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hatrack

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9. Starbucks pretty much defines "discretionary" . . .

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:19 PM

Thursday

See also: Las Vegas, Disney World, replacing a 3-year-old car with a new one, weekly trips to Applebee's, bouncy castles for your 1st-grader's birthday.

Jobs are drying up, inflation's roaring, and any number of things have got to go.

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Starbucks Announces Major Store Closures and Layoffs: What's Going On? [View all] youssef5070 Thursday OP

I'll take Coffee tariffs malaise Thursday #1

Price of coffee has at least doubled. no_hypocrisy Thursday #2

Locally It's competition from 7Brew. Chipper Chat Thursday #3

We had one open up a few months ago, it's always packed. Haven't tried it because lines are long. Silent Type Thursday #7

A few hundred stores closing out of tens of thousands is nothing durablend Thursday #4

Coffee costs too much, so many are making it at home or from other stores sakabatou Thursday #5

The cost of the coffee is irrelevant somsai Thursday #6

Like drug stores, they are overbuilt and expensive coffee is one of first things people cut back. Silent Type Thursday #8

They overbuilt, for sure. Conjuay Friday #11

Starbucks pretty much defines "discretionary" . . . hatrack Thursday #9

Exactly. I'm using k-cups now. It's just as good and more convenient, at only 50 cents a k-cup. nt SunSeeker Friday #10

People are realizing Starbucks coffee is not good Buckeyeblue Friday #12