Starbucks is a company that sells sugar for a lot of money. Who cares what happens to them.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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Coffee nuts don't drink starbucks and those of us who just drink coffee can't tell the difference...starbucks is a shit company with overpriced drinks.
Continue to boycott starbucks. There are many alternatives just as good and even better.
And if you really want to take things to the next step, making your own coffee at home from freshly roasted beans is soooo worth it.
Sure, but look at this smile!
And it's just mediocre coffee anyway. Roasted too dark just to keep a consistency in flavour between locations. Starbucks is a tax dodging lifestyle brand, they could start a clothing line and make the same money as they do selling coffee.
It really is. I like dark roast coffee, but I want flavor besides burnt.
I volunteer at food shelters, and every now and then we get something we can't really hand out, like unground coffee beans, so I ended up with a large bag of some Starbucks ultra dark roast of some kind. Had a leopard? on the bag. It smelled like boiled cat shit the instant I opened the bag, went in the compost bin immediately.
I worked there back in the early aughts. It actually was a cool retail job that paid reasonably well, a few dollars above minimum, and you got company stock, benefits, a free pound of coffee a week or box of tea, you were invited to company meetings, free drinks on shift, and we did all sorts of cool volunteer stuff, like with the food bank and habitat for humanity, and we would do coffee tastings at events, all sorts of things. It honestly was a fun job lots of the time. It's so sad it's turned into trash.
They are hired assasins. Like how they had special officers in WWII to commit the massacres
Shop local. It's just coffee. Don't let the marketers tell you any different. For sweet creamy syrupy treats go to the ice cream store. Let's not support the current system of the bigwig at the top who does very little and reaps most of the rewards.
But the local shops are often treating employees in ways that starbucks couldn't possibly get away with. Source: ex who worked 14 hr shifts without weekends at 4 different places for a couple months each and came out at net negative.
There are some nice places though, where barista is the owner, and not just some stupid rich kid trying his hand at entrepreneurship.
Hell even my regular coffee shop does most of the ~~milkshakes~~ fancy coffees that Starbucks does.
I drink black coffee but they do look really good
Plus ordering there takes 3x longer than if I just made a coffee at home. They are not convenient unless you are traveling and have no access to a coffee maker.
I have never gone to a Starbucks and I never will. It's not that hard to do that. They will never get even a penny out of me.
The only reason i would go to a Starbucks is to look at the people working and buying coffee there. Or to meet a cute person behind the counter, but i have never nore will i spend money in that
Fair warning, if you're brewing coffee at home it's still possible to buy Starbucks.
Most of the coffee at Costco is just rebranded Starbucks beans. A lot of dark roast coffee is secretly shitty Starbucks beans. If it smells like cigarettes at any point, you've probably got Starbucks coffee.
What if I told you, I don't drink coffee.
I have to give this another try.
THAT'S NOT TRUE
THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE
Shouldn't Costco warn people if they're gonna sell burnt ass coffee beans though?
I already have dirty toilet water at home, I don't see why I would pay Starbucks for it.
Looks like Luigi got another flag to reach
Luigi did his part
Maybe we need Mario now?
Why do the Italians need to keep fighting? Let some others get into the action, like Yoshi or Peaches. We can always branch out and have other Nintendo properties get these guys. How about Zelda or Link?
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