Starbucks Corp. (SBUX)

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    mrbill for V
    Jul 31 07:25 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Eli, great to see you i was wondering who the editor was, let's
    hear from you more often.     Reply
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    jenny
    Jul 30 03:08 PM
    Starbucks: Too Expensive [view article]
    Starbucks was and is a great company, but its no doubt that with a recession the first thing people are going to cut back on semi-luxury items like $3.00 coffee when its a significantly cheaper to make it at home. Which is also why cheaper chains like Dunken Donuts and McDonalds coffee have been able to compete lately with Starbucks. Starbucks may have its loyal customers but in general sentiment is down (predictwallstreet.com/...) and the price is down almost 2%. As for other specialty eateries, the industry seems to be pretty strong, according to predictwallstreet.com. Starbucks isn't necessarily a trend, but its popularity does ebb. It could be awhile before its bounces back and we see people with more disposable income to spend on such novelty drinks. Reply
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    John Z
    Jul 29 05:45 PM
    Earnings Preview: Starbucks [view article]
    interesting move in all the announcements today. Dumping pres, killing Australia, more layoffs etc... Gotta figure just how bad earnings will be tommorrow. And why they decided to make several announcements just 24 hrs prior.

    as far as schultz - he NEVER really left. And he's been back as the CEO for several months... you really expect him to do something drastic.. The morale at my local sbux store has hit bottom.. For a company that was supposed to be SO GREEN, SO Full of its employees w/empowerment principals, etc..... comes to figure they are just as much of Pawns as many other- expendible. That'll play on morale.

    I equate the sbux story to Microsoft , made millionaires of many.. during its first 20yrs or so of existance.. but as competitors impeade and take away the landscape, this company too will be a Mediocre NON - Growth stock with a rapidly degrading stock price...and will widdle into almost nothing...     Reply
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    User 234287
    Jul 29 03:07 PM
    Starbucks Wakes Up, Smells the Coffee [view article]
    What site is that chart from? Reply
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    brewboy
    Jul 29 03:06 PM
    Earnings Preview: Starbucks [view article]
    What a Kettle of smelly fish. SBUX, once touted as a 'great place to work', a paragon of 'Corporate Virtue" is no different than any other corporation, perhaps worse as they touted they were the new mold. Benefits for everyone are nice but if you get laid off, what good are they? The problems were evident over three years ago yet the top dogs refused to act for fear of offending the man behind the curtain, "MISTER S". Yes-people get you nowhere, ignoring history begs a repeat. They saw McD over expansion, They saw KrispyKreme debacle, They saw the Boston Market Debacle, yet SBUX was immune, their customer was different. Reply
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    Mike B
    Jul 28 11:20 AM
    Starbucks: Too Expensive [view article]
    Ames....it is not about fades or popularity contest. It simply comes down to how the markets work.

    Starbucks was/is a great concept and it showed by being one of the greatest performing stocks throughout the 90's and early 2000's.

    But with all great companys/ideas, people see it and want a piece of the action. So competition comes in (in one form or another) and places pressure on the current leader.

    Eventually every busy will return to the average market return. This is one financial theory that has proven to actually play out. Is this the case with Starbucks...I don't know. What I do know is they have to do something to differentiate themselves or they will succumb to being a "Great to Good" company.

