Starbucks makes bold move into rural, blue-collar market

Trendy cafe off Alabama highway seen as anomaly

By Patrik Jonsson

Globe Correspondent / October 18, 2005

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OXFORD, Ala. -- There's not even one customer inside the new Starbucks here in Oxford, a blue-collar burg in the northeast corner of Alabama, midway between Atlanta and Birmingham. But is this empty cafe a sign that the Seattle bean-roaster's bold new move into small towns and near interstate offramps is but spilt milk? (Full article: 632 words)