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Listening to the news on CNBC we learned there are 1,100 Starbucks stores in Shanghai, China. That’s a lot of stores, but there are millions of people to serve in the city, 29,868,000 (2024)! That’s one store for every 29,868 people in the city. All of a sudden the number of stores seems to be less significant.

The latest we could find (2017) there are less than 40 stores in Montana, about 1 million people in the State, so the store to resident ratio ends up being about the same as Shanghai municipality, one store for every 29,220 people.

Montana, one store per 3,676 square miles Shanghai, one store per 2.2 square miles. Those numbers give things a little different perspective. -bb

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