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There are now 4 Starbucks in my little town of 28,000 people and ...
a 5th one on the way. The four existing are within 2 miles of each other.
The town leaders and some residents are up in arms about these "big box business" and have set limits on how many they'll allow in the future. They'd rather have vacant retail/office spaces, of which there are numerous, than have big business open up on our main street.
The town I live in bills itself as a "Main Street USA" kind of town so we've had a moratorium on new residences, apartment complexes, master planned communities for decades now. Problem is, our downtown is dead when compared to similar sized communities. Great thing is we have no traffic unlike Walnut Creek, Lafayette, etc.
I have no problem with Starbucks. I would've preferred a Peet's Coffee and Noah's Bagels though.
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