Glad to see him return, to Starbuck’s
Past management seemed overtly focused on profits over people these past few years.

Delighted and hopeful for Starucks.

Customers and employees felt the scrutinization of an overly profitized attitude shift.
As costs went up, customer relationships were not flourishing as they had with Mr.Schultz as CEO.

Somehow Corporate overlooked the mainstay of every business are the “employees”.

Advice-
Raise wages, treat people fairly and be considerate. The people you hire determine the future of (the, your) business and are much more than a name space on a schedule.

Lower and middle management forget the invisible divisionary line that has somehow been created between the desks at corporate and those who work front and center.

People reach out to unions to be protected. Due to changes and hostility within an organization.

Truth- People are now finding themselves sleeping in cars, coming to work hungry. Some of your employees have children that have no choice but to be hungry and sleep in the same style.

Today’s wages are not providing much relief. Yet there is light for options and ideas that can provide some help through reprioritizing business thought and intention for the future.

Starbucks Humilty-
This one situation brings to light how important it is to have lower/middle management in place that have problem solving abilities, excercise good judgment and operate within a level of compassion to the company, it’s members and the pubic.

Just one story-
The Media brought to light in Seattle-
After discovering employees fired due to consuming marked out pastries that were heading to a food bank….
“Fired due to Hunger” There is no excuse or comeback for poor management decisions.

Lately, Starbucks has been showing up in the news negatively.
My trust is with Howard to turn Starbuck’s into a brighter direction.

thank you so much.