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Can "Starbucks For Life" Change Online Shopping Trends?

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Mark Melin
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Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) wants to provide a lucky someone a caffeine buzz for life in hopes of reversing sagging brick and mortar retail sales during the holiday season.

Can "Starbucks For Life" Change Online Shopping Trends?

Howard Schultz on giving Starbucks for life

After being approached by celebrities and CEOs about the idea of being able to give the gift of Starbucks for life, Howard Schultz, chief executive officer of the Seattle-based peddler of addictive alertness altering substances, thought long and hard about the ability to give Starbucks for life.

"We know intrinsically that this will have broad-based excitement and will drive incremental traffic into our stores. That's what...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.