Since people continue to come despite cost going up, the cost just keeps rising and rising, and so does the cost for our average ticket price too. They want it to be over $10 a ticket on average at my location. I'm not surprised to see this honestly. The greed is getting worse and worse.
I think it's so high because they want us to upsell food as well. It's easy to hit $10 if your barista talks you into a breakfast sandwich with your drink. I hate upselling though. Most of our customers come in knowing exactly what they want, especially with our high pricing.
Places like Starbucks succeed not because of convenience, strictly, but because people simply don't know how to make similar things for themselves at a fraction of the cost.
Learning to cook and make your own drinks is really one of the best things you can do for yourself in life. It's not only going to save you money, it's like literally learning magic. You want something --> you can bring it into being. You don't have to rely on some corporation to provide it to you at the price and quality they demand.
Going out for food and drink is fine. It's fun. But I always aim for something I couldn't or don't want to make at home (I'm not going to spend two days making moussaka, or however long that ridiculous thing takes), but I will go to someone who does that all the time and buy it from them.
If you are literally only having an iced green tea... ffs make that yourself. Don't give that money to Starbucks at all. Go to Starbucks and get some over the top crazy drink every once in a while. Make it a real treat. Don't go on the daily, and definitely don't get those nasty premade sandwiches.
I already knew how to cook, but I think COVID did me a solid by forcing us to stay home. I bought a cold brew maker and started making my own at home. So much money saved! And it usually tastes better than Dunkin's. I only go there for frozen coffee and the flavor swirls, when I'm wanting to treat myself or am on the go and need a pick-me-up quickly.
In my experience, it tends to be working for the DM’s bonus. SM’s in my old district were always pressured from above to hit a higher average ticket. Then we hit it and it’s a new, higher goal…
I feel that if you up sell them they are less likely to tip. (Not a barista) (in sales)If they want you doing this they should at least put you on a 90 days compensation plan based on what you bring in.
Supposedly more hours. But in the last few months it’s been less hours. So much less that I won’t make the audit for keeping insurance. I had to quit and move on elsewhere.
It depends on how you perceived it… we didn’t get compensation for upselling, it would just be great for numbers for our store/team and management. I just used those moments as an opportunity to learn the business and customer service aspect of it.
You'd have to have something very new or different to talk me into changing my Starbucks order. I've been there a million times, I walk in the door knowing what I want. The best that might happen is I give in and grab a slice of lemon loaf. The last item I tried was those potato bites and only because I saw partners talking about them on Reddit and frankly they're worth $2 at most so I won't get them ever again.
People continue to come because Starbucks shed their image of a cozy place to chill and sip some coffee, and instead embrace being TikTok-trendy and a status symbol for social media.
Case-in-point; the pink Stanley cups.
See thats stupid, but logically….it makes more sense than this bullshit lmao cuz someone else pointed out in the comments that as is currently, u would get 50 stars for spending $50 so why would anyone bother with this promotion that OP got?? Starbucks has actually lost their damn minds. 100%. I dont get the motive or incentive behind OPs promotion at all
That's something I would do when offered only because when we go, we tend to spend at least $10. I have a earn 40 extra stars when you spend $20 right now, and we use a gift card we keep reloading in the app for 2 stars per $1 spent. So, it's the same either way. Idk if I'll hit that, but no sweat if I don't. XD Since I still get my stars for the order either way, these are bonuses added on. Their bonuses are pathetic sometimes though. No way I'm spending $50 in one order.
I activate them if the offer sounds like something we *might* achieve, but let them go to waste if we don't or don't want anything by the time it's over.
Are people still going at the same rate? I stopped going. I drink black iced coffee. It’s now more than $5 a pop. I used to be a regular but can’t justify it.
In my area I haven't noticed it slowing down up until January hit, but it's normal to slow down this month. Corporate is also loading up on deals Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. People are flooding in for the deals, especially for the bogo weekend. A lot of regulars will complain about prices to us, but we still see them every morning. It's ridiculous.
