It's Monday, March 7th, and this is Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Global Gaines,

Tim Hanson, from Income,

from Income, James Early, and from Motley Fool Asset Management Bill Mann.

Guys, good to see you.

We've got news from Mattel and we've got one financial writer looking to take down Warren Buffett,

but we are going to start with Starbucks.

CEO Howard Schultz told the Wall Street Journal that his company is looking to beef up its

consumer products business so that over time it will rival Starbucks retail business.

Quote, it's very possible that Starbucks as a corporation will be marketing and selling multiple products that don't have coffee in them or coffee associated with them.

Bill Mann, as a Starbucks shareholder, please talk me off the ledge.

I get terrified when I hear stuff like that.

I think the good news for you is that you may be reading a press release from 2004.

He got in the way back machine.

I mean we've heard this from Starbucks before and really what Starbucks is coming up

against is is they've come to the end of their growth trajectory, the easy growth doing what they do well.

And so they're looking for new things.

What would make me happy were I a shareholder is if they were, the new thing were to be returning

more cash to shareholders because it's an incredibly profitable business but they're trying

to figure out more ways to grow, which I don't know, I don don't do any of you ever go to

Starbucks for victuals I mean I go I go to

they made it a 7-Eleven maybe but yeah some studies showed that stocks that pay

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