premium experience
I don't think I've ever had coffee from Starbucks that didn't taste cheaper than the grocery store coffee I buy for home. It has always tasted burned and too heavy for a light roast. Genuinely the shittiest coffee I could get outside of a 7-11 at a cafe that seems engineered to make me not treat it like a cafe.
one year later
"it's not an $11 dollar coffee, it's a $10 coffee!"
It's not over-priced. It's a premium experience!
Does that mean that it will be cheaper if you just go through the drive-through?
I would like to order one (1) “the experience of living my life without the ecological sword of Damocles threatening the biosphere and my future” please.
If capitalism can sell me that I will cease advocating for its abolition.
Until then they can all fuck off, their “experiences” can suck my toes. What other experiences are on the table? Or maybe off the table or under it. The “experiences” life under capitalism has provided.
You ever think about that? How we’ve all had to do fucktons of emotional labor in order to process living on a dying fucking world to ourselves and each other? Where’s my motherfucking salve for the existential dread and the scars I earned battling it. My mental health at having to make peace with my doom did suffer and I’d like some fucking recompense.
Since the pandemic started, Starbucks and other shops with cozy seating + WiFi have become essentially “work from home” quasi-third-spaces. I haven’t been everywhere but I noticed it was extreme when I passed through Texas and throughout the Midwest. I am pretty sure it’s an everywhere (in America) thing, plus the rising cost of coffee, and inflation in general
Faced with this, these cafes have two choices. One is to double down on laptop-free rules, either permanent or on weekends only. This can piss off customers and lose business. The other option is to double down on being an office space with a coffee bar. Starbucks and others have been moving this latter direction for years now. Drive-thru was always a ripoff, but now it is truly beyond the pale to order from these places if you aren’t planning to spend a few hours using the amenities.
Elites just can't help themselves but open their mouths and say the dumbest shit possible. Silence would be a better PR strategy!
$9 is a can of coffee I can make at home and space out over a week. idgaf about the E X P E R I E N C E
old mate steve jobs would have a field day with music pricing nowadays.
(also tf is premium experience, it's a coffee with socket plug)
10% margin. 90 cents out of every $9 coffee cup is going directly into shareholder finances. That's not beginning to account for the standard exec salaries and other profit embezzlement.
20% operating margin overseas btw.
The Arrested Development joke is gonna be real.
I think the possibilities of why he's said this are between:
A. He's trying to find a diplomatic way of saying 'We want more money; suck it up'
or
B. He does actually believe what he's saying because he's as detached from the average person as any other billionaire
As all these companies are pushing towards the right side of the supply-demand curve thingy, they're getting more per customer and less customers.
Liberals call this "economic efficiency" and remark that they are seeing growth. Others might call it "less production" and remark that this counts as degrowth.
As a crisis of overproduction brews, the GDP numbers go up and investment money chases after plentiful profits.
Yet, populism keeps growing more popular. Do the poors not see? All is well under the bourgeois heavens!
Isn’t Starbucks on the BDS list anyway
Nobody should be going to Starbucks.
I can make my own coffee thank you very little. Best cup of coffee I ever had was from beans I ground in a burlap sack with a hammer because I accidentally bought whole coffee beans instead of ground coffee, put in a Moka pot on a camping stove brewed on the sidewalk when I was homeless. Fresh beans, coarse ground, perfect extraction method using fresh clean water. Very easy to do.
Same guy who "super commutes" 1000 miles on a company jet, btw.
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