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Reality Bites Starbucks Fantasy

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 6, 2009 3:41 PM CST

(Newser) – Many Americans fantasized of tuning in, dropping out, and working at Starbucks, Mary Schmich writes in the Chicago Tribune, but that dream died with the economic slowdown. “Starbucks was the great American backup plan,” Schmich writes. “The emergency exit. The parachute,”...   Read full story »

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