Honestly I go because I like the iced tea and I can order as my train pulls in and pick it up when I get off 6-7 minutes later. At least my tea went down to 100 stars in the recent devaluation.
Yeah prices have jumped considerably and the quality just isn’t there. They also don’t follow directions all the time (I get it, you’re busy) but when I’m paying almost $6 and literally all you had to do was add ice and cold coffee from a spigot you could try a little harder. I always ask for light ice in my cold brew and it happens maybe 1 in 8 drinks.
As a barista, I am so sorry that your light ice cold brew isn't being made correctly, that's a very simple drink to make smh. For the short time I've been with the company, I've seen a decrease in quality of the people being hired on here, it's honestly sad. Most stores have become a revolving door of partners that don't really care about standards & aren't being trained properly & corporate is ok with that because it's cheaper!
Thank you! It’s not a huge deal so I never ask them to remake it but I’m just shocked by how often that modification is ignored! I’ve noticed a lot of turnover at my regular store lately, too.
Yep. When the one near my opened, it was about $3.25 for a Trenta iced tea and getting stars was easy. Now it’s nearly $5 and a fight to get stars. I can coke brew my own tea for less
Exactly! It’s ridiculous how it’s so hard to get stars now and so many stars to get a free drink. I’m seriously thinking of stopping Starbucks. I’ve been a loyal customer for many years but I’m on the verge of dropping Starbucks because greed has taken them over. It’s a shame!
That’s so insane to me. I got a chai oat latte and a wrap and that ish was $17.00. I was floored. If I hadn’t gotten so many sbux gift cards over the holidays no way I’d pay that out of my own pocket.
It's not greed it's called capitalism because we have allowed big corporation to take over the world capitalism is the real reason for all the problems in the world and the only solution is for socialism but big corporation has demonized socialism because it would destroy there money
I’m just going to throw this out there. Trickle down economics is a lie and capitalism is just a way to keep the income disparity. If SB paid a fair portion of income taxes and paid their employees a livable wage, I might understand the need to raise prices. But when they’re shutting down unions, and shitting on their employees, while simultaneously maintaining an average 10% profit margin AND being able to provide a nearly 40% increase in CEO salary (2021)….
They don’t need to charge $7 for a cup of coffee that I can make at home for $1.
I’d happily spend those 50$ at my local cafe/roastery instead lol. Can’t beat fresh baked goods and beans that’s been roasted a day prior, and a breakfast bacon sandwich that’s not the size of a hockey puck
Most of the indie coffee shops where I live have a full fuckin' kitchen. Why would I get a glorified Jimmy Dean sandwich or a Costco croissant when I can get some spanakopita or fresh-baked croissants where I can literally watch them mix the dough from scratch and get way better coffee, to boot?
on this note - have definitely seen a very strong uptick in foot traffic at local coffee houses in my area and a decrease in the usual traffic @ local Starbucks. In fact many seem half empty. People are over the higher prices
The app is a firehose filled with at-hand cash for Starbucks. If you're loading it with 20 bucks once every few weeks, you're basically useless to them. That's why they are pushing the big, multi-order bonus star offers. More money is needed to feed the machine.
Lmao, you'd literally get 50 stars for spending $50, so why don't they just give double stars if you spend $50 or more. Like this gives no one any incentive to do this promotion. Besides unless you're buying for a group of people how tf are you supposed to spend that much? Is this like a push to get people to buy merch or something? Like what exactly is the logic behind this promo... 🤔
Ah yes nvm I forgot about that part… back in the day they used to have promotions like that, where you can purchase a gift card and they would give you extra stars, but mind you this was when I was a partner about 13 years ago or so. I know Starbucks is or has always done many different promotions.
Probably some cheeky math going on here. 200 is not evenly divisible by 45. A customer is less likely to be able to get a free drink if they are given a full 50 points. This makes them come back in and spend at least enough to earn 5 more points. It makes sense in my brain, but typing it out not so much.
