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Originally Posted by snails
they are a billion dollar company because their grande coffee cost 53$..
and the wifi thing was a stretch. but they are also losing money having people buy a single coffee and then loiter for 5 hours.
i know im not only speaking for myself when i say that when seating is limited its extremely annoying when everyone is sitting there on a laptop so thay can watch fcking netflix, write a screenplay or w/e
and yes i do get that some actually go there to do homework and for whatever reason they dont have a home.. or internet. but thats not the majority at all
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I get what you're saying and that was exactly my point in one of my points above about a 4 top and having a single person sit there for 5 hours buying a $3.00 Americano.
Problem is, that's what a coffee place is. To go surf the web/homework and lounge around for hours having a single coffee. But if you don't offer that, people will go to one of the big 3 for it.
You'll then say, hey that's not my clientele. Ok cool, what is your clientele? If you're telling me your clientele is the other xx% of the population that want what you offer, cool. As long as xx% is more than the other percentage of people that want a place like Starbucks.
In the past few years since I've been in business, I've only seen 1-2 Starbucks close down. That's a pretty damn good ratio of success to failure so I doubt they are losing money.
Ironically, one of the locations that closed down was in Aberdeen centre in the heart of Richmond. Another one was on Robson where there was 2 across from each other, and it was because of a rent dispute.
Edit: again im sorry if I sound like a total ass, but I hate seeing businesses close down because owners don't know what they are getting themselves into. It's a 99% chance your business will fail. Why we try I have no fucking clue.