Thank you for all for your votes! We’ve now launched US stocks & we couldn’t leave out Starbucks, they’re included in our Stock Universe 
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I dipped my toe and bought 1 (one!) share of SBUX on Monday. It almost immediately went up on news the company would reopen more than 85% of its US stores by the end of this week.
That’s luck.
I mostly bought it because I think it’s becoming a tech stock. I used to use the payment app before the virus hit, and I read they would whitelabel the solution to other firms.
Starbucks also partnered with the VC firm Sequia to invest in Chinese startups.
I’m excited and plan to buy more next month.
Its a great buy right now. Good thing to keep in mind with Starbucks is they’re also a " bank " and have over 1B in customer funded, well, funds (more than most US banks).
This comes from the huge popularity of their loyalty scheme/app that allows you to convert money into points for coffee. The key being this can’t be converted back to cash and as such they are much freer to use that money how they please - securing themselves against risk, say if there was to be a recession, pandemic or say both.
I should note this is not investment advice and as always do your own research. Just my views 
Torrid day for Starbucks today. Nothing worth panicking about but does show the next 6 months could be tricky with supply chain pressure added to rising staff & material costs.
I had sold my Starbucks position and bought Dutch Bros (BROS).
I did by back into Starbucks yesterday on the dip.
As I drink coffee everywhere I go I’m hoping my investments will pay for them 
What made you ditch sbux for dutch bros?
Growth potential
This union is is coming hard, just read this article on it.
Great write up on Starbucks earnings
Why would they sell when 70% of their shops are franchise
It seems really odd
The article doesn’t make it clear but maybe it’ll be the other 30% they own directly?
I can’t see the appeal of a national franchise if the parent company doesn’t think they can make it work well. You’ll have limited levers of control to improve the situation
Because they are not selling. They are franchising the remaining 30%
Most of their markets are 100% franchised.
Has anyone received their dividend yet for Starbucks?