Posted on 03/23/2015 1:42:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Believe me, I don’t understand Starbux at all, other than that the folks running it are way smarter than I am.
It’s pure capitalism, nobody had to go there and spend money there, and they are a huge success.
And it’s not like a one time purchase, their success has to be based on repeat customers.
The bad thing is that you went in their store the first place
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I like the coffee, and I buy it in the K-cups for brewing at home. We don’t have a Starbucks in my town (ironically, our many liberals have kept it out because they hate evil chain stores, even though they have been proven to increase business overall). But when I go back to NYC or if I’m traveling, I’ll usually get my coffee there because it’s generally pretty good, pretty efficient, and you don’t get the precious attitude you get from some cute little coffee houses.
I just want a cup of coffee, for Pete’s sake, not to have to sign up against “climate change” (a frequent cute coffee house cause) or suffer through bad coffee because the place supports so many “good” causes. Starbucks, unfortunately, hos just moved out of the decent place to get a hassle-free cup of coffee into the stupid cute but confrontational coffee house with a chip on its shoulder.
The people I really feel bad for are the employees ... you can bet they don’t like this!
This is a great article! But I would have to say that today fact don’t matter. Emotions matter - and the stronger you “feel them” the righter your cause, or something like that. If we were going to talk about facts then the history of the Democrat Party should be listed complete with all the votes in both house of Congress showing how the Dems voted to keep blacks down. And please, please include Lyndon B. Johnson’s famous quote. The Republicans should have that plastered on every billboard in America. Maybe Starbucks would like to discuss that one.
Hysterical fallout. The “brave” billionaire who runs Starbucks thought it was a good plan for his lowest-paid employees to discuss politics with customers. The ridicule was so overpowering that the “brave” billionaire called off his plan - yet the “brave” billionaire was too cowardly to take questions about this catastrophically stupid plan.
Sorry, I don’t respond to guilt-tripping.
I happen to love their coffee - which I brew in my own coffee pot at home. If that upsets people - oh well.
“Starbucks features average coffee,”
In my not so humble opinion, you feature a tendency to be overly generous in your appraisal. I have never been in a Starbucks but I have tried a sample of their coffee that they sent in the mail and if that is average I don’t want to ever see any BELOW average coffee. I tend to agree with the “Ultimate Jew” on the quality of Starbucks coffee. To me it is the supreme example of the triumph of marketing over common sense.
I agree with the Lexus price but you have really been unfair to the Corolla.
You make a good point.
I’ll have to improve my analogy.
The black coffee is contained inside a WHITE cup....proof that the white man is trying to keep the black man down!
Customers can buy their effluent and feel good about what special persons they are, and how much other people will be inclined to see them similarly. For a limited but desperate population, it works every time.
Good post.
Sheer genius biz plan.
Dispensed daily at 21,000 locations.
“you feature a tendency to be overly generous in your appraisal”
Perhaps I did. Starbucks has many different coffees. The times I have been to Starbucks there were at least two different coffees to choose from. These are just coffees. It does not include the huge number of overpriced coffee based drinks they sell.
If I had been there enough to really evaluate their products they may rate much worse than just average.
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