FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL

HEAD: Starbucks Gets Pleas Not to Close Stores

Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to
shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large as New
York, customers and city officials are starting to write letters, place
phone calls, circulate petitions and otherwise plead with the coffee company
to change its mind.

"Now that it's going away, we're devastated," said Kate Walker, a facilities
manager for software company SunGard Financial Systems who recently learned
of a store closing in New York City.

It is an unusual twist in the saga of Starbucks, one of the fastest-growing
retailers of the past decade. For years, Starbucks gained attention when a
town didn't welcome it. Independent coffee shops complained about the
big-muscled competition, and residents bemoaned the erosion of local
character.

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