Backed by loyal legions of heavily caffeinated customers, Starbucks over the past two decades has planted its green-and-white logo on mall parking lots and Main Streets ? sometimes twice in the same block ? from Maine to California.
During the early years of conquest, Starbucks showed up everywhere to offer the middle-class masses their fix of its dark-roasted brew along with cushy couches, sparkling bathrooms and smooth jazz. Now the company is offering more than just pumpkin-spiced concoctions. It has its own fixes for the economy, the environment and the health-care crisis. Starbucks, and its customers, used to look to the government to handle these kinds of matters. But faith in political institutions is collapsing, which gives Starbucks, a company never short on self-importance, the opening it needs.
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