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      774 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        374 months ago

        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.

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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.

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            24 months ago

            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

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

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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
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              14 months ago

              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.

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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.

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          24 months ago

          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.

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            24 months ago

            McDonalds coffee is decent, at least in Canada.

            Tim Horton’s terrible.

          • @astanix
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            14 months ago

            2.95 for a default size black coffee at the one closest to me right now

            • @littletoolshed
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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.

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                24 months ago

                Grande, northeast Ohio

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

      • @njm1314
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        24 months ago

        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.