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Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating (www.cnbc.com)

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Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks' head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's not even coffee. It's artificial sweeteners with a bit of sugar and some more sweeteners.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Mostly real sugar isn’t it? I always viewed Starbucks as kind of an adult breast milk. Sweet warm milk with a little stimulant to keep from crying on the way to work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's no need descend to such hyperbolic depths, there are plenty of factually accurate complaints against the company and their product.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? I wouldn't call it coffee either, in a sense that the coffee beans are not the most important ingredient of the drinks, in either taste or volume...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They sell that. They also sell tea and milkshakes, but you can go into any Starbucks and get a cup of drip coffee, or an espresso, or cold brew, or a mocha. But people like the sweet drinks and Starbucks is happy to oblige.

They roast their beans too dark because they care more about consistency than subtlety or complexity, their anti-union pushes are bad for workers, they displaced a load of small coffee shops (I have seen significant rebound, but that might just be my region), there's this new "supercommuter" nonsense.

Pointing at a Frappuccino and saying "they don't even sell coffee!" has no negative impact on their brand or business, it's a transparently pointless claim to the general public, and it distracts from the very real problems Starbucks has. (I think it mostly sounds like "popular thing bad" with a sprinkling of "America bad" Eurosupremecy)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well, I take their cold brew every once in a while (where I live is basically the only place that does it) and it's quite good. I take it with no sugar, only ice.