The 1,200-store question
"Can we get big and stay small?"
--Starbucks Coffee Co. Chairman Howard Schultz at last week's annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, where investors debated how the company can expand by 1,200 stores and still preserve its "homegrown" image
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