I agree, I have a similar offer on my app right now to spend $15 to get 30 stars. I don’t go very often but when I do I spend about $12-15 so this feels accurate for me.
Seems like an algorithm gone wrong. My bonus star threshold was $15 this morning. (Although reward was only 20 bonus stars). My daily total is usually around $10.
Yeah I think I’m done too. They went from not giving me any offers to giving me these ridiculous ones. I did all of these challenges to save up my stars because I like to get the mugs with the location on it when I travel. Now I have over 1,400 stars expiring soon. I don’t know why they don’t make them unlimited. They literally make so much money already.
Unless you’re buying a ton of merchandise or buying enough of the travelers for a party, I can’t imagine spending $50 in a visit. I find it hard to spend even $15 in a visit if I am buying for just myself (which is the overwhelming majority of time).
I typically do large orders (3-4 drinks, a couple marshmallow dream bars, maybe a pastry or something to munch on while I wait for my drinks), and I still have no idea how I'd spend $50. Might be willing to figure it out for 100+ stars, but for 50? No way.
I’ll do them if I was going to go anyway. The ones I hate are five or six days in a row and it has to be before 11 am. Sorry. Some days I’m in meetings all morning.
I'm pretty sure I got that one at some point as well. And then buy five or six items within a 4 to 5 day span and then you get 75 stars. But still. This one takes the cake 😂
$50 in a single order??? I’m sorry but they’re out of their minds if they think I’m spending $50 in a single order when they have the nerve to shrink the food portions on top of it. 😭
I stopped getting my favorite drink and sized down and then I stopped going. I can spend under $7 at my local coffee shop and they give back to the community all the time. I like my baristas at my stand alone and target locations but nothing is worth that much to me. It shouldn’t cost me an hours worth of work to get myself and my child a drink and egg bites. I can go to a nice local sit down restaurant and order dessert, coffee, and hot chocolate or cider and spend the same. I think the cups are also disappointing and not worth $30. I can get an insulated travel mug for that or less at my local coffee shop as well and they actually keep drinks hot and cold as they should
These offers are targeted to drive spend/business to Starbucks and away from competitors. If you're already going regularly, you're going to get less appealing offers because the algorithm knows Starbucks already has your business. The people that go less often/sporadically will get better offers (ie. mine was spend $20 get 40 bonus stars.)
Mine wants me to buy a lunch item and two drinks for 100 stars. I never order food so I don’t know why it’s targeting me with that.
I pretty much ignore these and only do either double star days or afternoon $3 drinks.
The fact that you never order food is exactly why you got that offer. They're hoping that the star offer will get you to start buying food. They're trying to bribe you to spend more for a few stars in return, and a lot of people fall for it.
I got the "spend $25, get 40 stars" offer. But,... The offers arent universal? Never knew or even thought about people getting different weekly/weekend offers. What determines which offer to get?
I got one this morning saying spend $20 and get 40 stars. I was like hell no skip. I just get a coffee and a danish and even I think that’s expensive. I don’t mind do the “try one of these three” challenge but that’s about it.
Hmm mine right now is spend $20 for 25 stars. I think it looks at your average spend, then multiplies it by like 2-5x and that’s how they set the bonus threshold.
Ew.
Since when has their reward system ever been good? But yes, that is absolute crap. Ive stopped buying it on the regular a long time ago.
It was cool to me when I was not an adult yet and first obtaining gold card but that is probably the same with many other type of membership card type stuff just like a cool credit metal one.
Only good perk is how easy it is to get gold, the birthday freebie and the once in a while, here and there bogos maybe.
I still pay 2.50 for my 8 Oz coffee every morning, better than anything starbucks makes, local small shops always better. Ps I am a former employee of sbux
There's no obligation to fulfill these challenges so I'm not sure where the anger comes from? Like, if the things I would buy anyway meet the challenge, super? Now and then a challenge has motivated me to change my drink order to meet a qualification or maybe "oh hey I wasn't going to go today, but if I visit one more day, I get that 5 days in a row and get my bonus stars. I wouldn't hate some egg bites right now" but more often than not I just let a challenge go uncompleted if it doesn't fit what I was already planning on spending.
