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Final Note

Remember CD’s? Yeah, Starbucks is done selling those.

Kai Ryssdal Feb 20, 2015
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Final Note

Remember CD’s? Yeah, Starbucks is done selling those.

Kai Ryssdal Feb 20, 2015
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Billboard reported this week that Starbucks is going to stop selling compact discs in its stores come March.

There was a time, Billboard says, when Starbucks was doing $65 million a year in CD sales.

But no more, because — and here comes the line of the day — they’re gonna stop selling what no one listens to music on anymore anyway.

 

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