Starbucks closing cafes; CEO calls performance 'not acceptable'

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

No... he/she/it is STILL trying to promote a dead thread.

Let it die already... you were wrong.

Have some dignity!!!!

a reply to: Lumenari

oh god you guys have the greatest threads....

back to ridiculous partisan politics and Russia in 3..2...1...

a reply to: Lumenari


I predict that in 1929 there will be a stock market crash of historic proportions. Bank on it.

originally posted by: Puppylove
Set ridiculous prices get ridiculous results.

Oh but after you buy 50 drinks you get a free one!!!

So it validates their prices, including the $3 slice of banana bread. Lmao

Its not like I can get a $3 loaf of banana bread next door at the grocer bakery....oh wait, I can

originally posted by: DBCowboy
Will the toilet's still be available?

Gotta use the toilet's!

They have to stay open for the toilets!



Great.


Now I have to pee.

Instead of locking the toilets in the "bad neighborhoods" they will just close Star Bucks there. Fixes everything...

a reply to: Xtrozero

It's pretty apparent that anyone infected with the mental virus of modern lefty syndrome will be destroyed

originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Lumenari

oh god you guys have the greatest threads....

back to ridiculous partisan politics and Russia in 3..2...1...

Why do you always get all the important things wrong?

First off, I'm not a guy and not in a club....

Second off, I'm not a Democrat so we won't be going back to partisan politics and Russia at all.

I was just pointing out that your premise is flawed... it isn't inflation or the economy that is hurting Starbucks.

It is their business model and their corporate stance.

Feel free to prove me wrong and not just sulk and creep away again...

a reply to: Lumenari

nobody cares, move along to your next most boring thread on the planet

originally posted by: Lumenari

It is their business model and their corporate stance.

Maybe they just have too many Star Bucks...lol

originally posted by: Xtrozero
Maybe they just have too many Star Bucks...lol

Supersaturation is certainly a concern along with local competition.

originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Lumenari

nobody cares, move along to your next most boring thread on the planet

Well, at least you took the high road!

By sulking and creeping off.

~sigh~

originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Bluntone22

if they could afford it they would keep doing it trust me especially white and Asian women

My wife has a little saying for the situation.

There is a difference between what we can afford and what we will afford.

originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: autopat51

they probably lost their business to Amazon

Maybe. My wife (and I) use to go to Starbucks all the time (two times a day some times) ... but we pretty much stopped going the last few years; with our mornings losing time to taking the kids to school and no longer having 20 minutes to blow standing in line at Starbucks. But besides that we stop buying desert drinks from them too, which we did all the time, because the novelty has worn off. We do still buy Starbucks coffee to make at home from the supermarket... I'm sure you can get them on Amazon too. Thankfully we haven't been priced out of the Starbucks market, yet, but Starbucks has gotten to boring to pay a premium price for speciality coffee.

Now I know mine is just but one anecdote ... but as I said in your other thread I dont think this is a good case for your argument that people are being priced out of the market... it could just as easily be that people just dont like Starbucks as much as they use to and Starbucks' golden age has passed.

Now home remodeling, upkeep and renovation... that's a better place to find a case of people being priced out of the market. You cant get bord of fixing up and maintaining your house ... but anecdotally I see less and less people doing it.

$5 coffee is BS.

I go to 7-Eleven where there are usually deals, like scoring any size coffee plue ONE donut for $2.00, can't beat that.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

Supersaturation is certainly a concern along with local competition.

I live in Washington state and Star Bucks is not the most favorite with the young crowd. Dutch Brothers and others are liked more.

Starbucks is the first thing cut when money starts getting tight... could be a bellweather for the economy? On the other hand, I have Keurig in my office, so I don't really hit up starbucks like I used to.

originally posted by: Edumakated
Starbucks is the first thing cut when money starts getting tight... could be a bellweather for the economy? On the other hand, I have Keurig in my office, so I don't really hit up starbucks like I used to.

Nesspresso rules!!

I just drink cat poop coffee anyway.

Hot and black.

originally posted by: Edumakated
Starbucks is the first thing cut when money starts getting tight... could be a bellweather for the economy? On the other hand, I have Keurig in my office, so I don't really hit up starbucks like I used to.

I think it's a bell weather like many other economic indicator's like what's happening with the car subprime market

I never went to starbucks before this year because I thought it was too expensive. I was wrong. A regular coffee is actually cheaper than what I get at circle K and tastes better.

That is a regular coffee I am talking about not that tooty fruity mocha crapaloa stuff people put in their coffee to make it "Not Coffee".

originally posted by: burgerbuddy

originally posted by: Edumakated
Starbucks is the first thing cut when money starts getting tight... could be a bellweather for the economy? On the other hand, I have Keurig in my office, so I don't really hit up starbucks like I used to.

Nesspresso rules!!

I just drink cat poop coffee anyway.

Hot and black.

I do like Nesspresso... makes better coffee. Love the froth. However, the pods aren't as readily available.