NY Post -If you want to read the paper at Starbucks, you’ll have to start bringing your own. Beginning Sept. 1, the Seattle-based coffee giant will no longer sell The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or USA Today at its more than 8,600 shops nationwide, Media Ink has learned.
According to a source, Starbucks is trashing newspapers partly because of a chronic problem with “shrinkage” — industry lingo for lost and stolen goods.
Starbucks has been selling the papers in its stores for nearly two decades, starting with the Times in 2000 and expanding to add the Journal and USA Today in 2010. But many Starbucks customers take them off the rack, read them while they finish their lattes, and then either leave them on the table or walk off with the daily paper without paying.
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