Starbucks Coffee Debate
Discussions center on the appeal, quality, pricing, atmosphere, and business model of Starbucks, often comparing it to independent coffee shops and questioning why people patronize it despite criticisms of taste and cost.
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People don't pay $3 for plain Starbucks coffee. They pay $3 for the atmosphere of the shop and the availability of a halfway decent public bathroom.
Maybe Starbucks likes locations where people can afford their products.
Not really if it's at Starbucks
My supermarket has a Starbucks inside, without seats or WiFi. It stays there because presumably people are buying $5 coffee from there.
Wait, why are we trying to limit the number of Starbucks?
I think it's more like not buying Starbucks when you own your own coffeeshop...
At Starbucks, it is more expensive to hire people to stand around making coffee all day than it is to purchase and roast the coffee beans. This is easily recognizable by anyone who knows how to make coffee themselves. The majority of the money you spend when buying a drink goes into that service aspect of the business. Somehow Starbucks has managed to stay in business despite the fact that what they charge is not the "real" cost of a cup of coffee.
It's Starbucks, there's no experience
yeah it helps out mom and pop shops cause starbucks coffee is fucking repulsive and customers should go literally anywhere else for a halfway decent cup
Starbucks is not locked up by money. On my recent trip to the US, I encountered quite a few (homeless) people in there who came to charge their phones and they got ice water for free.