I’m sitting in my local Starbucks – well, local is a joke, considering it’s Starbucks and we have six of them in a ten mile radius of my house, but that’s not the point.
The point is that they have their little tray of samples out this evening, and included are tiny-sized cups of “starbucks lemonade” and some delicious lemon crumb cake samples. I’m a true sucker for artificial lemon flavoring – it’s just so good!
I picked up a cup of “lemonade,” which looked more to me like an icy or slushie drink from 7-11 in a tiny cup with an even tinier straw, and sucked some of it out of the straw. Definitely an icy drink from your favorite local gas station, be it 7-11 or Quiktrip or Wa-wa or what have you.
Now, really, Schultz, who convinced you that you could sell an icy drink for four dollars more than I can pay for it at a 7-11 and people would actually pay for it? That right there is an example of paying for the label, not the quality. I’m a Starbucks fan, aficionado even, but I’m not going to pay four-odd dollars for something I can get in greater quantities at 7-11 for 78 cents. Srsly.
I’m utterly disappointed in Starbucks that they would cancel the Pomegranate
drink from last summer and send out a bad slushie instead.
If they cancel the Green Tea Latte, I’m going on strike. Or something.
