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" The only thing... in-store retailing has that online doesn't have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience. "

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" I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve. "

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