Honestly, it wasn't the $7 coffee that turned me away from starbucks. It was the $7 coffee that taste like toilet water, when there are no shortage of local, cheaper coffee shops with amazing brews made by people who actually want to be there, who also won't be fired for unionizing.
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The longtime running critique of Starbucks was that they were already an expensive luxury. Why push it and try to raise prices even further? That takes some serious delusion.
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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.
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Cardamom coffee is where it's at!
I like good tea, not coffee.
So, you know, I have technically always been boycotting Starbucks I guess.
If people really want a caffeine and sugar fix I can't wait till someone tries a chain of yerba mate places. North America is gonna be wired.
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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.
We raised or prices and consumers stopped buying! What is the invisible hand of the market doing? We were promised everlasting growth!
Raised our prices while not just union busting, but outright trying to make them illegal.
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 ☕
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Delonghi bean to cup machine has paid for itself £10 of beans a month I have an an aero press at work. It's ruined the thought of paying anything more than£2 for a coffee
I suggest a community owned and operated service where we can offer Starbucks and McDonald's words of support during these especially difficult times..
But exactly because the times are difficult for them right now, WE CAN CHARGE THEM SURGE PRICING for the supportive messages!!! Let's also ~~fire~~ conduct an employment status reassignment activity for 60% of the human message writer workforce and replace them with AI and cheap offshore call centers!!! Also, let's sell our now collected sadness data on Starbucks and McDonald's to our third party partners like Kleenex so that they can also charge them surge prices for tissues as we have reliable data to show that they are crying right now!!!
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I started boycotting Starbucks when I learned they had partnered with Nestle for store-bought products - their Sumatra and Komodo Dragon coffees were pretty good.
I send an email every year or so to let them know, since boycotts aren't effective if the group being boycotted doesn't know why, with predictably apathetic responses.
Anyway, if you're a no-Nestle person then Starbucks is on the list...
Thanks! Did not know about the Nestle connection. We stopped going to Starbucks when it moved to a fast food type experience vs the cafe feel it had at launch here.
Will be verifying they moved the hell away from Nestle before we consider returning.
Awesome. Unfortunately the agreement was made "in perpetuity" so there's no obvious route to them leaving Nestle.
That's part of why I actually email them, and in the first email I said that I'm bothering to send anything because I do really like their stuff, and I think their other charitible actions mean I can hope they'll take customer feedback. As opposed to Nestle which I expect to tell me to gfm.
I've steadily leaned away from that belief as the company digs farther in to being every crappy anti-labor chain.
Good news! It's the Dacia Sandero.
Only down 3%? I was hoping more. Still, fuck em. Maybe fewer consumers want to pay out the nose for a cup of flavored sugar with coffee?
When you demand infinite growth any decline in growth is a catastrophe.
Same reason McDonald's shit itself over a 1% decline in revenue.
I used to be middle management in retail. The province wide financial meetings had franchisees shitting themselves because the profit vs cost percentage had gone down, despite the actual profit amount continuing to increase (by raising prices).
These people do not live in reality. All numbers must always go up.
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Overpriced cafeinated milkshakes for adults ~~makerating~~ masquerading as "coffee".
makerating
Masquerading?
It's an honestly difficult borrowed French/Italian word just checking if that's what you were going for.
Starbucks customer: Ooof, don't talk to me before I've had my morning coffee...Id like a Venti vanilla caramel mochaccino with 2 extra pumps of vanilla and double drizzle on the whipped cream...but low fat whipped cream
How much of this is a combination of Gen Z being health conscious, and getting old enough to to have to start paying for things themselves instead of having an personal expense budget like when they were in high school or university?
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.