Starting this week, burn a CD at Starbucks.



Strange. But intriguing.



Here's a deal: Sip on a mocha latte while using headphones to listen to any of 250,000 songs you call up on a computer. Then order the ones you like -- burned on your own CD -- to go. Who's the dealer? Starbucks.



On Mar. 16, the Seattle coffee giant unveiled an in-store music service allowing customers to do just that [...] The first musical Starbucks opens in Santa Monica, Calif., and the service will expand into 2,500 stores over the next two years. 'This is not a test,' says Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. 'We're going for it.' "



BW Online | March 16, 2004 | Starbucks Tunes In to Digital Music: