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I don't understand why people like Starbucks so much. Their coffee is nasty and so is their food. But people are addicted to it. All my relatives have the app and spend like $50+ a week there.
Only reason I ever go is because I'm roadtripping at 6am and it's the only place open that early. The indie coffee shops don't open until 8am.
Starbucks tried to open in Australia but failed to get any significant market share because Australians just prefer drinkable coffee.
That's subjective, and clearly a large portion of people disagree with it.
Because the masses always know what's best and haven't bought into a trend.
Honestly their forte is consistency. You'll damn near guaranteed to get the exact same cup of coffee/latte and sandwich in the middle of nowhere Arkansas as you are in downtown NYC.
I just wish that consistent flavor was something more than ash.
Not joking, that is essentially the strategy. It's very hard to get coffee beans from a hundred different farms to taste the same all over the world. That task gets much much easier if you simply burn them to a crisp so that all the varied flavor gets burned away.
Where are you that indie coffee shops aren't open at 6am? I just looked at all the coffee shops near me and they all open 6:30 or earlier except for one located inside a mall.
Boston. Indies open at 8am and close at 2pm. Starbucks is open like 6am-9pm. If I want a coffee at 3pm I am stuck with Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. Indies can't afford to be open an extra 7 hours where they are doing very little business.
Redneck Florida here. We don't even have a Starbucks, but the locally owned coffee drive-thru is open early to get the high school kids.
Tbh a lot of gas stations are using better coffee. A lot of people stop at Starbucks because it’s on the way to work, and they add caffeine, iirc, so their coffee is more addictive.
Turns out that different people like different drinks. And that's perfectly fine.
For the same reason there are McDonalds everywhere. They are familiar and convenient despite almost always being inferior.
People don't go to Starbucks for the physical products, they go there for the complementary handjobs.