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05-01-2008, 03:50 PM | #8 |
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Location: State College, PA
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Howard Schultz sat back and let McD's and DD take the lead in total coffee sales...now that he's back as CEO he's: adding new food items, bringing in the Clover, new drip coffee, grinding beans in the store, new espresso machines, getting out of the music business, begin selling smoothies and Italian iced drinks & closed 71,000 stores to teach staff how to foam milk.
He fell asleep at the wheel! I do indeed hate Charbuck$, but I also own a GREAT deal of their stock. They've done a great deal of good for the industry, but they've also screwed up...time after time they've ignored the competition. While overall coffee sales are up on the West coast, SB's sales are in the toilet We've got a former SVP of Charbuck$ who lives 2 blocks from our store (K. Dees Coffee and Roasting Co), he's in the store a couple times a week and has clued me into some of their biggest mistakes, throw out wonderful advise and guidance. Our customers love our space, coffee and staff. They've told me more times than I can count on how good the coffee is (better than SB's), how clean the bathrooms are and how the trash isn't overflowing. SB's seems like it's being crushed under it's own weight.
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