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Ugly Christmas Gifts From Starbucks

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24/7 Wall St. continued its ongoing evaluations of Starbucks stores, this times visiting a number of locations in Manhattan.

A few of the special Christmas gifts from the coffee retailer:

1. Dirty toilets. It would not be too very hard for employees to clean up every once in a while.

2. No spoons. Starbucks will sell customers food that must be eaten with a spoon but will have no spoons in the store to eat it. It cannot be hard to anticipate how many spoons are needed to cover daily traffic.

3. No peppermint. Buy a peppermint drink, popular this time of year, and find out that a store has none of it.

4. Lines which are too long. Some customers walk in and walk out. The wait is not worth it.

5. No seats. A large number of the Starbucks in places with heavy traffic have too few seats to accommodate even a small number of people.

6. No food. Some stores run out of the most popular food items early in the day

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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