Starbucks update: Progress? You tell me

http://greenlagirl.blogspot.com [green LA girl] I'm not a coffee drinker, when I go to Starbucks I'm much more likely to get the hot caramel cider (mmmmmmm), but I'm thinking, perhaps you're missing something simple in wondering why the responses to your requests are so uniform. The responses you seem to recieve most often, listing whats brewing and charging for venti, are what I would expect of any small business owner when presented with a special and (to him/her inconvenient) request.

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Posted at October 25, 2005 06:55 PM

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