• Jimius@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 days ago

    And it’s just mediocre coffee anyway. Roasted too dark just to keep a consistency in flavour between locations. Starbucks is a tax dodging lifestyle brand, they could start a clothing line and make the same money as they do selling coffee.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      I volunteer at food shelters, and every now and then we get something we can’t really hand out, like unground coffee beans, so I ended up with a large bag of some Starbucks ultra dark roast of some kind. Had a leopard? on the bag. It smelled like boiled cat shit the instant I opened the bag, went in the compost bin immediately.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    22·
    2 days 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
      6·
      2 days 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.

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 days ago

      But the local shops are often treating employees in ways that starbucks couldn’t possibly get away with. Source: ex who worked 14 hr shifts without weekends at 4 different places for a couple months each and came out at net negative.

      There are some nice places though, where barista is the owner, and not just some stupid rich kid trying his hand at entrepreneurship.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days 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

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    371·
    3 days ago

    Just for perspective here,

    1000 * $15/hr = $15,000 / hr

$96,000,000 / $15,000  / hour = 6,400 hours

6,400 hours / 40 hours / week = 160 weeks

160 weeks / 52.17857 weeks / year = 3.0663929655412174 years

    They could afford to keep those employees on for another 3 Years with that amount.

    • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Was it baristas that were laid off or office workers? Minimum wage for their corporate headquarters is a bit over $20/hour, and I’d suspect very few corporate employees are making only minimum wage.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        That might be fair, but “laid off” has the sort of vibe to it that they didn’t get to choose between minimum wage and no job. Also, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 and the minimum wage in Washington state, where starbucks HQ is located is $16.66 so yeah definitely would have to rework the math based on location of the layoffs.

        • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Agreed, just trying to point out that if the laid off employees were corporate, not retail, the $15/hr assumption is probably pretty low. If retail, those could be spread across the country, and $15/hr is probably pretty generous. Starbucks HQ is in the city of Seattle, which has an even higher minimum wage than the state (I think $20.76/hour now?).

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days 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.

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zipEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    They could have paid every one of those employees nearly 6 figures instead. If the company is doing so badly that they feel they need to lay off a thousand people, they should not be handing out CEO bonuses, period.

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days 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
      7·
      2 days 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.

    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 days ago

      The only reason i would go to a Starbucks is to look at the people working and buying coffee there. Or to meet a cute person behind the counter, but i have never nore will i spend money in that

  • MetalMachine@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Continue to boycott starbucks. There are many alternatives just as good and even better.

    And if you really want to take things to the next step, making your own coffee at home from freshly roasted beans is soooo worth it.

  • stopforgettingit@lemmy.world
    27·
    3 days ago

    This is the same douche canoe that was the CEO of Chipotle and denied that the serving sizes were getting smaller and told people to just harass the worker making the food if they thought their serving size was to small.

    • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 days ago

      Also the same guy trying to green wash plastic waste to be customer responsibility while commuting on a private jet from Southern California to Seattle.

    • The Pantser@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Wait we had permission to do that? I thought I was just being a dick and telling them to “keep going”. What a relief, too bad I won’t go back.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    31·
    3 days ago

    I don’t get it. We did not let kings and lords and counts keep their belongings. Why are we treating this scum any different?

  • FreddyNO@lemmy.world
    37·
    3 days ago

    So he literally stole their salaries. We can’t put up with millionair ceos anymore, it needs to be outlawed…

  • hopesdead@startrek.website
    95·
    2 days 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”.