Key PointsStarbucks became too transactional, eroding its brand and its role as a “third place.”Starbucks’s turnaround is showing measurable signs of progress.The company’s focus on high-margin growth makes it ideally suited for dividend investors. Motley Fool Issues Rare "Total Conviction" Buy Alert › Earlier this month, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) raised its dividend for the 16th consecutive year, boosting the payout by a modest one cent per shar…