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I used to go to starbucks 20-25 years ago. I didn't really need the sugar+caffeine+dairy. I enjoyed the 3rd space, a place to chat with friends and acquaintances, or meet someone new. and if I didn't socialize there, I could read a book for a while and feel good about accomplishing that. The majority of the starbucks in my area have become "grab and go" and completely removed the seating area.

Myself, and most people I know, are more health conscious and price conscious than we used to be. It's not worth it anymore.

I have an espresso machine with a steaming wand at home and the few times I’ve had Starbucks in the last few years has been disappointing. Guess I’ve learned to steam milk better than the average teenager at a fast food joint. I bet I can microwave a frozen breakfast sandwich better than they can too. Mad skills, yo.😉

They over roast their coffee and it tastes burnt to me. I do most of my coffee at home with a french press. I can't justify an espresso machine ($$$) for home though.

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Starbucks is just not what it was. Wife gets them for a treat but we bought a kick ass ninja coffee maker and a grinder and have been doing it all at home. The savings allows us to buy the more expensive beans.

Plus I can now buy beans roasted in Canada and not support an American company.

We're broke lol

Yeah. Cause Starbucks over roasts their coffee to ensure consistency across the brand. It tastes like shit. Gas station coffee is better. You go to Starbucks for the milk shakes made in a coffee shop. You get coffee somewhere else.

Considering I have several actual good roasteries in town and pay the same price? Yeah, fuck the mermaid.

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Wait, you're telling me that when the economy basically collapses, people can't afford their regular coffee flavored morning milkshake?

I'm old enough to remember that when a Starbucks opened up in a part of the city that was known as being "slightly sketchy" then that area was in the process of starting to go through gentrification. now? at least here in Canada Starbucks is just a more expensive version of Tim Hortons who have some how made it possible for their coffee to taste worse than tims. And that gentrification stuff? nah man no longer applies. You'd be an idiot to go to a starbucks and pulling out your laptop to "work" these days as some fent head will just grab it off you after they wake up from their fade hunched over near the starbucks restrooms.

Growing up I could get good inexpensive coffee at any gas station across the prairies. Thanks Marketing!!

As someone from the PNW, I've ever understood why there were lines at Starbucks here. We have great local coffee stands on basically every block, and they're typically way better and much cheaper.

Anti-union strike-breakers are losing business? Say it ain't so.

Starbucks was an amusing rise and fall.

• Put one on every street-corner, possibly across the street from each other.
• Run all the other coffee shops out of business
• Let your stores fail because they can't sustain themselves
• Competitors notice this, and move in with drive-through-only stores

Of course the competitors are small chains and the original shops were indie, but that's just the free hand of the market fisting some folks without lube

They didn't revolutionize coffee culture, they just capitalized on it.

Starbucks has moderately tasty food, and disgustingly bad coffee. If they put enough sugar into it, it's fine... But going elsewhere yields better results.

Americans are pretty fucking disgusted that the CEO of Starbucks takes a private jet to work in Seattle from his home in California. Eat the rich.