It’s great!*

* If you like the taste of burnt.

It really does suck. There are independent coffee shops in almost every town. Go there instead

Same guy who shuttered the Chipotle corporate office in Denver and moved it to Newport Beach, laying off hundreds of people so he wouldn't have to commute. Real standup guy.

I used to like their hot chocolate, but they took that off the menu around COVID.

Taiwan Starbucks is entirely owned and operated by Uni-president Enterprise Corp. It was part of a deal where Starbucks, the parent corp acquired half of ownership in mainland China Starbucks while giving up all Taiwan ownership.

Over here, Luckin seems more popular than Starbucks, for similar, slightly better quality and slightly worse atmosphere.

Do Americans no longer have independent coffee shops and restaurants?? Is it all chains down there now?

I think in New England, Dunkin is a blood type.

Well at least it's subtle. It's only about three times the size of someone's house.

Outside of Japan and China, I have never had coffee from a random cafe that wasn't both cheaper and higher quality than Starbucks. That's not to say Starbucks is good in China and Japan, just outside of Osaka, the average quality is not great in those countries.

That’s not a boycott. That’s the normal market working as designed. If you love the coffee but refuse to patronise them, then you are boycotting.

Yeah I honestly don't get why anyone would choose Starbucks over anywhere else. The beans are badly burnt, the prices sky high and the company itself is scummy. Seriously go anywhere else. Good coffee is so easy to get these days

Ehhh, 900 jobs in the scheme of a company in the S&P 500 isn't necessarily very many. Those are usually companies with 10s of thousands of employees.

Actually they list on their website that there's over 18k locations in the US and Canada, so assuming 10 positions per storefront (likely an underestimate) that's only 90 locations being closed. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they see a similar amount of churn every year of locations opening and closing, with the difference being that these are locations being deliberately closed as a step in brand strategy

They're continuing to see reduced foot traffic and sales, so the boycott is at least boycotting.