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Why do people hate Starbucks?

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Every once in a while I hear people slagging off starbucks... why? I'm undecided, help me make up my mind.

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  1. For every person that hates starbucks there is a person that loves it. I'm not a fan because it is way overpriced and a lot of the drinks are fattening. They have drinks that are equal to a meal. I think a lot of people don't like it because they think it is superficial like Ooh I'm special, I have $8 coffee. Plus its everywhere just like McDonald's. And its habit forming. There are people who will die if they don't have it every morning. They closed for 1 day and people lost their minds.  


  2. THE ONLY THING I HATE ABOUT STARBUCKS, IS THAT I LIKE TO SMOKE AND HAVE MY COFFE OR LATE WITH IT, IT DOES OT THE SAME, JUST TO SIT AND ENJOY GOOD COFFE WITHOUT A SMOKE, I DONT LIKE. SO I JUST GET MY COFFE SIT OUTSIDE AND JUST ENJOY.  

  3. because it tastes like p**p in a cup

  4. I don't HATE it but I don't like it because I don't drink cofee at all.  

  5. Most of the time people "hate" Starbucks is because it's too expensive. But you get what you pay for. Go to Wal-Mart and get some cheap commercial coffee, try it. It tastes really stale. Now go to Starbucks and ask for a cup of coffee. It's fresh and tastes a whole lot better!!

    Edit to Tom: No I wasn't comparing espresso. If you read my post, you would've seen that I wrote "ask for a cup of COFFEE". Nowhere in my reply did I mention the word espresso or even tell people to go to starbucks and get a solo, doppio or whatever. Learn your terms. I'm a barista, I would know.

  6. I don't hate Starbucks just most of the people who worship it and go there everyday. I'm sorry but I think coffee is coffee with maybe some cream and sugar, but when you add whip cream, milk, ice, caramel it is more like a milkshake than coffee. I just don't see what the big fascination with starbucks is. There are other coffee places that make the exact same thing for less money. There are girls in my office and sometimes when they ask me if I want anything from starbucks I tell them that I don't drink coffee and they act as if I'm completely insane. "You don't drink coffee? Why? But it's starbucks."


  7. It's usually because Starbucks overcharges for their products. Coffee should not cost as much as it does at Starbucks. Other than that, though, Starbucks is spreading all across the nation and the world, and some people are suspicious of any chain franchise that tries to set up shop in every single city on the map. To such people, it feels kinda like they're trying to take over the world through coffee.

  8. b/c there's a lot of white people there just typing in their laptops and talking on their cellphone. They think it's cool and they are trying to start a trend.


  9. It's over-priced

  10. There is nothing special about Starbucks. Generic coffee, generic stores, bleh, bleh, bleh.

    It's the McDonald's of coffee.

    The reason the person above says it tastes better is because they are comparing espresso vs coffee grinds.

    Any espresso machine will make coffee like starbucks.

  11. i love starbucks... everything from there is really good. I get a caramel frappucinno with extra whipped cream. It is overpriced but for me its a great treat every once in a while.  

  12. Haven't you seen the Austin Powers movies?  It's because Starbucks is owned and operated by.......DR. EVIL!  Mwahahahahaha!

  13. The reason I dog Starbucks is because they are WAY overpriced for their coffee.  

    I'll give you the perfect example.  At the Sideling Hill service plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a 20 oz coffee at Starbucks costs $2.99.  When they reopened the plaza on Memorial Day weekend, they attached the A+ Mini-Mart which used to be a separate building.  You can get a 24 oz coffee there for $1.59.  

    And what's odd is there is ALWAYS a line at the Starbucks and next to nobody getting coffee at the A+.  The Starbucks coffee is only slightly better, and A+ offers nine different kinds of coffee, and they offer all sorts of extras for your coffee (ie different flavored creamers, different flavorings for your coffee, plus marshmallows and cinnamon dots) at no extra cost.  Starbucks wants extra for flavor shots.

  14. it's overrated.

  15. not alot o fpeople hate starbucks so i dont know wat you mean by that.

  16. some peeps dont like it cause it tastes burnt to them.  starbucks is good in my oppinion though and i definently don't hate it.

  17. Because it is very overpriced. I love coffee and I have been to Starbucks numerous times and I have not been impressed yet. I actually just got a cup at Dunkin Donuts over the weekend and loved it. Try it sometime so you can compare them.

  18. Well, I don't hate it. I love it. But people think Starbucks is closing down Mom and Pop coffee shops. But statistics show that Mom and Pop shops are doing better when a Starbucks move in! Weird, huh?

  19. who hate's starbucks????

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