I was annoyed enough to write all of this up. I used to go regularly, and the rewards program was genuinely a good deal, and made it worth going to Starbucks. Now, even if I set aside all of the horrible things they're doing, I wanted to show just what an absolute shit program this is, and why there is absolutely no use in trying to "gain starbucks status".
Even as an American, I've stopped drinking this garbage years ago.
Virtually every Mom and Pop shop tastes better at this point so do yourself a favor and support a local small business instead.
What the fuck are bonus stars. Why do they expire sometimes. And I can get fractions of them? Double star days??? Holy hell I this is the most overly convoluted bonus program I've ever seen, my local coffee place gives you a stamp on your stamp card and when you've collected 10 you get a free coffee.
I can't imagine spending $250 at Starbucks.
Last time I got Starbucks I foolishly used the card and was rewarded with 6 months of spam that my $0.02c of rewards was going to expire.
The solution was to never go back there.
Starbucks is American, not getting a dime of my money.
Most local coffee shops around me have a punch card buy x coffees, get one free deal
Yeah, this is some shit. I miss the days when you could pay like $50 for a year and got a card that discounted 10% off everything. I abused that thing.
Starbucks? Ew.
I don't even try to minmax these things. If a cashier is insistent and promises an immediate discount I'm fine with giving fake info.
They forced an update that won't run on my phone.
So I'm almost out anyway.
I like their chai lattes. I can't get the same taste anywhere else, and if I try to make it it's a "we have mcdonalds at home" result.
So about twice a year, now, I get a fucking c$6 latte as a treat. I miss 2019 with the many locations - one 80m away in my walkable block - and a really nice barista who made the effort to smile and chat directly. Now I have none of those things and this is like dia de los muertos.
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