Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks

thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.

  Probably won’t be much cheaper but it’ll be ten times the quality.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.

    If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitor at the low end.

    You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Luckily the downtown in the city where I live doesn’t allow chain restaurants so I have many options for decently priced food.

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a great law if you can get it. Big parts of the NorCal coastline are like that and going there feels like traveling back to a better time.

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Idk…local independent shops aren’t necessarily cheaper. There is a local coffee shop somewhat by me and it’s more expensive than Starbucks. Independent places don’t have the advantage of mass scale like the big name fast food and chain places do. When I go independent, I often find myself paying more money for less convenience. So it’s not even just convenience that you’re sacrificing

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah that can be true. Not all local businesses are competitively run.

        While it’s true they don’t have the same economies of scale as large corporations, they also don’t have the same overhead. Starbucks coffee stands support a skyscraper full of bureaucrats somewhere. And astarbuks corporate has a stock price to manage. Local shops don’t have all that crap, and can often get away with charging less. My dad just charged 15% below the corporate shop down the block, as a rule, and it was still profitable.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also how else is the roof of your mouth going to get tougher without starbucks sandwiches?

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a “your mom” joke in there somewhere but it’s not coming to me.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Coffee will be better as well. Starbucks burns their beans so they can guarantee the same “quality” flavor at every location.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This I can actually weight in on a bit. They have their recipe under full version control and plant operations can only adjust it slightly without HQ doing an override. Not their air waste handling however, that is under local control.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I also heard the unionized stores don’t have bathrooms because everybody shits rainbows.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lmao

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  • MooseLad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How would that even make sense? They’re still getting their beans from the same source and preparing drinks in the exact same way.

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And even Pikes Place SB’s isn’t as good as a local cafe.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Starbucks coffee’s got nothing on $1 McDonalds coffee.

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  • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Truth

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what’s different about pike place?

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  • grte@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the original one.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not actually. That’s the second store they claim is the first. The real first was on Western. Coffee is the same though, you’re right, better to go to the roasterie

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    • giantfloppycock@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is the coffee actually different there?

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No. It’s a local myth that it is.

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      • Blastasaurus@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tastes the same to me.

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No. It’s a local myth that it is.

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    • Littleborat@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So now I have to travel around the world to Seattle or something to get good Starbucks? I don’t believe you, nice try!

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ That’s on us consumers.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pikes place

  Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆

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• 100@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.

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