Caribou is a chain out of Minneapolis &#x2F; St Paul (the &quot;Twin Cities&quot;), if I recall correctly.  I&#x27;m not saying they were particularly good.  What I meant was, Peet&#x27;s was somewhat better, bought out their local locations, and announced that Peet&#x27;s shops were coming.  Instead, in Dad&#x27;s location, they got another Dunkin Donuts.  Overall, I&#x27;ve not heard of Peet&#x27;s actually opening stores in any of the locations they purchased.<p>I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s behind all that.  But the end result has not been an improvement in product&#x2F;choice, in our area.<p>Anyway... I wouldn&#x27;t have mentioned it, except there was the OP about the Keurig deal.  My personal perspective is that if and as Peet&#x27;s was once a well-regarded set of shops in the Bay area, it&#x27;s quite another thing, now.  As such, Keurig deals and the like not only don&#x27;t excite me, they engender an actively negative reaction.<p>Perhaps that says something about putting growth before quality.