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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed
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To: Oblomov who wrote (9987)8/10/2000 11:43:22 AM
From: pater tenebrarum  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
<<The increase, the cappuccino king's first North American-wide boost in 15 months, would help defray rising operational costs including rent and wages, Starbucks spokesman Alan Gulick said.

``We face ongoing increases in staffing costs, occupancy costs and other costs associated with the purchase and delivery of our goods and services,'' Gulick said.>>

this Gulick dude must be hallucinating...doesn't he ever read the government's glowing (non-)inflation reports?
they should hedonically and seasonally adjust their input costs, they'd hurt only half as bad...just divide input costs by computer processing speeds...voila.
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