{"id":1790,"date":"2005-12-04T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/12\/04\/starbucks-challenge-30\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T14:52:00","slug":"starbucks-challenge-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/starbucks-challenge-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbuck&#8217;s Challenge 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose the main reason I haven&#8217;t been a big participant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlagirl.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/starbucks-challenge.html\">Starbuck&#8217;s <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cityhippy.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/feature-starbucks-challenge.html\">Challenge<\/a> is that I hardly ever visit Starbuck&#8217;s &#8212; local shops are more convenient, even walkable in one case, and they do much better in terms of selling Fair Trade coffee. 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