Will Espresso-Loving Italy Embrace Country’s First Starbucks?

Will Espresso-Loving Italy Embrace Country’s First Starbucks?
Employees work at the Starbucks store in Milan, Italy on Sept. 4, 2108. Luca Bruno/AP
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MILAN—Will the country that gave us espresso embrace the company that gave us grande Frappucinos?

Starbucks is about to find out as it opens its first store in Italy on Sept. 7. Residents of Milan, the city whose coffee bars inspired Howard Schultz’s vision for the chain decades ago, have mostly greeted the news with a shrug.