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Article: Donuts? Here's the hole ... er, whole ... story.(NEWS)(JAMES LILEKS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 10, 2008
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Byline: JAMES LILEKS; STAFF WRITER
Perhaps you've read rapturous stories about the return of Dunkin' Donuts to the Twin Cities. Wow! Donuts? And coffee? Where do we queue? It's good news -- but on the other hand, our time-travel news-retrieval system has produced this dispatch from the future: (Mpls) Aug. 10, 2013: The last Dunkin' Donuts closed today, quietly closing out an era that began with great fanfare in 2008 when the company returned to the Twin Cities market after five years.
"We see an opportunity," a company spokesman had said, citing the departure of Starbucks and Krispy Kreme, which "not only left a hole in the area's donut options but had sprinkled the ...
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