Looking down the Fall Line

Posts made in January 16th, 2007

Cold outside? How about some Starbucks?

Posted by on Jan 16, 2007 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Upon further examination, I realized that most of the fealing of horror that I'm experiencing comes not from the huge number itself, but from the fact that I'm not at all surprised by this finding.People across the rest of the country are coming to this same conclusion. Find your own Starbucks density here.For some comparison, there are 99 stores within a 5 mile radius of my old apartment on Capitol Hill. Even this figure pales in comparison to some of the major urban areas.While I'm generally in favor of capitalism and agree with most of the tenants of a free market economy, this is just beyond crazy.

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