Starbucks Gold Card

Starbucks has decided to attack its stock drop problem by offering a new Starbucks Gold Card. This intention of this card is to bring Starbucks best customers closer at a time when other more casual customers may be coming less. The Gold card also helps to company raise cash. If they can sell 100,000 cards, that's an additional $2.5 million in revenue. Of course, the card will also help encourage customers to come into the store.

Starbucks stock has suffered tremendously, even before this recent financial crisis. McDonald's, one of its main competitors now, is riding high. Even the return of the company's founder has not helped Starbucks stock.

The Gold Card may not help Starbucks now, but it will most certainly be a big contributor to earnings in the future.