Not only will the new year see fewer new Starbucks locations, the era of breakfast sandwiches is over: "Starbucks Corp. unveiled the first moves of Chief Executive Howard Schultz's turnaround plan, saying it would cut by 350 the net number of locations it plans to add this year while halting sales of hot breakfast sandwiches because their smell interferes with the aroma of coffee." To recap, aromas—not crappy sales—did those sausage-egg concoctions in. [Wall Street Journal]
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