With the company facing falling same-stores sales, Starbucks (SBUX) is slowing its aggressive stores expansion, hitting the brakes on new cafes and recently closing hundreds of existing ones, Gregory Meyer of The Financial Times reports. The pullback has created bad blood between the company and the real estate industry as Starbucks refuses to move into some custom-built stores.
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