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TheAlbatross , in Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline

They should try making good coffee

mp3 , (edited )
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The coffee is okay, but nowhere close to the price they’re asking for.

TheAlbatross ,

The pricing is also egregious considering I can make a far better cup at home for less.

mp3 ,
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You’ll always make a better cup of coffee at home for less.

But people pay a little extra for the convenience of not doing it. Starbucks however is banking on their reputation to overcharge, which seems to be finally backfiring.

xmunk ,

I will never understand people who get drip coffee at Starbucks… back when I got things from there it would just be the occasional over the top milk shake. Starbucks legitimately has the tools to produce ridiculous drinks with far less hassle then it’d take at home.

solrize ,

It’s like drinking Bud Light at a bar. The beer isn’t the product, the venue is.

ArmoredThirteen , (edited )

Yeah the only Starbucks in my area I’ll go into is the reserve but that’s because it’s just really cool in there. If I want a busy environment that feels like a steampunk world then it’s the place to be. Coffee there still sucks tho and even with the cool location I’m still only in there maybe a couple times a year

solrize ,

I avoid Starbucks for all kinds of reasons but can’t say it’s 100% abstention. Sometimes it’s just a little too convenient for that overpriced slop. Sometimes called Charbucks because of how the coffee is always burnt.

TowardsTheFuture ,

Is their coffee much more than $2? Last I remember, it wasn’t THAT expensive considering it isn’t shit coffee like a Burger King/McDonalds or etc.

Or by drip do you mean their like clover machine fancy coffees? I never bothered with those so idk how much that was.

astanix ,

2.95 for a default size black coffee at the one closest to me right now

littletoolshed ,

Ok but what is the default size? And where-ish are you? In the Starbucks app, it defaults to Grande for me and that is $3.45.

A Tall is $3.25.

A Short is $3.15.

This is in Northern California.

astanix ,

Grande, northeast Ohio

mp3 ,
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McDonalds coffee is decent, at least in Canada.

Tim Horton’s terrible.

Feelfold ,

I don’t like candy bars or milkshakes. If I’m going to a Starbucks its at 3am in an airport, it’s the ONLY option, thus I’m willing to tolerate burnt to fuck drip coffee.

catloaf ,

The coffee is better at home, sure. But I can’t make what is essentially a specialty milkshake at home without going out and getting the tools and ingredients.

Sometimes I can have little a of Starbucks, as a treat.

navi ,
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I just found a local place that makes a bomb chocolate coffee shake (I mean uhh. A blended mocha) and support them.

The worst part is that I can get Starbucks anywhere but only get my local stuff near home.

variants ,

In my town one of the two coffee shops closed down but they opened like 4 more Starbucks, we have 4 within a quarter mile on the same street it’s wild

hddsx ,

That’s… not true. I have zero coffee making skills and tools.

Aussiemandeus ,
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A kettle and some instant coffee, better then any coffee I’ve ever had from a shop

njm1314 ,

No not always. I knew this Turkish immigrant who had his own little coffee shop you could not make close to the stuff he made let me tell you. God I miss him.

Today ,

And not supporting the RNC.

Ghostalmedia ,
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How do they support the RNC?

…cert.starbucks.com/…/137-78795.pdf

DrWeevilJammer , (edited )
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Starbucks does not directly support the RNC. But that doesn’t mean that Starbucks’ lobbying money doesn’t primarily support Republicans. Per the PDF you linked, the majority of Starbucks’ contributions to lobbying organizations went to those that donate at least 75% of their lobbying to Republicans.

From your link: National Restaurant Association: 75% of all donations to Republicans; 50% of Starbucks’ donations to this organization went to lobbyingBusiness Roundtable: “75 percent of donations from the median chief executive were directed to Republicans”; 40% of Starbucks’ donations to this organization went to lobbying

Edit: Added the word “lobbying” before “money” in the first paragraph. Should have been in the original.

Today ,

There was an article during the convention that listed supporters. I’ll look for it.

ETA- my mistake. It was a fake that was shared on Facebook and Twitter. It must have been here too because i don’t have Twitter and my Facebook is only cats and relatives.

Nougat ,

They make desserts using coffee as an ingredient. That's why their coffee is shit at being coffee.

Vanilla makes a pancake delicious, but you wouldn't drink it.

noxy ,
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but you wouldn’t drink it.

Hey I had to try it at least once!

(Also: at most once)

Iheartcheese ,
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You should try again

noxy ,
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I resent you for the bad taste now in my mouth, but I thank you for giving me an excuse to break from doomscrolling :P

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

You just didn’t drink enough

cabb ,

Try vanilla bean paste if you haven’t - its actually good unlike the extract. Extract tastes bad because of concentration of cheap vodka, and paste has more vanilla so there’s less vodka per volume.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Also, good pastries again.

The good cafes next to me all have fresh baked pastries from a local bakery. Not Starbucks. 7-11 has better food than Starbucks.

stoly ,

My sister used to manage a coffee shop and says they would never hire former Starbucks employees because they are trained to make it very poorly.

Astronauticaldb ,

They never will though. Recently, they had “expert tasters” test how long their espresso shots tasted good, and their result was that “Starbucks espresso shots last up to 90 seconds.” This just so happened to take place right as they started introducing a new system on how to sequence drinks while on the espresso and cold beverage bars lol.

(Also, as a footnote, Espresso shots die after 5-10 seconds; the crema just dissipates after then, making the shot taste acidic)

Drunemeton ,
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So, off topic, but are you saying that I’m to drink a scalding hot, freshly pulled shot within 10 seconds!?

Astronauticaldb ,

Not exactly? Traditionally, it’s served in a 2oz cup and you would slurp it to coat your tongue and get all the flavors while not outright burning your tongue. Over at Starbucks however, we tend to pour steamed milk or ice on top to shock the shots and make them stay at one taste. A good example is a plain iced doppio espresso: it’s just ice poured over two shots, with sugar, syrup, and cream to preference.

Evkob ,
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(Also, as a footnote, Espresso shots die after 5-10 seconds; the crema just dissipates after then, making the shot taste acidic)

Espresso shots “dying” within 10 seconds is a myth, apparently started by Starbucks’ training funnily enough. The flavour of a shot definitely dies down as it gets cooler and the crema dissipates, but it’s a matter of minutes rather than seconds before a shot tastes bad.

Heck it takes more than 10 seconds to get the drink to the clients in every café I’ve worked in. If espresso dies after 10 seconds, I have never served a good espresso. I’ve also apparently never had good espresso at work, because I swear every damn time I pull a shot for myself a client comes right in before I can take a sip :P

GreatAlbatross ,
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When I read that comment the first time, I misunderstood, and thought they were saying espresso was over-extracted after 10s, dead after 90.

I know starbucks isn’t amazing, but 90s extractions would be a whole other ballgame!

GreatAlbatross ,
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When your coffee tasting notes are “burned, charcoal, ash”, and you make up for it by offering £7 worth of sugar, it’s not surprising when people only shop there for so long.

Grass , in JD Vance calls Trump ‘morally reprehensible’ in resurfaced emails

while he isn’t wrong, couchfuckers should also speak for themselves…

xc2215x , in Judge permanently overturns part of Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’

Good to see from this judge.

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homesweethomeMrL , in William Calley, who led the My Lai massacre that shamed US military in Vietnam, has died

I mean living in an apartment in Gainesville in obscurity is a kind of hell.

omega_x3 , in Trump offers "total endorsement" of two Republicans running for the same Arizona congressional seat

He is tired of the candidates he endorses losing so he is hedging his bet

ajoebyanyothername ,

He’s playing both sides, so he’ll always come out on top.

solrize , in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

A timely article about why this type of “rating” is a really bad idea:

The most chilling words today: I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you by Jonathan Turley.

awesome_lowlander , (edited )

The guy is a Trump / Musk supporter, he’s half the problem as it is.

While I have criticized Trump in the past, I have also objected to some of the efforts to impeach or convict him on dubious legal theories.

Yeah, those 34 duuuuubious felony convictions!

solrize ,

Turley has written a lot about the NY trial and his analysis looked ok to me. IANAL of course. But, those convictions didn’t seem to change Trump’s polling noticeably. We will see what happens with Harris.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

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lnxtx , in U.S. will buy regular flu shots for farmworkers to prevent bird flu from getting more dangerous
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Flu shots won’t be mandatory.

Idk, should mass animal farms be limited by density?

tekila ,

Let’s stop “farming” animals. I suggest converting these barns to mushroom farming, I can never have enough mushrooms.

RamblingPanda ,

There are people that don’t like mushrooms.

They’ll make a good substrate for the mycelium.

Drusas , (edited )

More importantly, mushrooms very commonly cause digestive upset for a lot of people, even safe ones and even when cooked. I love mushrooms and even go foraging, but I recently realized I'm one of these people.

RamblingPanda ,

I’m sorry for you. That would suck so hard for me, I love my little 'shrooms.

Tonight I’ll harvest my oyster mushroom, the lion’s mane needs just a few more days.

Drusas ,

Thank you. It is very hard. I spent years learning to identify and find mushrooms! I had just been looking to start cultivating them myself when I went on an extreme elimination diet to try and see what are all these things that must be upsetting my stomach. Mushrooms, which I ate pretty much every day and sometimes more than once, are sadly one of them.

That will not stop me from eating morels and the occasional chanterelle when I find them. Worth it.

Pistcow ,

ewwwww mushrooms, icky.

tiefling , (edited )

I do dream of the day I can buy more than mini bellas and white buttons at the store. Give me a nice big chunk of lionsmane or a bag of chestnuts

halcyoncmdr ,
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So… You just want more than 1 option at the store?

White button, baby bella/cremini, and portabello mushrooms are all the same mushroom, just at different maturity.

Drusas ,

Yes, but they taste different. If I'm at a store that only offers fresh shiitake and dried shiitake, that's still two different types of mushroom they have on offer.

Kanzar ,

Lions Mane doesn’t ship very well for commercial purposes. You might find it at markets… But you’re best off growing it yourself.

Fermion ,

I don’t think limiting density would control bird flu specifically considering that wild bird populations are high enough density to spread this disease.

I do generally support lower density farming though. Anecdotally, the white blood cell count of dairy cows on pasture is way lower than when they are in barns during the winter. And even the winter white blood cell counts on the small organic dairy farm I worked on was an order of magnitude lower than what is considered normal for conventional dairy.

White blood cell counts in milk are used as a proxy to monitor for infections. It’s impractical to test for every pathogen, but looking for the immune response of the cow works reasonably well.

user91 , in Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

It’s hard to comprehend how tragic and revolting this program was

return2ozma OP , in Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat
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AbidanYre ,

Michigan fucking loves her. Damn.

expatriado ,

also, Trump did nothing for them

Rhaedas ,

What state could claim he did something for them? That this once again is a close race constantly boggled my mind.

expatriado ,

state of dispair

dogsnest ,
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State of deez nutz.

Phenomephrene ,
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Ask Wisconsin how that Foxconn contract he helped secure for them turned out.

(For those not familiar, and disinclined to investigate further, the answer is "Not great.")

marx2k ,

Wisconsin here. I’m really surprised that vocal trumpers in this state aren’t strung by their balls by fellow citizens.

But then again people still vote for Ron Johnson and Robin Vos

FatCrab ,

I am one of the many Wisconsin expats that has abandoned the state until it gets its shit back together. The thing you have to understand about the Wisconsin electorate, is that, in the aggregate, it’s fucking dumb, mean, entitled, and will never reconsider its beliefs. The tea party movement really thoroughly fucked the state for the foreseeable future.

Phenomephrene ,
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That lines up pretty well with my experience. I lived in Wisconsin for about 2-1/2 years. It's not a state that has nothing going for it. The structure is absolutely there for it to be a successful and enjoyable place that residents could have right to be proud of. With what I encountered though the phrase Wississippi was very apt. And yeah, it's because too many people there choose for it to be that way.

FatCrab ,

WI used to be heavily pro-labor, relatively progressive, and on a positive track, although it certainly was struggling to come to terms with its historical blemishes that persisted into deep systemic issues (racism and segregation have always been a massive issue in the state, but have only worsened in the last couple decades). When the right overtook almost the entirety of governor for a long stretch, it utterly broke the state though. The upside is that WI and MN were functionally identical until one went hard right and the other soft left and the result makes a wonderful case study for how vapid and destructive the entirety of the US right and Republicans are.

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EmpathicVagrant ,

Is there a source or context? Otherwise this is just a random graphic

dogsnest ,
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It’s simply a reply, no more, no less.

However, I never like to leave an empty belly:

Sauce

Socsa ,

That’s 271 baby

dogsnest ,
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Talk dirty to me.

ayyy ,

The version of this map that takes population into account do a good job of visualizing just how disproportionately land gets votes instead of people in our broken system. engaging-data.com/county-electoral-map-land-vs-po…

MeekerThanBeaker ,

Also, Trump’s a rapist, convicted felon, and just plain weird.

dogsnest ,
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I’m glad you went easy on the lying treasonous cowardly pedophile traitor, Fatty McFelon.
Warms me heart.

ThePantser ,
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Yes, yes we do. We love women leaders, we keep voting for them.

Beaver ,
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Kamala Harris is going to wipe the floor with Trump.

Lost_My_Mind ,

I need you to be right.

Drunemeton ,
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We are!

She can’t do it alone, and we can’t assume that she’ll win. Keep pushing until she’s sworn in Jan 2025.

This is Trump’s last chance. The republicans will literally stop at nothing to ensure he wins.

Socsa ,

Get your shit together PA. Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania is game over.

MelodiousFunk ,

Get your shit together PA.

Pennsyltuckians would be very upset if they could read.

kn0wmad1c ,
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Did they only take polls in Pittsburgh?

Cowbee ,
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Will forever laugh at the “Biden or busters” and Anarcho-Bidenists saying swapping to Kamala would be a bad idea electorally. Biden was really unpopular.

Omgpwnies ,

I think him “voluntarily” stepping aside helped. If he were primaried, that might not have gone as well as it would look like he got kicked out, and that generally doesn’t have a great result for the incumbent party

No_Eponym ,
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North Carolina poll respondents: “Black AND a woman?!” as well as “Black AND a woman!!”

eran_morad , (edited ) in Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline

$3/coffee or some shit. Versus like a buck for a whole fkn pot of coffee at home.

Draupnir ,

Try $6.75 for their new refresher drinks. Flavored water over ice. No wonder sales are declining.

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