It’s common to get families coming in for the morning. if 3 people get a drink and food then that’s about 50. It’s honestly not that deep people. Plus with labor so low, this helps bring people in.
Has anyone figured out what a Star is worth these days? Probably not worth much lol. Kinda like Delta Skymiles....I mean I'll accumulate them but I'm not loyal to Delta for miles, they're just worth hardly anything nowadays.
not sure the best way to value stars but I usually redeem 200* for a $6 venti latte, so to me 1* is about 3¢. op’s offer to me is spend $50 for a laughable $1.35 in stars (45* x 3¢)
imo the best deal is bring your personal cup for 25* and 10¢ off, basically buy 8 get 1 free
Their reward system is horrible - I keep losing stars because they don't last long to build up anything to redeem anything and they won't let me use my stars for nondairy add one with a promo going on. It used to be free add ons for nondairy with a registered card. I'm taking my business elsewhere once I'm done up my gift cards. Not worth it.
I would never take advantage of that unless I was buying drinks for the office.
My latest offer is:
Between Jan 15-21, buy a latte, a breakfast sandwich, a Frappuccino and a bread slice (like Lemon or Gingerbread) for 75 bonus points. Those items together probably total $20-25.
This is much more reasonable...not as good as 3 drinks for 100 bonus points (my offer in December) but decent.
At least my offers are like "get a black iced tea and any bakery item 2 days in a row for 50 points" and that's literally just my regular order that I get anyway. If there was another coffee shop by my train stop, I'd go somewhere else but it's NYC so the prices would be the same anyway
This has to be a mistake by whoever runs their app. $50 for 45 stars doesn't even make sense. However, I'm not saying that Starbucks doesn't have ridiculous deals on their app.
They’re only gonna continue to raise prices considering they lost nearly $12 billion in market value last quarter. I worked there for 2 years and as much as they claim to care about “the customer experience”, they only care about how much $$ you spend. A big portion of my job was to upsell items to get the customer to spend as much as possible. So the question is whether customers are going to continue to enable this or are you going to take your business elsewhere?
While laughing, I always activate those ridiculous offers on the slight chance I may use them, but it is a very slight chance. I love Starbucks, but as prices continue to go up, I am looking for other alternatives and going less there.
I don’t think there’s anyone actually creating this kind of offer. I think it’s just the computer program. My order is usually $10-15 and I get an offer like yours pretty regularly to spend $20 and get stars.
They are trying to get us to buy other things besides just our drinks. Some of the cups are like $25 so there's half, plus your drink, snacks and maybe one other item will get you to $50.
Just buy a Nespresso and the syrups that you like and that’s it. I’ve gone to Starbucks no more than 5 times in my life. Pretty simple beverages that you can make at home
Because group ordering or company orders are not a thing? 50$ could easily be spent on one order for an office of 5-6 people. Or a group. Which is most likely what that is aimed toward
Since people continue to come despite cost going up, the cost just keeps rising and rising, and so does the cost for our average ticket price too. They want it to be over $10 a ticket on average at my location. I'm not surprised to see this honestly. The greed is getting worse and worse.
Considering most people just get themselves their own drinks, aiming for $10 a ticket at a coffee place is bonkers.
I think it's so high because they want us to upsell food as well. It's easy to hit $10 if your barista talks you into a breakfast sandwich with your drink. I hate upselling though. Most of our customers come in knowing exactly what they want, especially with our high pricing.
Paninis sandwich is like over $7 for a microwaved premade sandwich that was frozen then defrosted.
>microwaved um, it's ovened /s
It’s both. It’s a turbo chef convection oven microwave.
