what market does starbucks operate in?
Cafe / Coffee Shop American food Bakery Delicatessen Bagels
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 In 2011 , the San Francisco Chronicle credited Argo as being the company that caused the 21st century tea shop revolution , while Time ran a story claiming that Argo has gotten America to drink tea . As of 2011 , the United States market had grown to over 3 @,@ 000 tearooms , according to the Tea Association of the USA . According to Beverage Digest , between 2006 and 2009 , coffee consumption declined 2 @.@ 3 percent in the United States , while tea consumption rose 4 @.@ 5 percent . The growth of teas has caused Starbucks to drop the word coffee from its name and build the Tazo brand . Starbucks had a total 2010 revenue of $ 9 billion , while the entire tea industry was $ 7 @.@ 7 billion , including $ 443 million by the top 6 U.S. tea chains . By early October 2011 , Argo claimed 26 locations in four cities ( Chicago , New York , Boston and St. Louis ) and distribution in 3 @,@ 000 grocery stores around the country including Whole Foods , Safeway and Dominick 's . 

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 By 2010 , the company eschewed its aspiration to be the Starbucks of tea , " Starbucks is more like Windows PC — it 's old , less healthy and designed for everyone — and we want to be more like Mac : young , healthy , cool and a more unique , innovative brand . " Avakian said the company hopes to build the Apple of tea . At the time , it was opening its 18th store ( 14 in Chicago and 4 in New York ) and had $ 10 million in annual sales , making it the largest chain focused on tea , according to Technomic Inc . 

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 Currently the company utilizes independent distributors such as Maines Paper and Food Service and Sysco for supplying North American stores with food and paper products . 

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 In its first years , the company sold illy brand coffee . While the company imports its teas from sources around the world , it now brews its teas at a centralized location in downtown Chicago . Argo started out selling loose tea in 1- and 4 @-@ ounce bags or in bulk . Among Argo 's Americanized drink varieties is a version of the national drink of both Argentina and Uruguay , the mate , which Argo serves as a Mate late . By 2010 , the company ventured into the grocery store market ( Whole Foods and Treasure Island ) with bottled specialty teas in Chicago and had plans for its own bottling facility . By the time the company opened its New York locations , it offered fair trade certified coffee . In 2011 , the company expanded its distribution to grocery stores around the country . 

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 An emigrant from his native Belgium , he arrived in the New York area in 1897 and dabbled in several technical fields before hitting upon instant coffee manufacture during a sojourn in Central America in 1906 or 1907 . He began selling his coffee in 1909 and founded a company to manufacture it in 1910 . Based in New York and New Jersey , his company prospered and became an important military supplier during World War I. The company 's products were also advertised in New York newspapers and on the radio . The success of his company made Washington wealthy , and he lived in a mansion in Brooklyn and then moved to a country estate in New Jersey in 1927 . In that same year , he lost a dispute with the tax authorities . Washington was married and had three children . 
