"You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living." - W.C. Fields
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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I thought that was Bob marley
If you call a cup of coffee “an experience” you can fuck the hell off.
Pro tip: you can buy one coffee from starbucks to get the takeaway cup, then make all subsequent coffees yourself for no more than 1/18 of the price, put them in the cup and then walk around outside looking like the sort of person who has a Macbook in their rucksack.
That sounds dumb.
You can reuse it like once but then it will get gummy
Ya. Buying Starbucks to use their paper cups at home makes no sense. You can buy hundreds of paper cups marketed for coffee for like $20
and there are better coffee than burnt starbucks. or make your own.
Why do free advertising for them?
I just bought a pound of coffee beans for $9, and I thought that was too expensive.
I bought a 3lb tin of Kirklands grounds for $24 and even thought THAT was too expensive
I'll drink to that.
It's sad so many choose Starbuck's over small cafes and drive-throughs.
I mean, if it was cheap, and good... okay? I'd understand.
But it's expensive. It's like the Chick-fil-a of coffee, except more pricey, and not even as "satisfactory" as Chick-fil-a chicken; Starbucks is no better than McDonald's coffee, to my tongue. And certainly no better mixed in a sugary cocktail.
Besides. Who doesn't love trying a small chain when they stumble on one? Like this one I found at a gas station in Florida:
Besides. Who doesn't love trying a small chain when they stumble on one?
Luckily in Europe the norm is locally owned coffee shops, bars, restaurants, etc.
If I see a chain I just prefer not to enter and go to an independent owner instead.
This is that same guy the was Chipotle CEO that made the sizes smaller, then denied that they did.
Starbucks’ coffee tastes burnt anyway. They call it flavor, but really it’s just there to cut the rest of the sugar syrup concoction thru call coffee.
Cheap burnt beans taste the same as expensive burnt beans. Convincing the public that charcoal was good flavor was marketing genius.
If I'm going to spend that on a cafe beverage, I have better options, like locally owned cafes that often have better quality and service.
What's to defend.. if people buy it that's on them?
Meanwhile yesterday i got an amazing 2 dollar latte at my corner shop. These ceo’s are insane.
Hahahaha
Holy shit. Hahaha
And then in other cases, certain people believe, ‘Well, this is a really affordable premium experience.’ Because they’re saying like, ‘Well it’s less than $10 and I get a really premium experience
The premium experience being that you get a nice looking cup of over sweetened drab. It's shit, it tastes like shite, buy hey, it's an experience that you can post on Instagram or whatever the fuck hipster influencers post their crap these days
we sell experiences!
What do you sell?
Coffee
Where is my noose....
his defendibg the beverage they serve as coffee is the bigger crime.
This is somewhat off topic but I see basically everyone in this thread saying they should or do make their own coffee at home. I agree! Starbucks has shitty fucking beans, but my favorite mail coffee service is YESPLZ it’s somewhat pricey compared to some of the bulk stuff some folks mentioned, but it is INSANELY good stuff. I like “The Mix” a lot, I know blends tend to get a bad rap, but they never miss. I make an Aeropress XL every day that I split with my wife, and then I make a single pour over for myself. We’ve been drinking YESPLZ pretty much every day for years and the week to week change in beans keeps it fresh but always great. I can’t be the guy who just drinks the same exact thing all the time so it’s perfect for me.
Well this IS what CEO's do best; defend indefensible products or services and make them appear the next best thing after sliced bread. It's their job, what do you expect?
Fuck all CEO's