• TheAlbatross
    482 months ago
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    The pricing is also egregious considering I can make a far better cup at home for less.

    • m-p{3}
      772 months ago
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      You’ll always make a better cup of coffee at home for less.

      But people pay a little extra for the convenience of not doing it. Starbucks however is banking on their reputation to overcharge, which seems to be finally backfiring.

      • catloafEnglish
        372 months ago
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        The coffee is better at home, sure. But I can’t make what is essentially a specialty milkshake at home without going out and getting the tools and ingredients.

        Sometimes I can have little a of Starbucks, as a treat.

        • navi
          62 months ago
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          I just found a local place that makes a bomb chocolate coffee shake (I mean uhh. A blended mocha) and support them.

          The worst part is that I can get Starbucks anywhere but only get my local stuff near home.

          • variantsEnglish
            22 months ago
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            In my town one of the two coffee shops closed down but they opened like 4 more Starbucks, we have 4 within a quarter mile on the same street it’s wild

      • xmunk
        162 months ago
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        I will never understand people who get drip coffee at Starbucks back when I got things from there it would just be the occasional over the top milk shake. Starbucks legitimately has the tools to produce ridiculous drinks with far less hassle then it’d take at home.

        • solrize
          112 months ago
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          It’s like drinking Bud Light at a bar. The beer isn’t the product, the venue is.

          • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
            12 months ago
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            Yeah the only Starbucks in my area I’ll go into is the reserve but that’s because it’s just really cool in there. If I want a busy environment that feels like a steampunk world then it’s the place to be. Coffee there still sucks tho and even with the cool location I’m still only in there maybe a couple times a year

            • solrize
              12 months ago
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              I avoid Starbucks for all kinds of reasons but can’t say it’s 100% abstention. Sometimes it’s just a little too convenient for that overpriced slop. Sometimes called Charbucks because of how the coffee is always burnt.

        • Feelfold
          42 months ago
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          I don’t like candy bars or milkshakes. If I’m going to a Starbucks its at 3am in an airport, it’s the ONLY option, thus I’m willing to tolerate burnt to fuck drip coffee.

        • TowardsTheFutureEnglish
          22 months ago
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          Is their coffee much more than $2? Last I remember, it wasn’t THAT expensive considering it isn’t shit coffee like a Burger King/McDonalds or etc.

          Or by drip do you mean their like clover machine fancy coffees? I never bothered with those so idk how much that was.

          • m-p{3}
            22 months ago
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            McDonalds coffee is decent, at least in Canada.

            Tim Horton’s terrible.

          • astanixEnglish
            12 months ago
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            2.95 for a default size black coffee at the one closest to me right now

            • littletoolshedEnglish
              12 months ago
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              Ok but what is the default size? And where-ish are you? In the Starbucks app, it defaults to Grande for me and that is $3.45.

              A Tall is $3.25.

              A Short is $3.15.

              This is in Northern California.

      • hddsx
        32 months ago
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        That’s not true. I have zero coffee making skills and tools.

        • Aussiemandeus
          -42 months ago
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          A kettle and some instant coffee, better then any coffee I’ve ever had from a shop

      • njm1314
        22 months ago
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        No not always. I knew this Turkish immigrant who had his own little coffee shop you could not make close to the stuff he made let me tell you. God I miss him.