Starbucks Challenging Germany’s Kaffeehaus

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A Portland, Oregon native now living in Berlin wonders why in the world Germans would buy coffee from the Seattle-based Starbucks chain.

As Miriam Widman reports, Starbucks is pledging more stores but isn’t doing as well as they’d hoped.

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