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Exposed! Starbucks goes undercover

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Seattle surely has more coffee shops per capita than any American city, so the arrival of another one would ordinarily not get much attention. But a newly-renovated coffee shop called 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is attracting interest—because it’s a Starbucks in disguise.

YOUR neighborhood coffeeshop is a Starbucks!

YOUR neighborhood coffeeshop is a Starbucks!

Crazy as it sounds, Starbucks, which has its headquarters in Seattle, operates 16,000 stores around the world and has spent countless millions to build its brand, is going undercover.

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