Yeah economies fine everyone because you know how quickly americans skip coffee due to financial concerns.
A new Golden age for America!
Starbucks chars their beans because it masks the harsh flavor of the low quality beans. The other benefit for mega corporations is that all burnt coffee tastes pretty much the same, meaning coffee origin and crop variations aren’t important and every mediocre cup of Starbucks coffee taste the same. Whoever convinced the public that ‘burnt’ equaled ‘high quality’ was a marketing genius, but maybe the public’s waking up to the scam.
Espresso made using even using a moderately priced home espresso machine and high quality beans is far superior to anything Starbucks puts out IMO. The machine can pay for itself well under a year too.
Recession even hit the white girls with daddy’s credit card.
Closing the Roastery? I guess they can get fully fucked then, that was the only place around herethey were doing something unique. There’s a million places to get coffee around Seattle and they all sell pumpkin spice lattes.
Closing the roastery literally makes no sense
There’s already not that many tourist attractions in Seattle itself, the roastery is probably one of the few, and because of that it gets free foot traffic
In the sense that Starbucks aren’t coffee shops they’re investment portfolios, it probably does
Good. They openly support Charlie Kirk and his rhetoric. Fuck those boot licking anti union fascists
… They’re purposefully downsizing union stores more than others. They’re using downsizing as an excuse to union bust.
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Is not being able to afford coffee a good indicator of a looming recession?
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Closing unionized stores, eh? I’m sure that’s a total coincidence.
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Billionaires are your enemy.
Re 1, probably, but Starbucks isn’t just “coffee”, it’s like a luxury brand of coffee, lol.
When people can’t afford even the basic stuff, then I’d consider it an indicator.
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Okay so I make my coffee at home because I prefer it that way. I prefer my french press and my mocha pot. I prefer not adding to the trash waste of disposable Starbucks cups, lids, straws. I prefer to grab a cup of coffee at a small local owned shop if I do go out. I also really prefer not giving my money to billionaires. I’ve been boycotting billionaires as much as I can and I hope you all do to. If a recession is coming I hope we continue to circulate what little money we do have within our communities.
I don’t understand the appeal of Starbucks. Their products are prohibitively expensive and aren’t even very good. It’s like the McDonald’s of coffee.
A big part of it is that they’ll let you have any weird combination you want. They’ve got a ton of syrups, different milks, cream, sweet creams, different roasts, different shots, a bunch of stuff and you can get it any which way. If you go to almost any other mainstream coffee place you won’t have nearly as many options and you probably can’t combine them in any way imaginable. I have a few friends who work at Starbucks and they’ve shown me some crazy complicated drink orders they’ve had to do before.
Now I don’t think those crazy combinations taste any good, I’ve tried some before that friends have liked or that my barista friends have given me as a taste, but if you’re someone who likes sweet drinks I could see the appeal. For what it’s worth, a vast majority of their consumer base (at least that I’ve seen and heard) are the exact stereotype.
The appeal is that it’s like the McDonald’s of coffee. Consistent, familiar, available, affordabl ish ( I know their prices aren’t good but most high end local places will charge a lot too). If you don’t understand McDonald’s then what about pop music? All appealing to the middle of the bell curve. If you are reading Lemmy instead of reddit, its less likely that you tend to favor the middle of the bell curve on other things as well.
Even McCafe is better than Starbucks.
Someone likes sugar …
Forgive me … for I am an engineer and we tend to be obnoxiously objective … but coffee is coffee … I tend to just make my own, and on a pinch. I prefer gas station’s for the convenience
I drink my coffee black, but I can’t do dark roasts. Messes with my gut. Starbucks always messes with my gut. But the medium roast whole bean I grind for the percolator every mornin? I can drink that all day, no problem. Gas station coffee tends to be pretty good. But hotel coffee often tastes like sawdust.
Starbucks has WAY more caffeine than most takeout coffee.
It messes with your gut probably because you’re getting 200-300 mg of caffeine when you’re expecting 100-150
In my city, we have hundreds of coffee shops. Which is good.
But they’re all priced like Starbucks. Which is bad.
More like the Dairy Queen of coffee. Basically desserts with a little coffee flavoring. Order a simple espresso and they break down in tears.
Luckin will eat out their soft underbelly in 6 months.
Yep.
Try ordering a dirty chai, you’ll probably just get a coffee and a chai latte poured together.
Socially acceptable/normalized morning milkshake addiction.
Thats the appeal of Starbucks.
They sell coffee flavored milkshakes.
And both sugar and caffeine are addictive.
Exactly. Crap for the masses. Worked for McDonalds.
Taste is subjective. Personally, I decided to stop getting Starbucks along with as many other US companies as I can manage, but before that I enjoyed them, so did my partner.
Overpriced, absurd wait lines and anti-union all for a subpar product so full of sugar it could kill a diabetic. No thanks I can find better coffee at a gas station
Once shareholders feel entitled to endless increases in profit, the writing is on the wall. You cannot squeeze blood from a stone.
I swear I’m not a coffee snob. I have tried tons of different places and brands, both in store and at home. I have only had 2 or 3 brands/stores that are worse than Starbucks. I just can’t get past the burnt overroasted flavor they seem love there.
I will say the roastery in Seattle did have a good microbatch specialty drink there, but even then, I’ve had way better.
Years ago my only exposure to coffee was through Dunkin and Starbucks. In 2021 I splurged on a breville bambino plus and grinder to try making my own because regularly purchasing from either was too costly.
I don’t consider myself a coffee snob either (the shots I pull probably taste like shit to anyone who knows better) but I’ve learned to make a latte that tastes good to me! Since then I’ve been given Starbucks gift cards around the holidays, and damn - they’re almost painful to use but have their place in an emergency. It’s totally the thought that counts.
Dunkin can do now wrong! How dare you put them in the same sentence as Starbucks! /s
Grew up on the east coast. Drank lots of Dunkin.
My go-to is a nice light roast. You get a better coffee flavor and a higher caffeine content.
Meanwhile I can’t go anywhere else because it’s not roasted enough. Burn it and dump it down my throat!!!
Stop going there, they don’t treat employees right.
A lot of people have, hence the closures.
Oh no! Anyway…
