On his weblog, Jason Kottke picked up on the idea of finding addresses with maximum “Starbucks Density” and hundreds of commenters report on the number of stores in their neighborhood. [kottke ^[1]] It’s fun to see people trying to establish café credibility and sort of upsetting to find that Seattle’s not especially competitive in the stores in a five-mile-radius category (e.g. 87 stores in my area vs. 169 in downtown Manhattan).

However, we are still blessed in the stores per caffeinated person department with one for every 13,340 people [columbia news service ^[2]]. Breathe a sigh of relief folks, we’re not completely washed-up in the coffee universe.

Calculate your MSD using the Starbucks Retail Store Locator Device [starbucks ^[3]]