HereWeGo- The price of big sceen TVs crashed largely thanks to aggressive pricing and marketing by WalMart. While I don’t always agree with their politics, Walmart certainly can lower the price of consumer goods.
Regardless of the overall market, there are always money making opportunities for smart, targeted approaches. If you bought Altria (MO) just before the tech bubble burst, you made a ton of money (it had been beat up during the bubble). The trick is just finding those opportunities.
As for Starbucks, I thought their music/movies foray has been regarded as a fiasco at best? Hard for me to really say, as I hate Starbucks coffee. I do agree with Cow_tipping that Starbucks likely is one of the canaries in the coal mine; if people’s wallets are feeling a pinch that $5 cup of coffee is one of the first things to go.
