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To: Oblomov who wrote (9987)	8/10/2000 11:43:22 AM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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.