Starbucked

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I'm not really a critic of Starbucks. They serve perfectly tolerable sugar-milk-coffee beverages, and wherever you go, they probably have several locations conveniently nearby. Indeed, I just noticed one opened recently at Mayfair mall, here on the west-ish side of Milwaukee. The surprising thing about that is that the mall already has Starbucks, in the middle on the second floor, as well as the shop serving Starbucks-brand product in the Barnes and Noble bookstore. Now, thankfully, no one will have to walk more than one-quarter of the way through the mall to get to the nearest Starbucks coffee product. On the one hand, I guess we have to suppose that there is a lot of demand for coffee in the mall, and it's just wonderful that we are being serviced so efficiently. On the other hand, what the hell? Three??? In one building?