Boring Market

Today was a groundbreaking day for Starbucks, they had their most important and inspiring annual shareholder meeting to date. Howard Shultz was upfront and honest with the past year and the lagging sales due to the slowing economy while being optimistic about the future. I was able to attend this year’s meeting and watch […]

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Yesterday, Starbucks decided to close most of the stores across the country for three hours for Espresso Excellence re-training. They hoped to accomplish common ground for all partners (employees) with the back-to-basics approach by reinstating standards and policies. These milk and espresso standards were drastically changed to ensure the perfect hand-crafted espresso beverage. […]

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