> Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation > SEATTLE–After a decade of aggressive expansion throughout North America and abroad, Starbucks suddenly

> Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation > SEATTLE–After a decade of aggressive expansion throughout North America and abroad, Starbucks suddenly and unexpectedly closed its 2,870 worldwide locations Monday to prepare for what company insiders are calling "Phase Two" of the company's long-range plan.... > Though the coffee chain's specific plans are not known, existing Starbucks franchises across the nation have been locked down with titanium shutters across all windows. In each coffee shop's door hangs the familiar Starbucks logo, slightly altered to present the familiar mermaid figure as a cyclopean mermaid whose all-seeing eye forms the apex of a world-spanning pyramid. http://www.theonion.com/article/starbucks-to-begin-sinister-phase-two-of-operation-416 http://www.theonion.com/article/starbucks-to-begin-sinister-...