In this YouTube commentary, Rob Moore outlines why Starbucks may be considering selling its UK operations, presenting six key challenges: (1) high inflation and cost‑of‑living pressures reducing discretionary coffee spending; (2) chronic staff shortages stemming from COVID‑related lockdowns; (3) extremely thin profit margins and low daily sales relative to high rent costs; (4) supply‑chain disruptions that make core ingredients scarce or expensive; (5) a rushed rollout of online ordering and delivery platforms that caused app glitches; and (6) growing worker unionization creating labor tensions. Moore then extracts four broader business lessons: the need to adapt and overcome during disruptive periods; the importance of tracking where new money flows rather than clinging to legacy industries; the reminder that no company is too big to fail; and the advantage of shifting to high‑margin, information‑based business models such as content creation and membership sites. The video concludes with a promotional call‑to‑action for Moore’s own platform, rob.team, positioning it as a way to learn modern, low‑overhead business models.
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Starbucks up for sale. So Starbucks is considering selling off its UK business. Starbucks has greatly struggled for, I believe, 6 reasons. I'm going to share those with you because there's some great lessons in this, but this is huge news. Starbucks is not just a coffee business, It's a culture. Starbucks could do no wrong for decades. Starbucks almost killed the public houses and the social clubs in the UK, and now Starbucks is probably going to sell its UK business. So while Starbucks hasn't started what you might call a formal sales process. I'm going to quote here, the company said it's single-mindedly focusing on enhancing our core US business. So here is what's going on with Starbucks. I've been doing my own research. I am an entrepreneur. I love business. I love learning from the successes of others, and I love learning from the challenges and failures of others. Let's be honest, it's better to learn from the failures of others vicariously than it is to have to fail yourself and go through it. So here are the 6 reasons why Starbucks have struggled. These are great business and life lessons. Please watch carefully. Please also share this. Number 1: high inflation and the soaring cost of living means that people don't want to spend $5 or $6 on a coffee. Now, what are people going to cut back when cost of living is high and inflation is double digits? They're going to cut back on non-essentials. And also, let's be honest, while Starbucks has been a culture and a social environment, their coffees are bloody expensive. Now, by the way, many of you are saying you don't like Starbucks coffee. Some of you are saying you are. Do you like Starbucks coffee or not? Honestly, I'm not sure how relevant the actual quality of the coffee is, but let me know what you think in the comments. Do you like Starbucks coffee or not? But the high inflation, the cost of living crisis, when people make cutbacks, what is disposable? Lunches can just make them from home. Coffees can make them from home. Number 2, chronic staff shortages. So because of COVID and then lockdown— this is not Starbucks' fault— they're having chronic staff shortages. Many businesses across the world are having chronic staff shortages, and that's really affecting their business. Number 3 is skinny margins and sales volume. So do you know how much revenue the average Costa would do a day, or the average coffee shop in the UK? Let Let me know in the comments. You're going to be gobsmacked by this. Do you know the average revenue or turnover the average UK coffee shop does? Have a guess. Some people say £20,000, £50,000, £10,000. It's under £2,000 a day, and their rent is around £60,000 a year. So it doesn't take much for those skinny margins to go negative. The fourth issue is this massive supply chain issues. They can't get core key ingredients because obviously, um, many supply chains were dried up. Therefore, there's certain commodities that you just can't get or have gone crazily expensive. Now, why am I telling you this? One, because it's newsworthy, but two, because you can learn from this. Because we can observe the traits of the greats when they're great and observe the traits of the greats when they're struggling. Number 5, online ordering. So you know you've got Uber Eats and you've got these online delivery systems. Well, and when you've not done it before, um, that can be glitchy. And apparently they've had all sorts of issues with online ordering and glitching of their apps. You can imagine it's complete chaos. And then number 6, and this is one that sort of scares me a bit, but workers unionizing. Have you noticed that there are unions being formed of many different niches now, and lots of them are looking to go on strike? Rail, post, airline, etc. And so this is causing real issues between the company and the unionizing of the staff. Now, to be fair, many of the issues are not Starbucks' fault. COVID and lockdown are not Starbucks' fault. Supply chain issues are not Starbucks' fault. Having to build online delivery systems and then glitching so quickly. Well, this is normal, but unfortunately many workers aren't really that sympathetic and they are now unionizing. So, um, Adam has said I should buy Starbucks. Let's see how cheap it goes. Who knows? Um, but I've never really liked the coffee business because it