Posted on 03/18/2015 7:42:39 AM PDT by C19fan
Maybe the S in Starbucks stands for Stupid.
What an annoyance, I would not care what the merit of the issue, even if it were on the level of “buy war bonds.” Print it on cup sleeves, slap it on stickers, whatever, I might look.
Is Starbucks prepared to have their Staff dragged over the counter and pounded into a pulp by Coffee starved customers ,LOL
The thing I can’t get over is the growing relentless drumbeat of “you’re white, therefore you’re irredeemably guilty of racism”. The contradictions and non-sequiturs are so dense in that sentence, and presented as so obvious & objective, that I get stuck in my OODA loop.
“Starbucks, the Microsoft of coffee.
Started off well, then couldn’t do anything right to save their miserable lives.”
So true about Microsoft.
As for Starbucks, you can’t argue with what they’ve done - convinced people to overpay in the extreme for their products - AND WAIT IN LINE FOR THE PRIVILEGE.
That’s genius.
Microsoft? That was shrewd contract writing and world-class timing. Almost all of what MSFT was about in the 90’s was exploiting their monopoly position to the extent they could. They spent a lot of money on license monitoring and collections.
Paul Allen did what Gates paid him to do for a lot longer than he should have. Imagine a company that size, with that much money, completely SHUT OUT of mobile?
Government had a lot to do with that, of course.
Obama Says “Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4
Obama and the Thugs
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/08/obama_and_the_thugs.html
“If you want the next four years lookin’ like the last eight, then I’m not your candidate. But if you want real change...then I need you. I need you to go out and talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors...I want you to argue with them, get in their faces...you guys are the ones who can make the change.”
- Candidate Barack Obama to supporters September, 2008
I had a friend go into Starbucks recently and order a black coffee and the told him, with a straight face, “Please order an uncreamed coffee, next time”.
Ain’t privilege. Earned.
“Give me my coffee for free then, oppressor.”
All because those southern slave holders made them pick the coffee beans in the hot sun all day long. (’
Did some Crazy Liberal at Starbucks get a Bonus for this Great idea ? LOL
Once again... a Starbucks moment with Jackie Mason
This is a few years back so the prices are lower than now.
Jackie Mason’s take on Starbucks.....
You want coffee in a coffee shop, that’s 60 cents. But at Starbucks, if it’s Cafe Latte: $3.50. Cafe Creamier: $4.50. Caffe Suisse: $9.50. For each French word, another four dollars. Why does a little cream in coffee make it worth $3.50?
Go into any coffee shop; they’ll give you all the cream you want until you’re blue in the face. Forty million people are walking around in coffee shops with jars of cream: “Here’s all the cream you want!” And it’s still 60 cents. You know why? Because it’s called “coffee.”
You want cinnamon in your coffee? Ask for cinnamon in a coffee shop; they’ll give you all the cinnamon you want. Do they ask you for more money because it’s cinnamon? It’s the same price for cinnamon in your coffee as for coffee without cinnamon - 60 cents, that’s it.
But not in Starbucks. Over there, it’s Cinnamonnier - $9.50. You want a refill in a regular coffee shop, they’ll give you all the refills you want until you drop dead. You can come in when you’re 27 and keep drinking coffee until you’re 98. And they’ll start begging you: “Here, you want more coffee, you want more, you want more?”
Do you know that you can’t get a refill at Starbucks? A refill is a dollar fifty. two refills, $4.50. Three refills, $19.50 So, for four cups of coffee - $35.00. And it’s burnt coffee. It’s burnt coffee at Starbucks, let’s be honest about it. If you get burnt coffee in a coffee shop, you call a cop. You say, “It’s the bottom of the pot. I don’t drink from the bottom of the pot. But when it’s burnt at Starbucks, they say, “Oh, it’s a blend. It’s a special bean from Argentina.....” The bean is in your head.
And there’re no chairs in those Starbucks. Instead, they have these high stools. You ever see these stools? You haven’t been on a chair that high since you were two. Seventy-three year old Jews are climbing and climbing to get to the top of the chair. And when they get to the top, they can’t even drink the coffee because there are 12 people around one little table, and everybody’s saying, “Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.....” Then they can’t get off the chair. Old Jews are begging Gentiles, “Mister, could you get me off this?”
Do you remember what a cafeteria was? In poor neighborhoods all over this country, they went to a cafeteria because there were no waiters and no service. And so poor people could save money on a tip. Cafeterias didn’t have regular tables or chairs either. They gave coffee to you in a cardboard cup. So because of that you paid less for the coffee. You got less, so you paid less.
It’s all the same at Starbucks - no chairs, no service, a cardboard cup for your coffee - except in Starbucks, the less you get, the more it costs. By the time they give you nothing, it’s worth four times much.
Am I exaggerating? Did you ever try to buy a cookie in Starbucks? Buy a cookie in a regular coffee shop. You can tear down a building with that cookie. And the whole cookie is 60 cents. At Starbucks, you’re going to have to hire a detective to find that cookie, and it’s $9.50. And you can’t put butter on it because they want extra. Do you know that if you buy a bagel, you pay extra for cream cheese in Starbucks?
Cream cheese, another 60 Cents. A knife to put it on, 32 cents. If it reaches the bagel, 48 cents. That bagel costs you $312.
And they don’t give you the butter or the cream cheese. They don’t give it to you. They tell you where it is. “Oh, you want butter? It’s over there. Cream cheese? Over here. Sugar? Sugar is here.” Now you become your own waiter. You walk around with a tray. “I’ll take the cookie. Where’s the butter? The butter’s here. Where’s the cream cheese?
The cream cheese is there.” You walked around for an hour and a half selecting items, and then the guy at the cash register has a glass in front of him that says “Tips.”
You’re waiting on tables for an hour, and you owe him money? Then there’s a sign that says please clean it up when you’re finished.
They don’t give you a waiter or a busboy. Now you’ve become the janitor. Now you have to start cleaning up the place. Old Jews are walking around cleaning up Starbucks. “Oh, he’s got dirt too? Wait, I’ll clean this up.” They clean up the place for an hour and a half.
If I said to you, “I have a great idea for a business. I’ll open a whole new type of a coffee shop. A whole new type. Instead of 60 cents for coffee I’ll charge $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, and $5.50. Not only that, I’ll have no tables, no chairs, no water, no busboy, and you’ll clean it up for 20 minutes after you’re finished.” Would you say to me, “That’s the greatest idea for a business I ever heard! We can open a chain of these all over the world!” No, you would put me right into a sanitarium.
Starbucks can only get away with it because they have French titles for everything, bastard sons-of-a-bitches. And I say this with the highest respect, because I don’t like to talk about people.
The Starbucks coffee version of the Obama beer summit - “how clever.”
You can’t effectively assert that when their axiom is “they can’t be”.
I actually like their La Boulange cakes etc. (at least most of them).
They can’t seem to believe I want to order one of this item and one of that item (and no beverage).
The past two days the Coffee Bean place right down the street from my local Starbucks has had more people and cars than usual. Coincidence? I think people are tired of PC crap being shoved down their throats.
Sounds like Starbucks needs a little concentrated customer reaction, something non threatening, but disruptive say - demand a clean cup every time they write this on the cups; demand a new coffee, etc.
So, who will be the Linux of coffee???
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