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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Dunkin' Donuts pours on the competition]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/industry/" rel="tag">Industry</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/competitive-strategy/" rel="tag">Competitive Strategy</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/sbux/" rel="tag">Starbucks (SBUX)</a></p><img width="150" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="111" border="0" align="right" id="vimage_1" alt="Donuts" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2006/07/333745_doughnuts.jpg" />At one time Starbucks (<a title="SBUX: Starbucks Corp Quote, News &amp; Summary - AOL Money &amp; Finance" href="http://aolsvc.pf.aol.com/usw/quotes/quotesandnews?sym=SBUX&amp;exch=">SBUX</a>) and Dunkin' Donuts would have hardly seemed likely to be going after the same consumer dollar. But that is exactly the situation today, as<br /><a title="Dunkin` Donuts aims to triple in size" href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1181027.php/Dunkin%60_Donuts_aims_to_triple_in_size">Dunkin` Donuts aims to triple in size</a> -- expanding to an astounding 15,000 stores in North America. This move, which would give it more stores than SBUX, is designed to directly compete with the Seattle coffee giant. <br /><br />Evidently an upscaling of Dunkin' Donuts, in addition to the expansion, is the plan. But could this also be an indicator that Starbucks -- with its seeming strategy of a store on every corner -- is just another chain, the "McDonald's of coffee" that espresso purists have always claimed it is?<p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Dunkin' Donuts pours on the competition</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/">Dunkin' Donuts pours on the competition</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:33:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/643223/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/07/18/dunkin-donuts-pours-on-the-competition/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>coffee</category><category>Dunkin Donuts</category><category>DunkinDonuts</category><category>restaurant chain</category><category>RestaurantChain</category><category>retail</category><category>Sbux</category><category>Starbucks</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Canfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:33:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
