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Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service
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Kise of coffee consumption in the US with
the largest growth being that of specialty
coffee.
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Starbucks had no operations in 6 states, and '
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was operating in only 150 of 300 metro
areas.
In the home segment, specialty coffee was
estimated to be 3.2 billion. Starbucks only
had 4% of this market.
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market, and the representative share of
specialty coffee.
SWOT Analysis
Strength
- High-quality coffee for Starbucks controlled as much supply chain from
various countries as possible.
- Established brand name.
- Great ability of measuring things by collecting market data
Weakness
- Indiscipline at using data to drive decision making
Opportunities
- Many stores all over the U.S. and some other countries
- Kising coffee consumption
- Eight states in the U.S. without a single company-operated Starbucks
- Being far from reaching saturation levels of Starbucks¶ stores in many existing markets
Threats
- Kising competitive coffee bars
- Bad image of a company caring primarily about making money
- Very little image or product differentiation between Starbucks and the smaller coffee
chains