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I'm Mary Long joined today by Kirsten Guerra.

Kirsten, thanks for joining us on the show this morning.

Thanks for having me here on this surprising day.

Surprising day, having you was not a surprise, but perhaps some of the topics that were. a surprising day. day.

Having you was not a surprise, but perhaps some of the topics that we're covering today do come

as a bit of a surprise.

One of those surprises is that Starbucks decided to gift us with their results a little more than a week early. They dropped

preliminary results yesterday. The full results are due October 30th. That will be

freshly minted CEO Brian Nichols first call with analysts in this new role.

Before we kind of dive into what we're seeing here, maybe give us a primer on why companies

choose to beat themselves to the punch when delivering bad news in the first place?

I think it can be a signal of goodwill toward investors generally, especially if the results are going to be

considerably off of expectations it's the company kind of saying like hey we don't

want you to be shocked on earnings day so we'll shock you today instead or just a

little bit of the shock I guess really in this case I think it's just new CEO Brian Nicole kind of distancing himself from the upcoming results sort of acknowledging the results right now is like saying, hey, the momentum for these

less than stellar results is already in the works.

Okay, it's not because I made my first few changes as CEO and made everything a little worse.

It was already coming to fruition.

That would be my best guess in this case.

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