Move Over, Coffee: With Tazo Store, Starbucks Aims to Reinvent Tea
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Is Starbucks (SBUX) about to do for tea what it’s done for the cup of joe?
With the launch of Tazo, its first tea-only store, the coffee giant is aiming to turn tea into the Next Big Thing. “We want to elevate the premium tea experience and grow the tea category, just as we’ve done for coffee,” said Holly Hart Shafer, Starbucks communications manager. The store is set to open in October in Seattle, the heart of coffee country.
Tazo–named for the Starbucks-owned brand that is also sold in…
Move Over, Coffee: With Tazo Store, Starbucks Aims to Reinvent Tea originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-06-22T13:20:00Z.
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