Monthly Archives: February 2007

Has Starbucks Lost Its Soul?

By Matt Jacob | Published: February 28, 2007
In an internal email from Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz to CEO Jim Donald, Schultz reminisces about Starbucks’ traditions of the past and asks if it’s even about the coffee anymore. He writes: Clearly we have had to streamline store design to gain efficiencies of scale and to make sure we had the ROI on sales to [...]
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Sucking Down Coffee and Wi-Fi

By Matt Jacob | Published: February 24, 2007
Well, my friends, I am currently living the American dream. In fact, right now I’m a highly mobile, RSS feed reading, social networking, web browsing twentysomething—and I don’t even feel all that cool. I’ve got my laptop. I’ve got my Starbucks drink (my second of the evening). I’ve got my cordless frickin’ laser mouse. Heck, [...]
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