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	<title><![CDATA[Staying Real in an Instant]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-schultz/staying-real-in-an-instan_b_167381.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Today, we announced that Starbucks will introduce an instant coffee, providing our customers with great tasting Starbucks coffee, anywhere and anytime. Not surprisingly, this news raised some eyebrows and some cynics are asking, "Why go instant, Starbucks?"</p>

<p>There are numerous logical reasons: the significant size of the instant coffee market ($17B globally); the increasing mobility of consumers (imagine a cup of Starbucks VIA Ready Brew on a mountaintop); and, regardless of our ubiquity, that customers continue to tell us they want...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-02-17T10:05:00-05:00</date_published>
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