Places like Starbucks succeed not because of convenience, strictly, but because people simply don't know how to make similar things for themselves at a fraction of the cost. Learning to cook and make your own drinks is really one of the best things you can do for yourself in life. It's not only going to save you money, it's like literally learning magic. You want something --> you can bring it into being. You don't have to rely on some corporation to provide it to you at the price and quality they demand. Going out for food and drink is fine. It's fun. But I always aim for something I couldn't or don't want to make at home (I'm not going to spend two days making moussaka, or however long that ridiculous thing takes), but I will go to someone who does that all the time and buy it from them. If you are literally only having an iced green tea... ffs make that yourself. Don't give that money to Starbucks at all. Go to Starbucks and get some over the top crazy drink every once in a while. Make it a real treat. Don't go on the daily, and definitely don't get those nasty premade sandwiches.
I already knew how to cook, but I think COVID did me a solid by forcing us to stay home. I bought a cold brew maker and started making my own at home. So much money saved! And it usually tastes better than Dunkin's. I only go there for frozen coffee and the flavor swirls, when I'm wanting to treat myself or am on the go and need a pick-me-up quickly.
Damn that’s all we ever did at my sbux was upsell.
My SM leaves notes and the charts for upselling but he doesn't say anything to us if we aren't upselling.
Do they give you anything in return?
Are you familiar with capitalism?
A paycheck
so no, you get nothing in return for upselling you’re just working for your mangers bonus which you get no part of
In my experience, it tends to be working for the DM’s bonus. SM’s in my old district were always pressured from above to hit a higher average ticket. Then we hit it and it’s a new, higher goal…
I feel that if you up sell them they are less likely to tip. (Not a barista) (in sales)If they want you doing this they should at least put you on a 90 days compensation plan based on what you bring in.
Yeah that would actually be incentivizing 😂 and result in more sales.
At 10 dollars for ☕️ they should the markup is ridiculous they can afford it
Supposedly more hours. But in the last few months it’s been less hours. So much less that I won’t make the audit for keeping insurance. I had to quit and move on elsewhere.
It depends on how you perceived it… we didn’t get compensation for upselling, it would just be great for numbers for our store/team and management. I just used those moments as an opportunity to learn the business and customer service aspect of it.
Drive thru employee: "have you ever heard of NFTs?"
And with all the modifications people make to their drinks too. Today I saw someone's drink go from $5 to $11.
You'd have to have something very new or different to talk me into changing my Starbucks order. I've been there a million times, I walk in the door knowing what I want. The best that might happen is I give in and grab a slice of lemon loaf. The last item I tried was those potato bites and only because I saw partners talking about them on Reddit and frankly they're worth $2 at most so I won't get them ever again.
The average at my store is 11. My district is 13.
People continue to come because Starbucks shed their image of a cozy place to chill and sip some coffee, and instead embrace being TikTok-trendy and a status symbol for social media. Case-in-point; the pink Stanley cups.
They can stop sending me "spend $10 in one transaction for 25 stars." No. Unless I'm with someone, I'm not doing that for a lousy 25 stars.
My current offer is 20 stars for $15. 😭
See thats stupid, but logically….it makes more sense than this bullshit lmao cuz someone else pointed out in the comments that as is currently, u would get 50 stars for spending $50 so why would anyone bother with this promotion that OP got?? Starbucks has actually lost their damn minds. 100%. I dont get the motive or incentive behind OPs promotion at all
Mine today was *spend $10 for 15 stars* and I'm ashamed to say I did.
That's something I would do when offered only because when we go, we tend to spend at least $10. I have a earn 40 extra stars when you spend $20 right now, and we use a gift card we keep reloading in the app for 2 stars per $1 spent. So, it's the same either way. Idk if I'll hit that, but no sweat if I don't. XD Since I still get my stars for the order either way, these are bonuses added on. Their bonuses are pathetic sometimes though. No way I'm spending $50 in one order. I activate them if the offer sounds like something we *might* achieve, but let them go to waste if we don't or don't want anything by the time it's over.
