First of all, before anyone gets excited, I get coffee from starbucks extremely rarely. A couple times a year tops.
That being said, I am not a supporter of starbucks.
Ok, now, my main point- For everyone in here just saying the coffee tastes like shit, Try to be more productive towards the conversation. The coffee tastes bad, is an obvious fallacy, as nearly 40 MILLION people drink their coffee. If the coffee tastes like shit, then don’t order a oat milk vanilla pumpkin spice chai latte.
The conversation is around starbucks trying to bust up unions.
Saying- the coffee tastes like shit (when 40 million people drinks it), is not productive towards the conversation, and does nothing to assist with the conversation of starbucks being anti-human, anti-union, and treating their workers like slaves.
Their coffee tastes like shit and 40 million people have bad taste in coffee. The 2 can be true.
Taste is subjective! There can’t be bad taste, there can only be stuff you don’t like.
So don’t be an asshat and look down on other people for what they like.
Who wakes up and gets in their car to drive to a starbucks to get their coffee? That’s psycho shit. Why wouldn’t you wake up and make yourself coffee at home and drink it while you do your morning stuff?
A lot of people aren’t buying a regular cup of coffee. They do the iced ones with whipped cream and caramel. All the dessert type of drinks. At least that’s what I always see people drinking in the morning.
I do it at home but I’ve been known to stop to my local equivalent of Starbucks instead every once in a while when I don’t have the time to set up the espresso machine and milk maker and then clean the whole thing afterwards.
I’m not going there even more now.
Unions are great, honestly.
Instead of passively not going to Starbucks, actively support your local coffee shop instead as well. Their coffee are usually better and not burnt to a char anyways, plus, it’s not like pumpkin spice lattes are only at Starbucks.
I don’t understand why people like Starbucks so much. Their coffee is nasty and so is their food. But people are addicted to it. All my relatives have the app and spend like $50+ a week there.
Only reason I ever go is because I’m roadtripping at 6am and it’s the only place open that early. The indie coffee shops don’t open until 8am.
Tbh a lot of gas stations are using better coffee. A lot of people stop at Starbucks because it’s on the way to work, and they add caffeine, iirc, so their coffee is more addictive.
Where are you that indie coffee shops aren’t open at 6am? I just looked at all the coffee shops near me and they all open 6:30 or earlier except for one located inside a mall.
Boston. Indies open at 8am and close at 2pm. Starbucks is open like 6am-9pm. If I want a coffee at 3pm I am stuck with Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. Indies can’t afford to be open an extra 7 hours where they are doing very little business.
Their coffee is nasty and so is their food.
That’s subjective, and clearly a large portion of people disagree with it.
Honestly their forte is consistency. You’ll damn near guaranteed to get the exact same cup of coffee/latte and sandwich in the middle of nowhere Arkansas as you are in downtown NYC.
I just wish that consistent flavor was something more than ash.
Not joking, that is essentially the strategy. It’s very hard to get coffee beans from a hundred different farms to taste the same all over the world. That task gets much much easier if you simply burn them to a crisp so that all the varied flavor gets burned away.
Because the masses always know what’s best and haven’t bought into a trend.
A moka pot and some illy coffee tastes better than any Starbucks I’ve tried and it’s way cheaper.
i wish more places served moka, but they don’t.
Moka is just the type of coffee pot. It’s not really an espresso as it lacks the pressure but it’s the next best thing.
Whether you go to Starbucks or not is kind of irrelevant. The broader population needs to know how Starbucks is anti-worker. They are happy to take more money from the consumer, and push the “partner” narrative, but it falls apart when the partners want to be treated with dignity.
That’s a story everyone needs to hear before they spend $5+ on a drink.
no dipshit. whether you got to starbucks or not is immanently relevant. if you go to starbucks, you should stop. if you don’t go to starbucks you shouldn’t start. it’s literally the point of the initial post and the discussion of it.
A wee bit aggressive there.
Read the rest of the thread. “I can’t boycott what I don’t use” is everywhere. A boycott is more than money, it’s getting the message out there, which was the intent of my post.
Boycotts are funny. I can’t boycott something I don’t really buy. I only go when a customer wants it. Otherwise I don’t go because I don’t like their product. Their politics are secondary to my decision their coffee is crap.
I keep telling people their coffee is garbage, but you can’t tell with all the sweetener and flavors they add. An espresso or regular coffee at Starbucks? 🤮
lmao at the nerd that replied to this
