We have seen what exports can do for fast food restaurants. Can the same happen with coffee stocks?
In some ways, it is already happening. Starbucks (SBUX) has made a big push overseas and many of its stores can be found in foreign markets. And a weak dollar is going to accelerate the trend greatly.
Starbucks knows how to saturate a market, and as it becomes more attractive for the company to increase foreign sales, look for Starbucks to follow the on-every-corner approach that helped the company dominate the U.S. market. Even if the U.S. market struggles for Starbucks, the foreign potential is still quite large and will offset domestic weakness.
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