Everyone else’s business always looks easier than your own business.
This strategic move doesn’t surprise me. Often times when a brand that is so focused expands outside its own industry, failure ensues and the brand is damaged.
I don’t go to Starbucks to purchasing CDs. I go to get a great cup of coffee in a clean environment in my neighborhood hopeful that I will run into some friends in the store.
Howard Schultz is so smart. He is getting his company refocused on its main deliverable. All his energies are in getting great coffee made and for an efficient manufacture of the product. I love that Caffe Macchiato too. 
David,
You signed it, you’ll probably have to honor it. Good luck and just enjoy the football I guess. When the contract expires, do something else like support the Caps and D.C. United.
Or you could sell them to your friends and/or use Stub Hub, eBay or Craigs List.
…trouble is, what we really need is a full-catalogue music-CD shop in this town (like the HMV’s in London)…the closest thing to it would be Melody just north of Dupont Circle but that one’s rather small – we haven’t had a big full-catalogue music shop in this town since Tower went belly-up, and FYE and Borders are constantly out of titles. But no need for Starbucks to enter the business (their coffee isn’t even that good anyway).
I know I made a habit of checking out the latest music at Starbucks – what a huge loss….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Never bought any CD’s from Fourbucks–I spend enough money there just on my usual cup of coffee. And I really do pay four bucks for it: an iced eight-shot Americano isn’t cheap.
And I don’t think the problem was getting away from their core business: it’s just the sour nature of the CD business right now. CD stores in general are having trouble (cf. Records, Tower, and Goody, Sam), so Starbucks really should have thought twice before jumping into a bearish music industry.
Hello Ted, thanks for making the NHL matter again to DC. I had the pleasure of purchasing play off tickets home and away this past season, and even made it to the Hurricanes game at the end of the season!
I’d love to purchase tickets this season but like many in the district, I also am “locked up” with a Redskins club level contract with 4 years left.
Do you know of any fans in my situation, and can you advise me of how to “get out” of my contract with the skins?
thanks,
cap for life