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“Our financial results are clearly being impacted by reduced frequency (of visits) to our U.S. stores”

Starbucks Corp said on Wednesday it would slash U.S. coffee store openings through 2011 to cut costs in the face of weak U.S. sales and to focus more on growth abroad. via Earth Times

Starbucks Corp. will unveil two new drinks on Wednesday, the company told the Wall Street Journal. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Actors drinking on screen will encourage youngsters to take up the habit. Scenes depicting alcohol consumption in films need to immediately stop”

After asking Bollywood actors not to smoke on screen, India’s health minister has called on movie heroes to stop drinking alcohol on camera, while hinting that the booze could stay in villains’ cups, a … via Palm Beach Post

It’s got to be good for something, right? That’s the question I had about instant coffee. via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

“He’d pick me up at 6 a.m. and I’d help him do the route. I was like a kid in the candy store.”

The days of milk delivery in Fergus Falls are nearly over, and rising gas and milk prices are to blame.

Quernemoen Dairy will cease operations on Wednesday, ending more than a half-century of service.

Brian Quernemoen has run the business for 22 years after taking it over from his father, LeRoy.

“I can’t compete with milk prices offered in the stores,” he said. “I feel bad my customers are paying more than they would in the grocery store.”

Quernemoen uses about a half tank of gas each day to deliver milk. Along with passing those costs onto customers, Quernemoen also had to factor in the rising cost of milk. Read more

“They are a better value, for one. With spirits, you can get 15 to 18 drinks out of a bottle; with wine, you can get only four or five.”

These days, the news from booze is very good indeed. In 2007, Americans spent more than $40 billion on spirits , and supplier revenue grew by almost 6 percent to more than $18 billion, according to the … via Reno Gazette-Journal

Posted online: Tuesday , April 29, 2008 at 07:45:52 Updated: Tuesday , April 29, 2008 at 07:45:52 Oslo, April 29: Norwegians will soon be able to help save the planet from global warming by savouring a glass of … via Express India

“You see the possibilities to pass some of the cost to prices”

The brewer of Stella Artois and Beck’s beer said Tuesday it was hiking prices to offset soaring costs for raw ingredients such as malt, barley and aluminum. via Slam Sports

Booms in Japan, particularly for drink and food, come and go, but its scotch whisky thirst has not been slaked over decades. via Reuters

“Up to two years aging can take place in one week, if temperatures exceed 40 degrees, or, if they get higher than 25 degrees for two to three weeks, as can happen in the Panama Canal”

As prices for Bordeaux wine reach ever more astonishing levels, chateaux owners are finally tackling the tricky, and long ignored, issue of shipping and transport conditions by testing a new temperature … via The Tocqueville Connection