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Starbucks

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:49 am
by Leisher
New CEO is the 4th in 2 years.

I wonder what his "homeless people in the bathroom" policy will be.

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:55 am
by Leisher
Self-serve station returning.

That $9 coffee just got more unjustified.

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:56 am
by GORDON
If you don't have your Apple branded device and Starbucks coffee logo both clearly visible, do you even have any worth?

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:03 am
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:55 am Self-serve station returning.

That $9 coffee just got more unjustified.
OTOH, customers get what they want more easily, imho.

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:43 am
by Leisher
TheCatt wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:03 am
Leisher wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:55 am Self-serve station returning.

That $9 coffee just got more unjustified.
OTOH, customers get what they want more easily, imho.
No argument, but why are you paying so much for the coffee when they weren't making it right in the first place? And now they're saying, "Do it yourself."

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:44 am
by TheCatt
Why is anyone paying so much for coffee that's 25 cents to begin with?

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:50 am
by GORDON
GORDON wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:56 am If you don't have your Apple branded device and Starbucks coffee logo both clearly visible, do you even have any worth?

Starbucks

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:53 am
by Leisher
Listen, no other coffee place makes iced tea properly like Starbucks does.

But Gordon is correct.

Starbucks

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:23 pm
by Leisher

Starbucks

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:08 am
by Leisher

Starbucks

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:27 am
by Leisher
Closing hundreds of stores during effort to reverse dropping sales.
And customers have balked at the chain’s prices. More than 70% of people blamed higher prices for why they planned to visit Starbucks less over the next 12 months, a recent UBS survey of 1,600 consumers found.
In all the things they list they're doing to win back customers, guess what isn't on that list...

Starbucks

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:34 am
by TheCatt
Starbucks sucks.

Re: Starbucks

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:30 pm
by Leisher
They're in Washington, so I don't see this ending well for Starbucks even if the case wasn't so obviously retaliation.


Although, they're not in Washington for long...

Re: Starbucks

Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 9:30 am
by Leisher
Two things:
1. This guy is a fucking moron for taking this approach during an affordability crisis that's been going on since 2020. The consumer market is not open to luxuries at the moment and $9 coffee is one. Starbucks would see more foot traffic if this asshat had acknowledged that most people are struggling, and announced a massive price drop across the board. Maybe $5 coffee would bring back some of the customers they've alienated over the past several years.
2. If you're spending $9 on a cup of coffee and are struggling, you're the problem.


Re: Starbucks

Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 9:44 am
by TheCatt
$9 coffee better at least give me a reach around

Re: Starbucks

Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 10:02 am
by Leisher
There's a story out there about Larry Bird when he was with the Dream Team (so around 1992). They were in Mexico for an exhibition or something and at a resort bar. Larry ordered a beer and was told the price in pesos, which he then asked what it converted to in U.S. dollars. It was $7, and Larry passed saying, "You can keep your $7 beer."

If all Americans could act like that, a whole bunch of shit in this country would be dramatically different.

Re: Starbucks

Posted: Fri May 22, 2026 9:24 am
by Leisher

Re: Starbucks

Posted: Fri May 22, 2026 11:02 am
by TheCatt
Image

Re: Starbucks

Posted: Fri May 22, 2026 11:28 am
by Leisher
The Kirk meme is even more appropriate because of how people think AI works. They think, "This is like Star Trek", the reality is we're still at Scotty needing to type on a keyboard.