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Crumbl keeps growing its ranks of customers and critics

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Crumbl is the fastest-growing dessert chain as debates on social media and elsewhere break out over whether the company’s cookies are great or awful. The company, which claims to sell nearly a million cookies daily, has opened 750 stores over the past six years.

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