• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I worked there back in the early aughts. It actually was a cool retail job that paid reasonably well, a few dollars above minimum, and you got company stock, benefits, a free pound of coffee a week or box of tea, you were invited to company meetings, free drinks on shift, and we did all sorts of cool volunteer stuff, like with the food bank and habitat for humanity, and we would do coffee tastings at events, all sorts of things. It honestly was a fun job lots of the time. It’s so sad it’s turned into trash.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Shop local. It’s just coffee. Don’t let the marketers tell you any different. For sweet creamy syrupy treats go to the ice cream store. Let’s not support the current system of the bigwig at the top who does very little and reaps most of the rewards.

    • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Plus ordering there takes 3x longer than if I just made a coffee at home. They are not convenient unless you are traveling and have no access to a coffee maker.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Hell even my regular coffee shop does most of the milkshakes fancy coffees that Starbucks does.

      I drink black coffee but they do look really good

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I have never gone to a Starbucks and I never will. It’s not that hard to do that. They will never get even a penny out of me.

    • SippyCup@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Fair warning, if you’re brewing coffee at home it’s still possible to buy Starbucks.

      Most of the coffee at Costco is just rebranded Starbucks beans. A lot of dark roast coffee is secretly shitty Starbucks beans. If it smells like cigarettes at any point, you’ve probably got Starbucks coffee.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, same guy who fired nearly everyone at the Chipotle corporate office in Denver so he didn’t have to commute.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Of course that wasn’t the official reason he gave. He hired a management consultant group to do a study of where all the top restaurant talent was in the country. Surprise, surprise, all the criteria they were given led them to narrow down the ideal location for the corporate headquarters to be right next to his house in Newport Beach.

          • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
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            2 months ago

            How the fuck isn’t this stuff against business laws. How does this not break the fiduciary duty by self-dealing?

            If what you’re saying is accurate then he’s a pro at creating parallel evidence.

            Who am I kidding? Anyone who could bring a suit against the CEO probably doesn’t care.

            wasteful hubristic meatballs

            • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I’m theory, the board of directors is supposed to keep a CEO in check if they do something that is against the best interest of the shareholders. But the share price actually went up after he made this move.

              Same reason share prices often go up when a company announces layoffs. The market isn’t always tied to how well a business is run.

  • hopesdead@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Just so people are aware, Starbucks was caught buying from farms in Brazil multiple times that used slave labor. In Guatemala, along with Nestle, were caught buying from farm(s?) that used child labor.

    EDIT: On top of this the company partnered with Conservation International to certify the farms met the company’s standards. The incident in Brazil saw CI trying to coverup the certification of that farm. Also CI is involved with arms dealing.

    EDIT 2: Their retail products have the claim “100% Ethically Sourced”. That is a lie.

    EDIT: I got the slogan wrong. It is “Committed to 100% Ethical Coffee Sourcing”.

    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Their retail products have the claim “100% Ethically Sourced”. That is a lie.

      That all depends on which ethical code you’re referencing for your statement. I 100% believe that Starbucks sources according to their corporate ethical standards.