Love ‘em or hate ‘em (the Beetle prefers Café Nero in London,) Starbucks is coming to town. Starbucks is planning to increase its long-term store expansion target to 40,000 outlets around the world, more than triple the existing number. They currently have 12,000 global outlets, and envisage that half of the planned 40,000 stores will be in the US and the other half overseas – they are aiming to expand into China, India, Egypt, Brazil and Russia.