Starbucks is coming to Jackson!!!

Well maybe not Jackson, but Starbucks CEO made the following comments during a NYT interview, regarding growth of the chain:

“We actually pour less than 7 percent of the U.S. coffee consumption. We announced that in 2006 we'd be opening 1,800 stores, 1,300 of them in the U.S. There are a lot of smaller rural areas we're going to be going to, as well as off-highway locations. And we're finding that opportunity still exists in mature markets. One of our highest-returning stores last year, based on first year return on investment, was in Seattle, one of our most mature markets.”