"You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living." - W.C. Fields
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Pro tip: you can buy one coffee from starbucks to get the takeaway cup, then make all subsequent coffees yourself for no more than 1/18 of the price, put them in the cup and then walk around outside looking like the sort of person who has a Macbook in their rucksack.
That sounds dumb.
You can reuse it like once but then it will get gummy
Ya. Buying Starbucks to use their paper cups at home makes no sense. You can buy hundreds of paper cups marketed for coffee for like $20
and there are better coffee than burnt starbucks. or make your own.
Not as dumb as people who spend money at starbucks.
They still did spend money at Starbucks, making it a dumb plan
Their plan was pretty obviously satirical, considering the solution was just to look like you shop there while making your coffee at home.
It still involves shopping there at least once. Forget it.
Fair
Why do free advertising for them?
If you call a cup of coffee “an experience” you can fuck the hell off.
It's sad so many choose Starbuck's over small cafes and drive-throughs.
I mean, if it was cheap, and good... okay? I'd understand.
But it's expensive. It's like the Chick-fil-a of coffee, except more pricey, and not even as alright as that; it's no better than McDonald's coffee, to my tongue. And certainly no better mixed in a sugary cocktail.
Besides. Who doesn't love trying a small chain when they stumble on one? Like this one I found at a gas station in Florida:
Besides. Who doesn't love trying a small chain when they stumble on one?
Luckily in Europe the norm is locally owned coffee shops, bars, restaurants, etc.
If I see a chain I just prefer not to enter and go to an independent owner instead.
I just bought a pound of coffee beans for $9, and I thought that was too expensive.
I bought a 3lb tin of Kirklands grounds for $24 and even thought THAT was too expensive
Starbucks’ coffee tastes burnt anyway. They call it flavor, but really it’s just there to cut the rest of the sugar syrup concoction thru call coffee.
Cheap burnt beans taste the same as expensive burnt beans. Convincing the public that charcoal was good flavor was marketing genius.
What's to defend.. if people buy it that's on them?
If I'm going to spend that on a cafe beverage, I have better options, like locally owned cafes that often have better quality and service.
Destroying your local starbucks is the moral thing to do. The property is the only thing of value outside of their stock that they give a flying fuck about. Wait for the baristas to be gone. But shit like that sould be the next warehouses. Abhorrent to allow these billionaires to keep pissing on us.
Starbucks, at least around me, doesn’t own any property. They’re in strip malls or leased buildings. You’d have to destroy the stuff inside the Starbucks to do anything to the bottom line for Starbucks. and a single store? That’s a drop in the bucket for them.
I dont see the problem. The head guys have addresses. Feel free to take on your own project
No u? Why aren’t you out there vandalizing a shitty coffee shop? We need a leader! Show us the way!!!
It takes many small cuts with no specific leader. Either take part or keep sidelining yourself.
Yeah, I’ll take that option. Burning down a store is a stupid idea.
So is burning down a warehouse. Its all insured. But it gets their attention and reminds them who really holds the power.
we sell experiences!
What do you sell?
Coffee
Where is my noose....
Meanwhile yesterday i got an amazing 2 dollar latte at my corner shop. These ceo’s are insane.
This is somewhat off topic but I see basically everyone in this thread saying they should or do make their own coffee at home. I agree! Starbucks has shitty fucking beans, but my favorite mail coffee service is YESPLZ it’s somewhat pricey compared to some of the bulk stuff some folks mentioned, but it is INSANELY good stuff. I like “The Mix” a lot, I know blends tend to get a bad rap, but they never miss. I make an Aeropress XL every day that I split with my wife, and then I make a single pour over for myself. We’ve been drinking YESPLZ pretty much every day for years and the week to week change in beans keeps it fresh but always great. I can’t be the guy who just drinks the same exact thing all the time so it’s perfect for me.
This is that same guy the was Chipotle CEO that made the sizes smaller, then denied that they did.
Hahahaha
Holy shit. Hahaha
And then in other cases, certain people believe, ‘Well, this is a really affordable premium experience.’ Because they’re saying like, ‘Well it’s less than $10 and I get a really premium experience
The premium experience being that you get a nice looking cup of over sweetened drab. It's shit, it tastes like shite, buy hey, it's an experience that you can post on Instagram or whatever the fuck hipster influencers post their crap these days
his defendibg the beverage they serve as coffee is the bigger crime.