Gothamist: Starbucks Wants Customers to Please Come Again

heycarrieann

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:44:45 -0500

i totally agree with interlard, drop the grossly inflated prices, please speed up the process, and kick out the dead beats who take up residency with a cup of water and the free ny times...and moms, fold up the strollers.

swag

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:32:41 -0500

That's not desperate. At least not yet. Desperate is Howard Schultz changing his name to "Crazy" Howard Schultz, and his persona beckoning to us, "Are we crazy to give these kinds of deals away? Just wait for our Christmas in August sale. Our prices are IN-SAA-AA-AA-NE!" And then proceeding to get get 8 years of jail time for fraud. In other words: give it a few months.

NannyState

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:37:00 -0500

Legalize Marijuana in New York and let Starbucks sell hash at all their New Amsterdam locations.

whitecastlerock

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:25:49 -0500

Starbucks coffee is just awful and expensive. Many of them in the city are just filthy with sloth-like staff. Close them all.

Kojak

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:21:14 -0500

Hes correct. Hipsters are too poor to afford Starbucks on a regular basis. As long as the corner guy is selling coffee at 50-75 cents, Starbucks has some catching up to do. Dunkin Donuts is better anyway.

brandonz

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:51:19 -0500

Twakum, it's the yuppies who go to Starbucks. You've got the wrong stereotypical white subculture.

twakum

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:33:31 -0500

The comment about the bathroom is right on. A crowded Starbucks full of hipsters writing their "screenplays" on their laptops has GOT TO STOP, Starbucks, are you listening? Drop the WiFi, make people leave if they dont buy anything, and fire half the staff. One surly comment from a starbucks worker kills a lot of peoples desire to go back. At one downtown store, the staff tells people who complain about the line "Sorry, we dont have enough people".

interlard

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:30:09 -0500

Nobody wants to pay that much to stand in line that long for a coffee drink. Drop the prices and speed up the process.

JenChungsBra

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:05:20 -0500

A small coffee at Zabar's is 90 cents.

pazzia

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:51:41 -0500

yes, i was in recently and it seems the regular prices have really spiked. does not make me want to buy coffee there.

billybob

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:59:41 -0500

All the have to do is charge $1 to use the toilets and the ones in Manhattan will be back in business.