is, um, very low margin. Also, it is based on product, physical product. I prefer online and information, which I'll talk about in a minute. So here are the lessons. Number 1, you must adapt and overcome. And in lockdowns and wars and recessions and massive taxations, etc., you must adapt and overcome. If you look back through history long enough, there are wars, there are recessions, There are acts of terror, there are acts of nature, there are also acts of mismanagement in government and revolutions that create disruptive times. And in these disruptive times, you have the losers and the winners, and the big new winners emerge after these disruptive times. More millionaires made in a recession than any other time. So adapt and overcome, evolve. The next lesson is look at where the new money is going. The old money is probably moving away from retail, commercial, um, coffee shops, industrial, mechanical, manufacturing. It's probably moving away from those old huge industries into information, tech, meta, crypto, etc. So I don't— oh, the money's gone from over here. Look where the new money is going. Next lesson is you're never too big to fail. Never too big to fail. And I'm not saying Starbucks were complacent. I, you know, it's difficult, but they're big. And when you're really that big and you have those low margins, you know, it doesn't take much of a movement to really struggle. And so then my final lesson is if you turn information into income, content into cash flow, what you already know into cash flow, you know, like my Rob.team membership site or online courses or you become a creator and you leverage social media, um, and you teach people to do what you already know, and you turn what you already know into cash flow. That is ultra high margin, ultra low risk, virtually no overhead, no stock, no staffing, no need for retail premises. And this is the modern business model. And so if you'd love to learn how to build these modern business models, then go and join rob.team right now. So open up a new page on the internet Type in rob.team, rob.team, and you can learn to leverage the new, um, revolutionary business models that aren't dying like manufacturing and retail and commercial and physical stockholding. You don't need staff, you don't need premises, you don't need massive overheads. You can be lean and mean, high margin, high profit, information into income, content into cash flow. So go and join rob.team to learn how to do this. I've done a 21 Ways to Monetize Social Media Masterclass, my content creation, content omnipresence, content repurposing masterclasses, all on rob.team. And it is cheaper than a Starbucks coffee. You make a good point there, Adam. So go open a new page on the internet right now. Do it now because I've got to get out of here. Type in rob.team. Learn from the greats and the big businesses. Learn when they succeed, learn when they fail, so you don't have to make their same mistakes. You can learn and grow on the way up and not fail on the way down. You can use rob.team to learn, earn, and invest and save yourself time and money and mistakes. Build confidence, and turn what you already know into cash flow. So go join Rob.team. Type in Rob.team into any internet browser right now. Go do it right now. There is no contract. It is one-third of the price of Netflix. It is less than a large Starbucks coffee. You can cancel anytime. Learn, earn, invest. Okay, great. So Thanks for tuning in. Quick summary: Starbucks are struggling. They're considering putting themselves up for sale in the UK. 6 reasons I believe. Number 1, high inflation and the soaring cost of living crisis means people don't want to pay $5 coffees. Number 2, staff shortages caused by COVID and lockdowns. Number 3, really skinny margins. They need really, um, they don't need much movement. You know, many coffee shops take 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 a day and their rent is £60 grand a year. Then you've got supply chain issues and missing ingredients. Then you've got chaos and glitches of online and mobile ordering because of how quickly they had to build it. Then you've got the workers unionising all over the place, so it's a kind of like a standoff between the owners and the workers. And the lessons are: adapt and overcome. In every stressing hides a blessing. With every challenge is an equally upside opportunity. The next lesson is you've got to go where the new money is going, not where the old money was. The new business models are not where the dying business models were. The next then is you're never too big to fail, so always stay humble and hungry. And then the next thing is turn information into income, content into cash flow. Much higher margin, a much higher volume, much easier scalability, much lower risk. And go and join rob.team to learn how to be a creator, an influencer, a content provider. Turn your content into cash flow, what you already know into cash flow. Your message into money and your information into income. I've got loads of masterclasses to teach you to do that, how anyone could do that. Be a podcaster, a YouTuber, a content creator, build your own membership site like rob.team. It's the best business models that exist right now. So open up a new page on the internet right now, type in rob.team. I will see you in the members area. Once you've joined, hit the share button And remember this: if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. Troubling times for Starbucks. Let's see how they evolve.
