/</link>
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		<title>Starbucks Unionizing Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Canfield spells out the basics of the unionizing effort at Starbucks.  

He also updates that "workers in a Logan Square store declared their wish to be represented by the IWW just before the Labor Day holiday weekend. "

Find out more about the Chicago unionizing effort. ]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/06/starbucks-unionizing-update/</link>
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		<title>Oops - Starbucks Email Coupon Drama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DMNews gives us the lowdown on the Starbucks email coupon debacle in Atlanta.

Coffee giant Starbucks pulled an e-mail offering to its employees after distribution got out of hand. 

The e-mail called "Try your coffee” offered customers a free Grande beverage between noon and 9 p.m. through Sept. 30. The small print directed customers to print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behindthebuck.com/2006/09/03/oops-starbucks-email-coupon-drama/</link>
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