As of September 22, 2025, there are 17,286 Starbucks locations in the United States. Just sayin...
I haven’t been to a Starbucks in years. Not an essential industry. Many alternatives available. Cheaper (and better) at home.
In short, let them strike.
Is making coffee really a skilled trade?
I’ve never understood how unskilled labor can successfully unionize but I guess they can.
Personally speaking, I don’t see the attraction to starbucks but they seem successful so I guess they got something going for them.
As if coffee prices haven’t already soared and Starbucks is closing locations as fewer people make now expensive coffee runs (including my family).
“Starbucks is closing dozens of locations in California
...An unofficial list of closures circulating online includes nearly 200 locations, with the Los Angeles area seeing the most significant impact.”
They’re going to unionize themselves right out of a job. They can ask the fast food workers in California - after idiot Newsom signed a bill mandating $20/hour for fast food workers:
“California has experienced significant job losses in the fast-food industry following the implementation of the $20 per hour minimum wage law...the state’s fast-food sector lost over 23,100 jobs in the year after the law was implemented.”
They’re only hurting themselves.
If you think Starbucks is expensive now wait until the strikers win.
INFLATION oh high
With a Nespresso or like machine, who needs Starbucks. I make my own pods and far better coffee than I have ever received from a Starbucks.
Most of their employees are part-time. The only people that really stick around (for the most part) are the managers. These “unionizers” are going to kill the business.
My son worked for them part time for the better part of a decade and said that the workers should have more “power” in the company. So I asked him “What about the guy that started the business...worked his butt off to get it in the place that it is now? He deserves to be paid what he’s making because he took all the risk”. He did not know how to answer that question.
I wonder if there is any other places that one could get a cup of coffee during the Holidays?
These union leaders are morons. Overpriced coffee is one of the most discretionary items a person can buy on a regular basis. Telling their customers to honor the picket lines will only chase them to alternative coffee spots — most of them permanently.
I usually drink coffee at home. If on the road, 7-11 coffee will suffice.
They got upset when the company wanted them to cover their tattoos and limit facial piercings. Really!
Like Dims, using peoples suffering as “leverage” to get what they want.
We don’t need any six dollar a cup coffee.
Just shut down any store which has strikers out front. Keep it down for a week. Then, re-open.
Rinse, repeat.
Oh Noes! What will people do not being able to buy their overpriced burned coffee at Star*ucks? Logic says they will get their caffeine fix elsewhere and like it, and never return to Star*ucks. I think that it’s awesome that Star*ucks baristas and their union are the ones teaching people they don’t need overpriced crappy coffee and cutting Star*ucks business so that jobs and locations eliminated.
“What exactly is Starbucking?”
From the ‘78 Battlestar Galactica
What are the suburban white women going to do?