Starbucks

Starbucks will eventually sell alcohol in about 1,000 stores. And so it begins.

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Here’s the corporate version: “Anything that you see happening here is driven by the question: what is the customer looking for?” Starbucks spokesperson Alisha Damodaran told Quartz.“When we think about new product offerings in the stores, we always think about what… Continue Reading →

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McDonald’s and Starbucks, two staples of the busy Saturday running errands, are both experiencing a couple of problems

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Start on the Starbucks front: holiday foot traffic (i.e. people out-and-about in stores) was 1/2 in 2013 what it was in 2010; phrased another way, more people are shopping online — and that’s hurting adjacent stores in malls (i.e. Starbucks… Continue Reading →