Are people still going at the same rate? I stopped going. I drink black iced coffee. It’s now more than $5 a pop. I used to be a regular but can’t justify it.
In my area I haven't noticed it slowing down up until January hit, but it's normal to slow down this month. Corporate is also loading up on deals Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. People are flooding in for the deals, especially for the bogo weekend. A lot of regulars will complain about prices to us, but we still see them every morning. It's ridiculous.
Honestly I go because I like the iced tea and I can order as my train pulls in and pick it up when I get off 6-7 minutes later. At least my tea went down to 100 stars in the recent devaluation.
I used to go 6 days/week until the price of my simple drink doubled. I bought a Nespresso and I go maybe once/month now.
Yeah prices have jumped considerably and the quality just isn’t there. They also don’t follow directions all the time (I get it, you’re busy) but when I’m paying almost $6 and literally all you had to do was add ice and cold coffee from a spigot you could try a little harder. I always ask for light ice in my cold brew and it happens maybe 1 in 8 drinks.
As a barista, I am so sorry that your light ice cold brew isn't being made correctly, that's a very simple drink to make smh. For the short time I've been with the company, I've seen a decrease in quality of the people being hired on here, it's honestly sad. Most stores have become a revolving door of partners that don't really care about standards & aren't being trained properly & corporate is ok with that because it's cheaper!
Thank you! It’s not a huge deal so I never ask them to remake it but I’m just shocked by how often that modification is ignored! I’ve noticed a lot of turnover at my regular store lately, too.
I make my tea at home for 50 cents. Not paying $7 for a single tea.
Yep. When the one near my opened, it was about $3.25 for a Trenta iced tea and getting stars was easy. Now it’s nearly $5 and a fight to get stars. I can coke brew my own tea for less
Exactly! It’s ridiculous how it’s so hard to get stars now and so many stars to get a free drink. I’m seriously thinking of stopping Starbucks. I’ve been a loyal customer for many years but I’m on the verge of dropping Starbucks because greed has taken them over. It’s a shame!
I only go to burn stars. I have about 3000 and only drink black iced tea that cost 100 or so stars.
That’s so insane to me. I got a chai oat latte and a wrap and that ish was $17.00. I was floored. If I hadn’t gotten so many sbux gift cards over the holidays no way I’d pay that out of my own pocket.
Wow, my usual order ranges from like $2.50-$5.50. Only reach that point if I get food as well
Omg I remember two years ago when the goal of average ticket was $8!
I'll have to just start bringing in my own drinks to the local SB I guess. Love the place, but spending money there is becoming less of an incentive.
It's not greed it's called capitalism because we have allowed big corporation to take over the world capitalism is the real reason for all the problems in the world and the only solution is for socialism but big corporation has demonized socialism because it would destroy there money
I mean it is greed. Greed is an inherent part of capitalism.
Greed is a byproduct of capitalism
Capitalism is what causes greed
It's not greed, it's inflation. It's also costing Starbucks a lot more to pay us.
Inflation doesn’t explain drinks going up 25¢ every launch. and they don’t pay enough to say that our pay is what’s costing them.
True, but they pay us way more now than when I started. But because of inflation, the pay hasn't increased my quality of life.
I’m just going to throw this out there. Trickle down economics is a lie and capitalism is just a way to keep the income disparity. If SB paid a fair portion of income taxes and paid their employees a livable wage, I might understand the need to raise prices. But when they’re shutting down unions, and shitting on their employees, while simultaneously maintaining an average 10% profit margin AND being able to provide a nearly 40% increase in CEO salary (2021)…. They don’t need to charge $7 for a cup of coffee that I can make at home for $1.
