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Case Study - Starbucks

Strategy Recommendation

In to curtail its original position and boost its sales it has to rely more on newer techniques than to just open novel outlets with the same pace . More outlets mean more employees and the employee satisfaction rate is not that high for Starbucks as well despite of high wages as compared to other fast food retailers . It needs to accommodate all the four

's in its plan in to gain an overall edge in the market

The lack of attention to its marketing aspect is indicated by the

br expenditure it has on Marketing , which is only 30 million . Its constitutes to a minimal percentage of 1 percent to be precise and only on special occasions when they have a launch of a new product or flavors

Product

Despite the variety presence in the number of coffee and other products available there are still bad healthy remarks associated with caffeine and junk food , which include baked material as well . Therefore in to counter that they should come up with ways to make their product more healthy and yet tasty like their move of attempting to eliminate hydrogenated oils from its foods for more than two years ' and now Coffee retailer Starbucks Corp . recently announced that it would remove trans fats from baked goods in half of its U .S . stores by Jan . 3 and plans to eventually cut the unhealthy fats from foods in all its stores (Fraser , 2007

There are several advantages to this act of there as the trans fat ban applies to the items offered on Starbucks ' food menu including doughnuts , muffins and other baked goods . Research has shown that trans fats -- listed on Starbucks ' ingredients labels as partially hydrogenated vegetable oil -- clog arteries and can trigger heart attack and stroke , as...

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