Anonymous wrote:I only go to Starbucks 1-2x per year.

+1. Rare that I would go there.

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Anonymous wrote:If adding a few minutes to a Starbucks trip is such a big chore for you, why would you go at all? It's so cheap and easy to make good coffee at home, and it takes so much less time than driving to Starbucks and going inside.

Dude a lot of us live in cities and go to Starbucks that are like steps from our houses. I would never drive to a coffee shop. But I'd also never live in the sort of place where I have to drive to get to a coffee shop.

What about making the same coffee *inside* your amazing city home? Think that’s PPs point. Dude.

Do you know anything about coffee? Like drip coffee versus lattes or cappuccinos? Those require espresso machines. A decent machine is at least $400. For someone who doesn't drink it often, that is not worth it. I've done the math, and after you incorporate the beans, the milk, the syrup, it ends up being a few dollars for a latte at home. That doesn't include the startup cost of the machine and/or a grinder. It takes a few years until making lattes at home becomes cheaper than buying a latte at the store.

I love Starbucks and I love the app. I do hate feeling forced to have so many apps these days though so I can understand why people would resist.

They know me and only charge me 53 cents as if it were a refill. I wouldn’t get that with an app.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I thought nobody went to Starbucks anymore. There have been dozens of articles this year about how their customer numbers have been declining and nobody is buying their beans anymore.

I can tell the drive-thru lines are certainly shorter in the burbs the last 6 months especially. It's because pretentious women prefer to be seen sipping out of a Stanley now; the Starbucks cup may as well be a McDonald's cup. No cachet anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:If adding a few minutes to a Starbucks trip is such a big chore for you, why would you go at all? It's so cheap and easy to make good coffee at home, and it takes so much less time than driving to Starbucks and going inside.

Dude a lot of us live in cities and go to Starbucks that are like steps from our houses. I would never drive to a coffee shop. But I'd also never live in the sort of place where I have to drive to get to a coffee shop.

This is not the brag that you think it is. But good for you that have access to bleak strip-mall coffee.

Starbucks is prolly PP's "third space" because they live in a $2500 month shoebox apt with no yard. lol

Pro tip: You do NOT need an account or to be logged into an account (i.e. pre-load an account) to order through the app or their mobile website.

You can just order and use Apple Pay each time.

That's what I do. I'm not interested in 'banking' thru Starbucks app and have zero interest in a free coffee after 12 or 15 visits.

I only go once every other month, I get black coffee, maybe a PSL once a year as an afternoon pick-me-up. If the line is too long, we have coffee at work.

I honestly don't lilke Starbucks that much to wait for it so I only go if the line isn't long. Frankly, I'd rather have McDonalds coffee anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:If adding a few minutes to a Starbucks trip is such a big chore for you, why would you go at all? It's so cheap and easy to make good coffee at home, and it takes so much less time than driving to Starbucks and going inside.

Dude a lot of us live in cities and go to Starbucks that are like steps from our houses. I would never drive to a coffee shop. But I'd also never live in the sort of place where I have to drive to get to a coffee shop.

This is not the brag that you think it is. But good for you that have access to bleak strip-mall coffee.

The app was not working this morning and I actually had to go in! Damn that sucked lol.

Using the Starbucks app in the airport is a god send. I hate when airport locations don’t use it

Anonymous wrote:Wow, this thread really served as a good outlet for people to feel superior about never going to Starbucks, making their own coffee, and apparently struggling to navigate a phone app.

Yes, you are all better than OP. You are more discerning about coffee and you love interacting with other humans. Congratulations I guess. Yes I also sound tedious AF but otherwise, you're perfect.

OP started this with the same tone. “I saw people doing something differently than I do. Help me judge them!” I think when she calls the way people do things “worse in every way” or whatever she said people are going to point out what’s wrong with her version too.

Wow, this thread really served as a good outlet for people to feel superior about never going to Starbucks, making their own coffee, and apparently struggling to navigate a phone app.

Yes, you are all better than OP. You are more discerning about coffee and you love interacting with other humans. Congratulations I guess. Yes I also sound tedious AF but otherwise, you're perfect.

Anonymous wrote:I hate how I'm forced to do everything with an app. Paying parking meters, signing documents, paying my psychiatrist's bills, checking my gas and electric bill. Why can't I just be normal.

+1

Wow, I thought nobody went to Starbucks anymore. There have been dozens of articles this year about how their customer numbers have been declining and nobody is buying their beans anymore.