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TOMAS OVALLE / FRESNO BEE FILE
A lone man sits talking on a phone Friday at an outdoor table at the Starbucks in Exeter. The Exeter store opened in the summer of 2006 and is scheduled to close.
Closing time ahead for Starbucks EXETER -- The only Starbucks store in the quaint town of Exeter is doomed -- tagged by the company as one of four outlets in the Valley to be shut as part of a nationwide cost-cutting move.


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