Company

Starbucks

Type: public
Ticker: SBUX · NASDAQ
Market value: $100B

Starbucks is public, listed as SBUX on NASDAQ, in Food and grocery.

What it sells: coffee shops, mobile order.

In the language of this map it serves 2 solutions — Fast food and ready meals and Bars and nightlife — which between them relieve 4 human frictions.

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Sells

Fast food and ready mealsEarly adulthood
Bars and nightlifeEarly adulthood

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Feed yourself for the first time, with no time and no skillEarly adulthood
The family must sometimes eat without cookingChildhood
A growing body that eats constantly and buys its own foodAdolescence
Friends scatter after school; rebuild a social world from zeroEarly adulthood

Trends favouring it

Alcohol decline and the sober-curious generationCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.

Trends pressuring it

Office conversion and the reshaping of citiesCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.
Union revival and rising wage floorsDirection genuinely disputed. Reasonable people expect opposite outcomes.