The company’s same-store sales fell 3% in the quarter, fueled by a 5% decline in transactions.
  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Personally I resent how they redefine sizes.

    I want a coffee I don’t want to have to read in English to twat translation guide to be able to order one.

    • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This! God damn I’m so sick of asking for a large and they give me a Venti (aka extra large) telling me “oh thats what you asked for”

      You do realize your shitty size names actually have some meaning in other languages right? Grande = Large. Also 16oz = large.

      That said, I think I go to them like 2 times a year now when everything else is closed and I have to choose between them and Tim Horton’s.

      Also, fuck corps and their decision to upsize a large to 20oz in other companies. Can’t remember exactly when that started (15 years ago or so?) however I think the first ones to do it were McDonalds and Tim Horton’s here in Canada.

      Just makes me recall Super Size Me.

  • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Their prices are so expensive. Corporate executives do whatever they need to in order to increase profits right now, even if it destroys a customer base.

    Starbucks also often don’t have bathrooms anymore. Starbucks used to be a place you could go to, sit down, use a bathroom if you wanted, use the Internet, and then buy something reasonably priced if you felt like it, but also just be there without buying anything.

    Now they want KYC through an App before you buy a $20 Latte so you can get a QR code in the App to use a bathroom, if they have one. The enshitification is real and then they are shocked-gasp, shocked!-that fewer people are there. “Why don’t they like the QR Codes?”

  • vibinya@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Started going to a small local coffee shop a little over two years ago, and I’ll never go back to the giant chains. The people working are always happy, greet regulars by name, always go out of their way to interact or talk with me- usually remember something we talked about before, comp my orders every now and then, host little events, etc. It’s not just them either - I always have a way better experience going to non-chain coffee places. Oh, and the coffee is always waay better and priced better.

    • WhyFlip@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Bullshit on it being priced better. Provide examples, not anecdotes. Where are you located?

  • Kedly@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Damnit, they’re Union Busters? Fuck man, there goes my adult sugar drinks D=

    • Baguette@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      On the other hand you can now support local businesses instead of Starbucks!

  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Only down 3%? I was hoping more. Still, fuck em. Maybe fewer consumers want to pay out the nose for a cup of flavored sugar with coffee?

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Overpriced cafeinated milkshakes for adults makerating masquerading as “coffee”.

      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Starbucks customer: Ooof, don’t talk to me before I’ve had my morning coffee…Id like a Venti vanilla caramel mochaccino with 2 extra pumps of vanilla and double drizzle on the whipped cream…but low fat whipped cream

  • ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Watching them trying to bust unionization efforts in their shops just totally turned me off the brand. I haven’t been into one of their shops or bought any of their products at retail since.

    At this point I’ve found better local places but mostly I just got used to making my own iced coffee and it would be silly to bother going back.

    • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yep, this too. They used to feel cool despite being a large corporation. Now they feel like a corporate cesspool with Apps and anti-unions and $10 sandwiches smaller than the size of a drink coaster. It’s not fun anymore, and it’s not fun to just be there, especially with people running in and out with the App to just grab things.

      But look in the positive side, although they probably lost or will lose 30% of their customer base, at least they can increase profits by 1 percent by having more back-end tracking data to sell from some remaining customers willing to download a shitty ad-infected closed source App!

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I started boycotting Starbucks when I learned they had partnered with Nestle for store-bought products - their Sumatra and Komodo Dragon coffees were pretty good.

    I send an email every year or so to let them know, since boycotts aren’t effective if the group being boycotted doesn’t know why, with predictably apathetic responses.

    Anyway, if you’re a no-Nestle person then Starbucks is on the list…

    • bookcrawler@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Thanks! Did not know about the Nestle connection. We stopped going to Starbucks when it moved to a fast food type experience vs the cafe feel it had at launch here.

      Will be verifying they moved the hell away from Nestle before we consider returning.

      • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Awesome. Unfortunately the agreement was made “in perpetuity” so there’s no obvious route to them leaving Nestle.

        That’s part of why I actually email them, and in the first email I said that I’m bothering to send anything because I do really like their stuff, and I think their other charitible actions mean I can hope they’ll take customer feedback. As opposed to Nestle which I expect to tell me to gfm.

        I’ve steadily leaned away from that belief as the company digs farther in to being every crappy anti-labor chain.

  • ramsgrl909@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I stopped going there when I realized it’s all just sugar. All the yummy drinks are just sugar.

    My husband and I started going to the co-op and getting fancy coffee beans and make drip coffee each morning. Cheaper, just as delicious (if not even better), and we don’t have to go out