Comments on: Starbucks Betrayed My Wife

By: eaniakou

eaniakou — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:09:22 +0000

I don’t find the coffee drinks at McDonald’s at all comparable to Starbucks in quality. If I’m at McDonald’s it’s because I’m in a hurry and just need something. If I’m at Starbucks, it’s because I want to slow down and enjoy something.

By: Claudia Salontai

Claudia Salontai — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:18:27 +0000

Just for your information–the coffee freezes at Mc. Donald’s are really good almost habit forming and much less expensive.
Just something you needed to know.

By: Steve Baranyk

Steve Baranyk — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:07:57 +0000

Good Lord, get a life!

By: Peter Bagwell

Peter Bagwell — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:25:49 +0000

I finally bit the bullet last year and joined the Gold club at Starbucks. The $25 fee saved me 10% off each purchase. My 1-2x per week habit, plus treating a few friends to a latte 1x per month made the price of the card worth it. However, they also recently changed the discounts so that now I have to have add money to the account to get discounts, AND bye bye 10%. Now the Gold card is free, and I get (1) free drink after purchasing (15). Needless to say, this is a serious blow to the 10% off everything I used to enjoy. Likely, I won’t stop going completely, but the infatuation with the card is over too. The baristas on Hall road in Shelby Township are the best, I will miss them.

By: lemmy

lemmy — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:38:32 +0000

WHAT!! Buy a Mr. Coffee and move on.

By: Noah Graff

Noah Graff — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:11:34 +0000

Veers, I will reiterate that removing the trans fats was a huge blow. They became disgusting. We’re not in New York, why shouldn’t we be allowed a few trans fats.

I got irritated recently when they got rid of their chocolate croissants. Finally they had a pretty tasty thing and they get rid of it. Want to know what the justification was….It was that the ingredients weren’t “all natural.” So I’m supposed to believe all those pumps of syrups that go into the new crappuccinos are all natural? If only you knew how important the Frap was to my mom. She’s going through withdrawal. When the frapps come back in a matter of months I predict, whether she will reconcile is anyone’s guess.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:44:30 +0000

The loss of the Rice Krispy treat was a deep insult which took months to overcome but at least there was still the Frappucino. Now Howard messes with that. But swarf will always be swarf.And “we’ll always have Paris”.

By: veers

veers — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:12:34 +0000

my favorite part of this story is saying that starbucks ruined they rice krispy treat by removing the trans fats. i am only hoping you were being sarcastic when you wrote that. lol.

By: Jim Alderson

Jim Alderson — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:19:03 +0000

Your poisoning yourself by eating at either place.

By: Deborah Rudy

Deborah Rudy — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:01:44 +0000

Lloyd,
This is the worst news I’ve had today! First of all, I once tried McDonald’s coffee drinks when I was on a long road trip between Chicago and Austin, TX. There was no Starbucks in sight. The comparable McDonald’s coffee drink was so awful that Ricky and I had to pitch them out the window. Now Starbuck’s has wrecked our beloved frappucinos? As I am still marooned in Austin until work on our home in Chicagoland is finished, I was literally in tears laying in bed Monday night, telling my husband that I missed my friends, and especially missed that I could not just run over and meet Risa for a Starbuck’s frappucino break on a moment’s notice. I said that. In just those words.

Starbuck’s customers are creatures of habit. When you wreck the drink, you wreck the reason to go into the store, and all the rituals and emotions that go along with it. The cozy feeling when you walk into a place where “everybody knows your name.” Howard, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE BURNING!!! Give us back our frappucinos. NOW!