re: Former Starbucks CEO says company needs to refocus on coffee as sales struggle

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They're struggling? Every time I drive by my local one it has a line of people waiting for their $9 milkshake.

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Ah yes, the anecdote.

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They're struggling? Every time I drive by my local one it has a line of people waiting for their $9 milkshake. Side note: stopped in there when our power went out on Sunday morning to get some fresh coffee. Not a big fan of Pike's Place but it did the job.

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I left education after a decade and went back to sales. They aren’t “struggling” but probably missed plan(which is essentially all the rich people that own us want to make x amount of dollars”. Giant corporations don’t understand that sometimes you can be profitable without growing sales by 5%. One of the effects of what I call super capitalism. You have constantly being growing and outperforming year over year instead of simply maintaining efficiency and good profitability.