Starbucks' Results Show Coffee Snobbery Still Sells

``the latest results on Thursday prove that Starbucks continues to steer their business smoothly. In the U.S. market, for example, comparable store sales increased 4% in the latest quarter as average ticket spending jumped 6%. There was a slight 1% dip in transactions, but that's because of a change that Starbucks implemented to the company's loyalty program earlier this year that discouraged order-splitting.'' -- Depression or recession be damned!