By February 2007, Schultz was questioning whether the company was on the right path. The product mix which included non-coffee drinks, food items, music, books, movies and even teddy bears had expanded tremendously; locations both company owned and licensees seemed to be everywhere. In a memo to the company’s top execs, Schultz wrote, “we have had to make a series of decisions that, in retrospect, have led to the watering down of the Starbucks experience, and, what some might call the commoditization of our brand.” 57 The company, he lamented, had lost the “romance and theatre” of coffee making with its meteoric expansion.