Might just be a market correction. Starbucks is certainly reaching a saturation point and this might just be a natural reaction. - John Denver
maybe they should do what Disneyland did when they plateaued in 1994...come out w/ all you can drink passports!!! $40 all you can drink (except holidays) - Pokai
Wow - 600 sounds like a lot of stores - Wayne Schulz
Just don't close the one on the way home from my work. pretty please? - Marianne Lenox
I don't think Starbucks really thinks about where they put stores. We have 3 in a less than 3 mile radius and 2 of those stores were built within the last year. - Heidi Hansen
In Vancouver, they had two stores across the street from each other! - Pokai
In Bellevue, WA there are 8 stores within a 2 block radius - Rick Huizinga
Not the economy, simply the hubris of a company that thinks it is cooler than it really is. - Sean Oliver