Tag: Starbucks
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Just a plastic cup
I decided to pop over to Starbucks to get some work done. A table and wifi in the middle of a busy morning seemed like a good idea. But then I pulled up, noticing the typically abandoned parking lot, buzzing with activity. Alas, it is Red Cup Day. Each Red Cup Day, Starbucks provides a…
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More protein, featuring your Starbucks run
Starbucks recently debuted a series of high protein drink options. At the base of the drinks is essentially a “protein milk” or “protein cold foam.” You could add this option in to pretty much any drink. Personally, I would only do it iced. If you’ve ever been super into your fitness and added protein powder…
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Starbucks is getting rid of their most convenient concept store, but for good reason.
The algorithm feeds me every possible Starbucks story that it can. This time? Starbucks will be sunsetting its “Pick-up only” stores. These outfits are exactly what you might expect. They are places where the only means of ordering is through mobile. You can only pick up items and go. There is no where to sit.…
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The Starbucks secret menu does exists, and it can earn you 25K
Okay, if you have followed former and current Starbucks baristas on the internet, you will know how the secret menu has been the bane of their existence. Customers come up and order something like a princess drink, or unicorn Frappuccino, or death coffee with the expectation that the employees are full aware of the recipes…
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Now on to Starbucks’s big weakness
Okay, now we are in the second grid of your SWOT analysis. You’ve taken the time to think about your strengths. Now you need to figure out your weaknesses. (The opportunities and threats will come next.) When it comes to the SWOT analysis, your weaknesses are those things that have come up as issues over…
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Rethink your strengths, using Starbucks as an example
You’ve started your SWOT analysis, but you are trying to figure out what to write down as your strengths. Well, that should be easy. What are your strengths? What do you see as your competitive advantage? Okay, let’s take the attention off of you and place it on a company. Let’s use Starbucks as an…
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Faster isn’t always better
Too big a bet on mobile orders. A belief that drive-thrus would save the company. The new Starbucks CEO made this observation as he worked through the reason behemoth coffee chain was struggling. In pursuit of efficiency, they lost sight of customer experience. Faster does not always equal better if it causes you to fall…
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Gone is the Starbucks open door policy
Years ago, Starbucks had a PR problem. A group of Black cyclists had come into one of the cafes, were profiled. The brand then committed to an open door policies, saying that their stores (specifically the bathrooms) were for everyone. No one was to be kicked out. Years later now, in 2025, the brand did…
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So Starbucks plastic cups take a different journey
All of the plastic cups were found in an incinerator in Alabama. They took the journey from the recycling bin in a Massachusetts Starbucks, not to be used to make new plastic items but to be destroyed and thrown into the waste pile. The article was calling in to question the coffee chain’s practices and…
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I finally tried the Oleato drinks at Starbucks, but this is more than just a review.
I finally tried the Oleato drinks at Starbucks. They were available at the Starbucks in Manchester, CT. I hadn’t seen them anywhere else, not even at the Reserve I went to in New York. The barista said they had the drinks since June. Upon the barista’s recommendation, I tried the Iced Shaken Espresso. Here are…
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