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Welcome to Motley Fool Money.

I'm Tyler Crowe, and today I'm going to be joined by longtime Fool contributors, John

Klost, and Matt Frankel.

Now, I know we call it earnings season, but earning season never really ends because

there's always somebody reporting something, and we've actually had a couple home builders

report recently.

So we're going to use this as a chance to dive into the industry. And we'll also wrap up today with stocks on a radar.

But we're going to start the day with a fresh serving of news that Starbucks is planning a major

restructuring. The company announced it will cut its North American store count by about 1% lay off about 900 employees,

and it's all part of a $1 billion restructuring program to hopefully recharge a brand that

perhaps people thought that the coffee had gone a little bit stale at Starbucks.

Now, guys, I have conflicting thoughts about this. On the one side,

not throwing good money after poor returns is always preferred, hence the store count reduction.

But I don't think contraction was really on people's minds when they brought Brian Nickel in over

from Tripoli to write the ship. So where do you land on this news? And bonus to the

question, what is your preferred coffee spot and preferred order? Well, Tyler, I think that Starbucks

optimist had hoped that we could keep all of these Starbucks stores and just simply get better

efficiency out of them. I think that was the hope

bringing in Nickel that it would just be better operations for all the stores. Nickel is basically

saying that some of these stores don't fit into the vision for the company going forward, so not all of

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