I can say I've never been in a Starbucks, other than passing them in a couple of grocery stores I visit (I'm mainly a tea drinker), and have never bought anything from them, but they must be popular... From MSNBC/AP:
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MSNBC said:
SEATTLE - Fewer U.S. customers led to lower sales and venti-sized costs for closing poorly performing stores hurt profit in the fourth quarter at Starbucks Corp., the company said Monday. The quarter’s results came at the end of a transition year for the coffee retailer, in which former Chief Executive Howard Schultz took back the reins of the company to again fill the CEO and chairman posts. Seattle-based Starbucks said profit in the quarter fell 97 percent to $5.4 million, or a penny a share, from $158.5 million, or 21 cents per share. The coffee retailer earned 10 cents per share when the costs from closing about 600 stores in the U.S. and 61 locations in Australia are excluded.

But - That will hurt the tea industry, so I guess that won't help... 
