Coffee clash

In Dorchester, MA store, Starbucks faces off with Dunkin' Donuts
By Donovan Slack, Boston Globe Correspondent, 3/5/2004

The fashionable teardrop lamps and eggplant-on-harvest gold paint schemes are the same, as are the tastefully abstract prints on the wall and the caramel macchiatos being served up by barristas in signature green aprons. Yet something is unusual about the latest Starbucks to open in Boston. Its neighbors include a junk company, a row of used-car lots, the Plumbers and Gasfitters Local. This is the industrial heart of Dorchester, Dunkin' Donuts territory.

"Starbucks in a Dunkin' Donuts world," marveled a cashier named Karen at the South Bay Center Target store where the new Starbucks opened this week.

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