• thorbot@lemmy.world
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    It’s your own damn fault for trying to get food at fucking Starbucks, the coffee isn’t even good unless you’re at pikes place

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        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 competitors at the low end. And Subway, period.

        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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            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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              I was in an area like that once. It felt weird. Like I stepped into some alternative earth history where the franchises and chains all had different names. It was basically the same items for sale however.

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          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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            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 Starbucks corporate has a stock price to worry about. 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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            There’s a “your mom” joke in there somewhere but it’s not coming to me.

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

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

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

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

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      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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        And in the UK is actually costs £5.10.

        This is just a lie, and people are (ironically) eating it up!

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        Exactly. A repost is a repost but this guy just Good Will Hunting and “pawned it off as his own”.

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        No, you could not be more wrong. We did not leave reddit just for the admins, we also hoped to leave low effort posts and outright lies behind, there’s no karma here so what’s even the point of OP?

    • Striker@lemmy.worldOPM
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      Who cares? Aren’t most memes posted on here coming from other places? Nothing wrong with showcasing content from across the Internet.

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        Welcome to Lemmy/Reddit. Reposts are lazy and low effort. If it didn’t happen to you, why are you posting it? You don’t even get karma on Lemmy.

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          That crazy part he did it for no reason. I am so glad to not be chasing karma no more. Unfortunately I still will go back here in Lemmy and see all my posts and comments see how they are doing.

          Didn’t realize just how addictive I was to those stupid upvotes.

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            I started deleting my reddit account and creating a new one every year because I found myself becoming too involved with my karma level. Fuck that

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          I never would have seen this without the “repost”. I don’t get why people are so offended about seeing something again. Don’t like it? Saw it before? Keep scrolling then.

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                I’m not sure what you’re asking? By the webui I just mean the default web interface of any lemmy instance (i.e. not through an alternative frontend or app)

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                  Thank you. I’m with you now. I just migrated over because I used Boost on Reddit and received a notification Boost was now available on this new platform 👍

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    I’d just like to point out that OP is either lying or has been scammed.

    Starbucks have consistent pricing and the most expensive sandwich in the UK is £5.10, technically 5.25 for a plant based breakfast item, see here for full menu prices.

    But people like getting angry at cost of living issues right now (understandably) so this will get hundreds of upvotes despite being a lie.

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      Lying. They reposted from a Reddit post that shows an eight dollar Starbucks sandwich.

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        Still a stupid price for a crap sandwich. As I said in another reply, come to France and you will get the same thing for half the price. However, it will be nice (can you beat french bread? I think not)

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            As an English person, a simple white cottage loaf cannot be beat.

            But I also love French and German breads.

            Fucking hell I love bread.

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              I may live in France, but I am English too. A simple white cottage loaf is great, that is indisputable. However the availability is laughable.

              When I lived in Portsmouth, there were 2 bakeries on the whole island. 2!! in my little town here we have 4 artisan bakers, plus 3 supermarkets that all sell really good bread. Just round the corner from my house there is a farm that sells bread (made completely in house) every Friday afternoon and people take the afternoon off work and drive 2 hours to buy it.

              French bread wins hands down.

              However I agree with you on one thing: I love bread!

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            Wars have been fought for less.

            In fact, it would not surprise me if an argument about bread was a factor in WW1.

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    Starbucks is a union busting piece of shit organization, regardless of their piece of shit food, fuck Starbucks.

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    I’ve clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.

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      Actually, you were right. This sandwich contains 2 half slices of cheese and 4 half slices of ham.

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          I don’t think it is. Look at the second slice from the top. There’s a hole on the left edge. If it was folded, I would expect to see a layer between the hole and the third slice. If it is folded, every fold is so perfect that there is no overhang on any edge. You cannot possibly fold irregularly shaped ham slices with that kind of precision.

          Source: I sandwich.

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    I mean you could see what was on it before you bought it, that’s on you dog. All you did was prove people will pay that much for a shit sandwich.

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    And they served it to you on a Dixie paper plate? I call bullshit but idk why I’m even posting here because you just reposted this in pounds instead of dollars LOL

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      I get the sentiment, but most places don’t have even halfway decent coffee shops. Everyone gives starbucks shit (rightfully so), but the fact is if you walk into a random cafe in America, it will most likely be inferior to starbucks. The level of quality in American coffee is just abysmal. And if you’re traveling, you won’t know if the cafe you take a chance on is a hidden gem (spoiler, it never is). I was in Austin one time and I found this hipster place that had great reviews on google. The interior was really nice, nice place to work, spacious, etc. The coffee tasted like dog water. It wasn’t mediocre, it was trash. I’m sure Austin has great cafes, but unless you live there how will you know? Starbucks is a consistent mediocre coffee.

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        Reviews are a bit of a shit show with everyone being used to Starbucks as the “standard” now. I still give the local places a shot when I travel. I find them rarely worse than Starbucks for a latte and quiet often better. Plus, you know not giving money to Starbucks and their horrible anti-union leadership…

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    this is the kind of sandwich i make while hungover, take one bite, and then go “oh god i forgot the mayo”

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    Just slap a label on it like with artisan bread and any hipster out there will grab it up yum…

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    I went to Niagara falls the other day and they were selling $10 pizza slices, my wife got one. I went to the grocery store across the street, bought a large roll from the fresh baked ones. Got cheese ends and ham ends at the deli aisle, and grabbed salad cup. It cost me about $8 but I got a much better, massive sandwich compared to what my wife ate.

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            That’s a great idea and I would like to see it here, but America has no real laws preventing billions of dollars of food waste, so companies never do anything like this.

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              Shoprite here in Pennsylvania does that all the time. TBF the shit is nasty and still costs about as much per pound as proper deli meats and cheeses.

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        No they keep going up cause we have shitty governments who side with corporations and don’t give a shit about us

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      Tourist hot spots are insane. I was having a cup of coffee in a small cafe at St. Mark’s Square in Venice and it was 6.50€ for the coffee and a 12€ cover charge. Rip-off.