"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:

Starbucks sells lousy coffee.

Shhhhh! Really; next thing you know, Bert, you'll be announcing that
the Emperor has no clothes!

The sad truth about Starbucks is that it is now too big to serve
quality coffee.

Someone at the company's got a sense of humor, though. A few years back,
NPR's April Fool news story involved a huge pipeline Starbucks was building
from coast to coast, to deliver a slurry of coffee beans and water to each
store, where they'd be roasted. They interviewed Starbucks people. They
interviewed the governor of Montana (really) who explained how the state was
going to help rush the legal matters, like easements through farmland where
owners needed to understand that a broken pipeline would be harmless. They
interviewed some guy from a pipeline maintenance company (a real one), who
explained the technology that would be used to detect pipeline breaks.

The story sounded pretty good until they said that Starbucks' next goal was
to deliver fresh roasted beans to individual homes, using an arrangement
like the vacuum tubes used to send messages. Then, it got silly.