Starbucks - who can afford it anymore?
You might have the number one answer for companies that OUGHT to go out of business.
“Starbucks - who can afford it anymore?”
We haven’t been able to afford it for about 2 decades.
They apparently now have a new $7/cup coffee.
Starbucks is a cult place for many.
We have a new one, and it very busy inspite of a bad parking sitution in our downtown.
There is a merchant across the street from the new Starbucks, who has had a business and service shop for 40 years in the same location.
Recently, I was in his shop for my twice a year visit.
I had passed the local SB’s at about 2 pm, and it was packed with mixture or young adults to our local senior citizen boomer/hippie generations.
So I asked the shop owner if the SB’s was busy all time. He nodded his head and said yes.
I asked what the makeup of the customers was, and he said most apparentely didn’t have jobs. Those, who, were working came in bought coffee to go. The others came in for coffee/food and the WiFi for their Apple addictions to their smart phones, IPods, I Pads and a few with the bigger portable Macs.
He knew that many were local professional students at our local community college. He knew them or their parents or grandparents. I asked how they could afford Starbucks, and he laughed that their parents/grandparents didn’t charge for room or board at their home. Bus transportation is subsidized by our taxes with buses everwhere with minimal riders in the buses. There are several bus stops with a block or so or depending on the line, the riders could get off/on right by the SB’s front door.
This downtown SB is one of many over our little city.