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Starbucks is very profitable, let's not paint them as a victim because they need to pay an extra couple bucks an hour to some kids. Starbucks had net income of $4.2B in a down year last year because of COVID. Oh no, might be fewer share buybacks . |
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09-14-2022, 12:50 PM | #48 |
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I think it depends on the terms negotiated between the company and union, but I'm not a labor law expert. Hard to see it happening in most cases. Someone has to operate the robots unless you're thinking in some future world where robots means actual intelligence.
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LOL with a politically motivated take of your own.
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I see both sides but the cost of unskilled labor is absolutely stupid right now and worst of all, the quality of their service and production is decreasing quickly.
Lol @ people expressing opinions on how much profit is "ok" for a company to make. Please move somewhere else. |
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I shit you not, they actually discontinued their Almond Croissant last month, the one halfway decent thing on their menu, presumably because the cost to produce it got too high. Maybe the almonds threatened to unionize . |
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09-14-2022, 01:45 PM | #56 |
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I like Starbucks because it's consistent. My Vanilla Cream Cold Brew always tastes the same. Dunkin for instance is very hit or miss. When it's good it's great but when it's bad it's horrible. I know what I'm getting.
It's just too damn expensive now. A venti iced coffee is almost $5. |
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Trash coffee, trash lines, trash sippy cups that spill out of the sides every single time. But people keep going back and as much as I dislike their coffee, if there's a demand allowing them to sell 10 cent coffee for 10 dollars then more power to them. Capitalism > Everything |
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The only reason I visit Starbucks is because you know what you're getting when traveling or in a place without good local shops. |
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Hate you break this to you: Your employer is not your friend. 99% of them only see you as a cost on a balance sheet and if that cost can be minimized then good for them. They will pay someone like me $600k to do it. And the stuff I do isnt unskilled labor jobs. Its optimization of corporate processes. Intake, billing, accounting, payables, human resources, etc. You know what happens when we make those processes "more efficient" right? So union, non-union, apple polisher, gruff-but-effective guy, employee of the month, doesnt matter. If the company determines they can generate as much or more profit without you then, poof, you history. And the idea of "get a better job" isn't infinite. Anyone toured the BMW factory lately? Yeah, the jobs that remain are AWESOME. Instead of assembling stuff there is a guy monitoring the machine assembling stuff, ONE GUY. Its not like they replaced 300 laborers with 300 robot monitors. GM still makes a record number of cars in North America, they are just doing it with 1/10th the amount of labor. |
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What I hate most about StarFucks is the people who drink it. Also, it's fucking water and ground up beans. Their profit margins are through the roof(Same with Dunkins). F them.
A successfully running DunkinDonuts makes ~70% of it's profit(not revenue) from coffee alone.
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That's how it works in the United States of America. I was born in a communist country and I'm very happy with how things work here - why would I move? |
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Actually, they won't. The first thing the manager will do is cut hours to make payroll. They'll get around 50% fewer hours and won't be able to afford their own products/food.
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