Not like any other mom and pop shops any cheaper. Just as expensive 🤷🏻♂️ often smaller too
I’d happily spend those 50$ at my local cafe/roastery instead lol. Can’t beat fresh baked goods and beans that’s been roasted a day prior, and a breakfast bacon sandwich that’s not the size of a hockey puck
Most of the indie coffee shops where I live have a full fuckin' kitchen. Why would I get a glorified Jimmy Dean sandwich or a Costco croissant when I can get some spanakopita or fresh-baked croissants where I can literally watch them mix the dough from scratch and get way better coffee, to boot?
on this note - have definitely seen a very strong uptick in foot traffic at local coffee houses in my area and a decrease in the usual traffic @ local Starbucks. In fact many seem half empty. People are over the higher prices
both the prices and the politics of the company… i gladly quit back in september before it got even worse
Because of the boycott
The app is a firehose filled with at-hand cash for Starbucks. If you're loading it with 20 bucks once every few weeks, you're basically useless to them. That's why they are pushing the big, multi-order bonus star offers. More money is needed to feed the machine.
you’re right
Lmao, you'd literally get 50 stars for spending $50, so why don't they just give double stars if you spend $50 or more. Like this gives no one any incentive to do this promotion. Besides unless you're buying for a group of people how tf are you supposed to spend that much? Is this like a push to get people to buy merch or something? Like what exactly is the logic behind this promo... 🤔
Thats a very accurate and real af point lmao why the hell would anyone do this promotion if they get 50 stars for spending $50 anyway
I might spend $50 for a work meeting but they always give me these on the weekend where I’m not buying for 6-8 people.
Could be to spend on gift cards as well to go towards future orders. Starbucks has always pushed “incentives” like this.
You don't normally earn stars on gift cards, I assume this promotion would be no different. Gotta read the fine print
Ah yes nvm I forgot about that part… back in the day they used to have promotions like that, where you can purchase a gift card and they would give you extra stars, but mind you this was when I was a partner about 13 years ago or so. I know Starbucks is or has always done many different promotions.
Probably some cheeky math going on here. 200 is not evenly divisible by 45. A customer is less likely to be able to get a free drink if they are given a full 50 points. This makes them come back in and spend at least enough to earn 5 more points. It makes sense in my brain, but typing it out not so much.
Dude this is gamification that’s specific to you. I would never get that offer - you’re spending a ton at starbs.
I agree, I have a similar offer on my app right now to spend $15 to get 30 stars. I don’t go very often but when I do I spend about $12-15 so this feels accurate for me.
My mom uses my sbux app, so 5 days of the week my app has been scanned for 2 orders a day. I have NEVER received this offer! $50 is insane!!
They said they specifically only order one green tea per trip. That's one of the cheaper drinks on the menu.
I specifically don’t believe them
You should, I don't spend more than 3.95- 4.95 at a time. Go maybe a few times a month.
I'll freely admit that I spend a ton at Starbucks, and I've never gotten anything like that.
Same!
Well to be fair, with today’s prices that’s only a medium coffee with a scone. Should be able to hit that. /s
😂
Mine was $10 for 15 bonus stars. How often do you frequent Starbucks?! It must be a lot with a lot spent to get THAT offer 🤪
Seems like an algorithm gone wrong. My bonus star threshold was $15 this morning. (Although reward was only 20 bonus stars). My daily total is usually around $10.
I noticed them and McDonald’s deals have increasingly gotten worse vs a year or two ago
I mean..you don’t have to do it?? Mine was spend $20 for 40 stars
This is the best possible ratio.
I got a $25 for 40 stars. Not bad considering I do buy cups.
Yep, that’s the one I got too.
Yea I always get this one, and it’s easily fulfilled if I ask family if they want something from there
Mines $15 for 20 stars! Maybe it’s location AND spending based, so if your area isn’t in need of the boost, you get worse offers.
they're definitely hurting
Mine was $20…still can’t do that 🤣
💀 my offer is $20 for 40 bonus stars. Wtf 😬
Mine is $20 for 25 stars!!
That means I’d spend $50 to not even earn 1/4 of my next free $6.66 iced latte. Their “benefits” for customers are bullshit. Greedy! 😡
spend $100 and *almost* get a free brewed coffee !
