Starbucks gives me apple fanboy vibes…
I want planning to go back to Starbucks but it turns out they didn’t actually sponsor the RNC convention https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/24/facebook-posts/starbucks-was-an-official-sponsor-of-the-rnc/
Now I don’t know, coffee bean and tea leaf have a nice Colombian coffee
The Starbucks in my area removed all their seating. I would go for the 3rd space aspect but they got rid of it.
Dystopian. You are a cafe!
I stopped going there when I realized it’s all just sugar. All the yummy drinks are just sugar.
My husband and I started going to the co-op and getting fancy coffee beans and make drip coffee each morning. Cheaper, just as delicious (if not even better), and we don’t have to go out
Coffee shop? More like a dessert-in-a-cup emporium! Finding normal coffee on the menu these days is like a treasure hunt. ha.
Well done, definitely better!
Have you stumbled across James Hoffmann’s videos perchance?
Stopping by to declare that James Hoffman is the best ☕
We love him!
Good! I boycott Starbucks because of their underhanded business practices.
Same here! Too much union busting for me to feel comfortable buying things there. I’m sure they’ve done other stuff, but that alone was enough for me.
I go to my kitchen for coffee. Fuck Starbucks.
Fast food is where the pushback is beginning. Consumers NEED to push back on greed-flation for things to change, especially in areas of elastic demand. Hopefully, this trend continues and the companies react the right way (I know, that’s overly optimistic)
The other day I was walking around, thinking about all the different coffee shops I could see, and wondering why people waste their money on starbucks and their burnt-ass coffee.
For the desserts-masquerading-as-coffee.
First McDonald’s and now Starbucks. Cool. Screw em.
Now do Chipotle next!
But only when they don’t have Carne Asada
I stopped eating at Chipotle many years ago when my local Chipotle caused dozens of food poisoning cases. Luckily there are lots of mom-and-pop burrito joints where I live, and their food is almost always better and cheaper than Chipotle.
For granted, there’s no shortage of coffee shops in my city. Locally operated and owned, and they have better coffee at better prices. Starbucks isn’t even a reasonable choice with so many better options available.
I’d always choose a smaller spot anyway. More casual and less crowded, but still doing good business.
More casual and less crowded, but still doing good business.
And probably better value for money as well.
Their prices are so expensive. Corporate executives do whatever they need to in order to increase profits right now, even if it destroys a customer base.
Starbucks also often don’t have bathrooms anymore. Starbucks used to be a place you could go to, sit down, use a bathroom if you wanted, use the Internet, and then buy something reasonably priced if you felt like it, but also just be there without buying anything.
Now they want KYC through an App before you buy a $20 Latte so you can get a QR code in the App to use a bathroom, if they have one. The enshitification is real and then they are shocked-gasp, shocked!-that fewer people are there. “Why don’t they like the QR Codes?”
We are laughing at your misfortune, you fucking ghouls
Traffic to its U.S. stores fell again […] dropping 6%. Domestic same-store sales fell 2%, boosted by an increase in average ticket.
So they had less people come in, and their response was to raise prices.
Last quarter, executives discussed plans to revive the lagging U.S. business that included leaning on discounts
Ah, yes, temporarily lower prices that you’ll need to install their tracking app for, I’m sure. They’ll use it to dial in the price-point at which each customer is willing to buy, offer “discounts” to just above that price, and then boil-the-frog until it reaches a price acceptable to corporate …
1/4 teaspoon ground tumeric 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon coco Thoroughly mix with ground coffee Brew in French press You’re welcome.
Donut shop style medium roast in a percolator, add 1 serving powdered Mexican hot chocolate to your cup. Mmm, yeah.
Percolators look cool, but they are horrible for brewing coffee. It pretty much necessitates burning your coffee, because it has to boil the already brewed coffee to send it back through for more rounds to keep brewing. That’s not ideal.
That’s what I hear, but I still like the taste of percolator coffee better than any other. May just be bad taste on my part.
Cardamom coffee is where it’s at!
Omg, the consequences of all the giant corporations inflating prices for the last 4 years
