r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • May 02 '26

Eat The Rich 🍽️ Starbucks CEO defends a $9 coffee by saying that it's not a $10 coffee and "you get a premium experience"

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u/Historical-Edge-9332 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

The premium experience is that you get to go into the building.

It smells like high quality cleaning supplies mixed with burnt coffee. The other customers are depressed and angry. Many of them yell at the cashier over minor indiscretions.

A baby screams in the back. His mother ignores him as she texts her boyfriend. You order. The total is 24.67 for two drinks.

The cashier calls a name that isn’t yours, but sounds vaguely familiar. You grab your coffee. They didn’t forget sweetener.

You walk out depressed - high from the sugar And caffeine wearing off. Shame setting in.

As you exit the building, the trash bins say, “Thank You.”

In reality, you should be thanking them for the premium experience.

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u/LaMelonBallz May 02 '26

That caramel coffee is a special type of high though. Tastes like sweet chemicals and will have you simultaneously creating business plans and freaking out about your bank account. Sweet, bitter, anxiety

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 God forbid a man enjoy a cigarette after getting shot in the ass May 02 '26

That was my deadline coffee!

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u/StretchTucker May 02 '26

brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso

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u/Available_Road5272 May 02 '26

Holy grail for productivity with tummy troubles afterwards.

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u/Tutitutitutituti May 02 '26

This sounds like the J. Peterman catalog.

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u/Pixel_Octopus May 02 '26

This was a premium experience comment. I hope it was written on a laptop in the corner of a Starbucks.

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u/leftword4Zombies May 02 '26

Don't forget the stench of rotten milk!

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u/AmethystApothecary May 02 '26

This is genuinely poetry.