    I would note that...when people start to protest/mildly riot when a store closes...they have something or have done something right     Reply
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    stoat1004
    Jul 27 10:24 AM
    Buy Rent-A-Center -- Cramer's Lightning Round (7/24/08) [view article]
    Another excellent pick on Rent-a-Center.....From 2005-2007 net income declined by 43.8% while sales, general, and administrative expenses increased by 50.3% (Well run companies in good market segments tend to do the opposite of that Cramer...just a little tip for ya).....It also pays no dividend has 1.25 BILLION in long term debt compared to 947 million in share holders equity....Very cheap at 17times ttm earnings and 1.6 times book don't ya think?.......BTW Cramer folks who can't pay their credit cards can't pay rent-a-center either....Nother tip for ya. Reply
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    Pfloyd234
    Jul 26 08:19 PM
    Buy Rent-A-Center -- Cramer's Lightning Round (7/24/08) [view article]
    You suck......leave my bald friend out of it!!!! Reply
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    fatcat
    Jul 24 09:01 PM
    Buy Rent-A-Center -- Cramer's Lightning Round (7/24/08) [view article]
    Cramer....sucks. Reply
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    pabs
    Jul 24 09:29 AM
    Has Starbucks Bottomed? Not by a Long Shot [view article]
    here is a true tale, i own a a business district cafe and eatery in stamford ct, cafecaroline.com i jumped through hoops to sell starbucks presuming the cache would be great for our business clientele and great for delivery

    starbucks promised me they would not let others very local to me sell starbucks, well that lasted 2 months and they started selling starbucks at one of the office building cafeteria's local to us, curtailing any thoughts of starbucks delivery

    we ran with it for about 6months paying a hefty materials premium not only for the coffee but for the paper cups etc after that term my partner and i began to wonder if starbucks brand was actually bringing in additional customers and with limited data (1 store ) we concluded 'no'

    so what did we do ? well my partner carolines scoured the land for the best tasting coffee, we rebranded everything to cafe caroline 'MoJo' brand and put it out there and the reaction was...

    absolutely NOTHING ! the odd comment here and there people were totall satisfied, our sales go up everymonth about 9-12% because we are new however not factoring this in we do not appear to have any decline is sales whatsoever
    we do however save a staggering 61% on the cost of materials

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    Managing
    Editor
    Jul 23 12:53 AM
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    Inflation: Tears in Your Coffee [view article]
    The table's been corrected ... Reply
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    Terence
    Bullba
    Jul 22 02:16 PM
    Starbucks: Too Expensive [view article]
    Trend? At least in Calif. its part of life, just like Coca Cola and Levis are popular world wide. Anyone look at America and coffee consumption? While i dont think it will reach 2006 high of $39. it will reach $25. Now is a buying opp. Depends on if your in it for long term. Economy will go positve again, but when?? 6 months or 2 years. All of these great stock jocks base their performance on 2,3,4 years or more! Reply
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    mtcook
    Jul 21 06:40 PM
    Has Starbucks Bottomed? Not by a Long Shot [view article]
    As a former Restaurant manager that last hour is very important to getting the location ready to close. Cleaning, restocking, etc. is being done. The time you close has a lot do affect on the two hours before the door gets locked. -2 hrs customer tarffic slows employees regroup for preclose. -1 hr cleaning and restocking like I said before. 0 hr lock the doors clean all the stuff that you cant do with people in the location. If you where to close even 1 hour eariler you would be moving into the tail end of the peak business hours, with employees wanting to get out and hour early they start pre-closeing, and ignore the customers. Its kills business in the long run, you loose money by trying to save a few bucks.
    We did the same thing in the Restaurant that I worked in. They wanted us to close at 10 instead of 11 Sun-Thurs. I told my DM that I would not close early, after a big fight he let me be a test store. While my labor stayed about the same and the other stores labor dropped my sales stayed the same and the other stores SALES dropped. All business is opperated to MAKE money not save it. When you start running a business to save money,and not make more money, run dont walk away from it.     Reply
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    2houndz
    Jul 20 06:46 PM
    Has Starbucks Bottomed? Not by a Long Shot [view article]
    Predatory Monster? Overdramatic blooger? Reply
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    Managing
    Editor
    Jul 17 09:46 AM
    My Website
    Inflation: Tears in Your Coffee [view article]
    Yup. The dates at the top need to be switched.

    How'd THAT happen? Probably the watered-down, inflation-fighting coffee in the proof/editing stage.

    Thanks for the catch. It'll get fixed.     Reply
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