It has been one year since 24/7 Wall St. looked at over 40 Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Texas to New York. Since then, the company has replaced its CEO with the company’s…
Try to get a Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) at 3 AM. No such luck. But, according to data given to us by McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), more than 30% of its 13,700 US stores…
It has been one year since 24/7 Wall St. looked at over 40 Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Texas to New York. Since then, the company has replaced its CEO with the company’s…
According to Reuters, Alcoa (AA) profits fell by half due to high energy costs and a weak dollar. Retuers reports that AMD (AMD) cut guidance and will lay-off 10% of its staff.…
Perhaps Starbucks (SBUX) has managers who cover small regions of 100 stores each or "spies" from market research companies who visit a certain percent of all the coffee chain’s outlets each month.…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been a disappointment recently. Same-store sales in the US slowed over the last couple of quarters. The company pushed down its guidance. Founder Howard Schultz kicked out his…
At yesterday’s annual meeting Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), said he would fix the company or die with his boots on. He may wanted to be fitted for an extra…
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is holding its annual shareholder meeting today (playing right now), and with shares having slid more than 50% from highs it can’t be any shock that the home…
Douglas A. McIntyre The price of wheat has gone up three-fold in ten months. For something that looks like a weed, that is an impressive run. Since a large number of business from McDonald’s (NYSE:…
The staff at most of the Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) recently went though a few hours for training. The nationwide program was designed to make the people working in the stores do a…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) retrained most of its store workers last week. Howard Schultz, the returned founder and CEO, has replaced a number of the lame-brains in senior management. It would be hard…
Douglas A. McIntyre A big company gets in trouble. The board throws the CEO under a bus and brings back the founder. The stock market figures that the person who built the company is the…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) do not have much in common.That changed a bit yesterday when word came out that they would both cut workers. It is a demonstration…
According to Reuters, Micorosft (MSFT) will open up some of its software code to rivals. Reuters reports that BP (BP) will try to get billions of more barrels out of Prudhoe Bay.…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is making some changes today in what it hopes will streamline certain aspects of its operations. The press release notes that this will "better focus efforts on enhancing the…
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