79 points

I’m not going there even more now.

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3 points

Stopped going when they made shit coffee.

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42 points

We stopped going. Our local coffee shop is better anyway.

Support your local businesses!

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-4 points

How’s the union there?

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10 points

I’d bet the locally owned coffee shop is operated by the owner and maybe a few other employees. Not really much of an opportunity to unionize there.

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8 points

It’s a valid question, but also missing the forest for the trees.

The point of unionization is so you can have negotiation power. At a local coffee shop where you’re one of 4 employees, you have negotiation power.

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First of all, before anyone gets excited, I get coffee from starbucks extremely rarely. A couple times a year tops.

That being said, I am not a supporter of starbucks.

Ok, now, my main point- For everyone in here just saying the coffee tastes like shit, Try to be more productive towards the conversation. The coffee tastes bad, is an obvious fallacy, as nearly 40 MILLION people drink their coffee. If the coffee tastes like shit, then don’t order a oat milk vanilla pumpkin spice chai latte.

The conversation is around starbucks trying to bust up unions.

Saying- the coffee tastes like shit (when 40 million people drinks it), is not productive towards the conversation, and does nothing to assist with the conversation of starbucks being anti-human, anti-union, and treating their workers like slaves.

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9 points

Their coffee tastes like shit and 40 million people have bad taste in coffee. The 2 can be true.

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3 points

Taste is subjective! There can’t be bad taste, there can only be stuff you don’t like.

So don’t be an asshat and look down on other people for what they like.

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5 points

It’s not the sugar that makes the coffee taste bad. It’s that they over roast it. Their medium is basically a dark roast.

That said, yes the bigger issue is what they have become as a company and how badly they treat their employees.

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38 points

Unions are great, honestly.

Instead of passively not going to Starbucks, actively support your local coffee shop instead as well. Their coffee are usually better and not burnt to a char anyways, plus, it’s not like pumpkin spice lattes are only at Starbucks.

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26 points

Who wakes up and gets in their car to drive to a starbucks to get their coffee? That’s psycho shit. Why wouldn’t you wake up and make yourself coffee at home and drink it while you do your morning stuff?

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4 points

A lot of people aren’t buying a regular cup of coffee. They do the iced ones with whipped cream and caramel. All the dessert type of drinks. At least that’s what I always see people drinking in the morning.

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3 points

I do it at home but I’ve been known to stop to my local equivalent of Starbucks instead every once in a while when I don’t have the time to set up the espresso machine and milk maker and then clean the whole thing afterwards.

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