Has Starbucks Solved Its Food Problem?
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🗓️ 17 June 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Three years ago Starbucks bought La Boulange for $100 million. Today Starbucks’ stock hits a new all-time high as the company announces it will close the La Boulange shops. We analyze the move and disagree over whether the coffee giant has figured out food. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag and discuss Under Armour, Markel and FedEx.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 17th. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today |
| 0:06.6 | from Motley Full Funds, Bill Barker. |
| 0:08.3 | Happy Wednesday. |
| 0:09.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:10.5 | You're looking all sharp. |
| 0:11.4 | You're all dressed up. I am all dressed up. So clearly you have you have plans elsewhere. That's true. |
| 0:17.3 | It's true. Well, you've got your Boston Strong shirt on. Yeah, because I don't have anywhere special to be. |
| 0:24.0 | You have a lot of running shirts. |
| 0:26.0 | Those who don't know. |
| 0:28.0 | This is just a basic t-shirt I got from my alma mater because, you know, just to derail the podcast right off the bat I went to |
| 0:35.9 | Boston College. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah so miles like a running shirt so I mean I'm not feeling your shirt |
| 0:41.5 | not that there's anything wrong with that but you just a basic cotton t-shirt. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, so the Boston Marathon is famous for among other things Heartbreak Hill which is a stretch basically |
| 0:56.0 | like a three-mile stretch of the race and having done a half marathon that |
| 1:02.4 | involved Heartbreak Hill I can tell you it's absolutely horrible. |
| 1:06.0 | It's just because it's a distance and you think, oh, I'm up over this. |
| 1:10.5 | It's really a series of hills and where Boston College is located the main |
| 1:15.2 | campus at Boston College is at mile 21 and it's basically right after people are done with Heartbreak Hill. |
| 1:25.0 | So when I was in college and we would go on Marathon Monday and watch the runners, they were so |
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