Taste Holdings sold its 13 Starbucks stores for $464,000 — less than one flagship cost
Taste Holdings brought Starbucks to sub-Saharan Africa in 2016, planned 150–200 stores, paused at 13, and exited the food business entirely in November 2019.
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