Starbucksreason 01 of 4it can hold its price and keep the customerderived 2026-09-08accession 0000829224-26-000130
The Back to Starbucks strategy is successfully reversing traffic declines and rebuilding transaction growth alongside ticket expansion, demonstrating pricing power and demand recovery that should compound over a large store base. This dual-lever growth (transactions + ticket) suggests genuine demand rather than pure price pass-through.
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It held on this filing. No finding was written because nothing in it bore on the reason — the sentences it was read against are below.
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“The increase was primarily due to higher delivery sales and strength in customer food attach and beverage modifications”
“For the first three quarters of fiscal 2026, comparable store sales increased 5.9%, driven by a 3.6% increase in comparable transactions and a 2.3% increase in average ticket”