Mini-Case On the Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) What Starbucks Strategies are Best?

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There is only so much revenue that coffee, lattes, and pastries can bring in, so Starbucks performed SWOT and QSPM analyses and decided to spend millions on three new strategies: (1) provide beer and wine, (2) provide expanded lunch and dinner menus, and (3) provide advanced mobile ordering. Several key factors that entered into this decision were (1) there have been long wait times for customers to get served at many of its locations, (2) company business had fallen off 30 percent after morning breakfast, and (3) rivals Panera Bread, Atlanta ...

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