On 2006-12-16 14:19:49 -0800, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:

> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>> On 2006-12-16 05:54:09 -0800, "Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> said:
> 
>>> Lotte is also behind the arrival of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Tokyo.
> 
>> If they arrived already, have they begun closing down. I'll give them a 
>> year.  I think those things are stunningly horrible.  Particularly as 
>> some Japanese chains some fabulous pastries.
> 
> Echos what the Japanese bureaucracy was saying about McDonald's before
> they opened there, and Starbucks.

Krispy Kreme has imploded in the US, for good reasons I think. This 
implies they'll be successful in Japan?
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