8.17: Video- Starbucks Delivers Community and Connection
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What business is Starbucks really in?
“We wanted to build a third place between home and work,” says Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz, as he sits in one of his cafés, “at a time in America when people are hungry for human connection.”
Watch the following video to learn how, from the beginning, Starbucks has positioned itself to be much more than just a seller of gourmet coffee. It has built its entire brand experience around a core positioning that offers “a sense of community” as much as coffee.
A link to an interactive elements can be found at the bottom of this page.
You can view the transcript for “Starbucks the Brand” (opens in new window).
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- Starbucks Delivers Community and Connection. Provided by: Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution
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- Starbucks the Brand. Provided by: BBC. Located at: https://youtu.be/tnHuGN3umTA. License: CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives