NEWS: Giving up Starbucks

I know this thread is starting to get ripe, but I just gotta say: I went to Starbucks this a.m. and the coffee they gave me tasted like ass/butt. This is happening with a lot more frequency lately. Burned so bitter it tasted like they added liquid smoke.

Around the corner from my house there is a Starbuck, and a grocery store with a Starbucks in it IN THE SAME PARKING LOT. C'mon, do we really need two in the same shopping center parking lot?
An independent opened just up the street. Brave of them. That's where I go now.

Thats to funny, starbucks is a fucking ripoff. come on $ bucks for a fucking coffee, shit I can go to ealmart and get a coffee pot and coffee for 15 bucks to last a month in a half, fucking starbucks.

"I know how my drinks will taste."

Me, too. They will taste like boiling-hot ditch water. Is that a comforting thought?

I work at Starbucks and I have to say that it really is the benefits that drew me in. Nowhere else would give me the flexibility of having benefits when I only work 25-35 hours a week. And to tell you the truth, I probably would buy my coffee at an indpepndent store-since I drink black coffee and I usually make it at home before I go into work anyway-but there isn't one here. Not within 20 miles. No joke. It's retarded. I'm probably part of the problem, but as of right now I can't actually afford to not work at Starbucks unless I never got sick or injured, which has never been the case for me. Does boycotting count if I still work there? Probably not.

Your comparison is wayyyyyy off. Starbucks does not charge $5 for a plain cup of regular coffee. While the price differs regionally...the cost of a regular cup of coffee is under $2. Locally...I think I pay about $1.60.

The infamous $5 coffee...is hardly coffee at all. Those drinks are the frozen- frappa-mocha-swirl-whipped-caramel-dessert drinks.

I'm not saying Starbucks is cheap by any means....but you should know what you're talking about if you're going to trash something.

Not every place has a good neighborhood coffee place. In my neck of the woods the only choice is Dunkin' Donuts and their coffee is shite! So when Starbucks opened I was very happy.

Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses

Shit, I was coming here just to post this.

I don't often get a chance to be proud of my hometown - but this'll do the trick:

Hometown favorite Broadway Cafe has been going head-to-head against multibillion-dollar next-door neighbor Starbucks in midtown for nine years. But not for much longer.

Starbucks on Tuesday confirmed that it would close its store at 401 Westport Road in late winter.

So did the little cafe take down the giant chain store like some small-business David slaying a mighty corporate Goliath? Some might like to think so.

Such comparisons were made in 1998, when Starbucks picked Westport - an area long known for its homegrown shops - for its first area location. The site was next door to and in the same center as the locally owned Broadway Cafe.

Why the franchise actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses.

i gotta say, it's a good job.