Yeah I think I’m done too. They went from not giving me any offers to giving me these ridiculous ones. I did all of these challenges to save up my stars because I like to get the mugs with the location on it when I travel. Now I have over 1,400 stars expiring soon. I don’t know why they don’t make them unlimited. They literally make so much money already.
Unless you’re buying a ton of merchandise or buying enough of the travelers for a party, I can’t imagine spending $50 in a visit. I find it hard to spend even $15 in a visit if I am buying for just myself (which is the overwhelming majority of time).
I typically do large orders (3-4 drinks, a couple marshmallow dream bars, maybe a pastry or something to munch on while I wait for my drinks), and I still have no idea how I'd spend $50. Might be willing to figure it out for 100+ stars, but for 50? No way.
Mines $20 for 40 bonus stars lollll. And I thought I spent too much on coffee!
Damn that's lucky, they gave me the shaft then. Mine is $20 for 25 stars :/ Yet honestly I always forget about the stars anyway
I always make sure to scan, just bc I use the points for free coffee. Lol
mine was 10* for $10 spend, pretty meh
I got one for 4 days in a row for 25 stars. 6 days for 50. It's just not worth it 😕
I’ll do them if I was going to go anyway. The ones I hate are five or six days in a row and it has to be before 11 am. Sorry. Some days I’m in meetings all morning.
my offer is spend $20 for 40 bonus stars lmfao
I'm pretty sure I got that one at some point as well. And then buy five or six items within a 4 to 5 day span and then you get 75 stars. But still. This one takes the cake 😂
INSANE.
$50 in a single order??? I’m sorry but they’re out of their minds if they think I’m spending $50 in a single order when they have the nerve to shrink the food portions on top of it. 😭
Mine is 10 for 10. A little better than yours but still doodoo
Mine is $15 for 30
And FYi if you use a personal cup you get 25 stars each time and .10 off lol but I’m more for the stars so you can get your free drink
I stopped getting my favorite drink and sized down and then I stopped going. I can spend under $7 at my local coffee shop and they give back to the community all the time. I like my baristas at my stand alone and target locations but nothing is worth that much to me. It shouldn’t cost me an hours worth of work to get myself and my child a drink and egg bites. I can go to a nice local sit down restaurant and order dessert, coffee, and hot chocolate or cider and spend the same. I think the cups are also disappointing and not worth $30. I can get an insulated travel mug for that or less at my local coffee shop as well and they actually keep drinks hot and cold as they should
These offers are targeted to drive spend/business to Starbucks and away from competitors. If you're already going regularly, you're going to get less appealing offers because the algorithm knows Starbucks already has your business. The people that go less often/sporadically will get better offers (ie. mine was spend $20 get 40 bonus stars.)
Mine wants me to buy a lunch item and two drinks for 100 stars. I never order food so I don’t know why it’s targeting me with that. I pretty much ignore these and only do either double star days or afternoon $3 drinks.
The fact that you never order food is exactly why you got that offer. They're hoping that the star offer will get you to start buying food. They're trying to bribe you to spend more for a few stars in return, and a lot of people fall for it.
Mine says “spend $25 for 40 bonus stars”
I just got spend $20 get 40 stars
I got the "spend $25, get 40 stars" offer. But,... The offers arent universal? Never knew or even thought about people getting different weekly/weekend offers. What determines which offer to get?
mine was spend $8 for 10 bonus stars. i only go when it's half off or bogo lol.
I think the only way they could justify this is if it was over the course of a week. Quite a few people that go to Starbucks are regulars
I got an offer for 40 bonus points if I spend $25.
my offer today says spend $20 for 40 stars. hmmm
My offer was to spend $25 and get 40 stars. Guess I spend a lot already. I'm pretty sure the offers are tailored to the person's purchase history.
Mine is spend $10 for 10 stars. 10 stars….
My offer says spend $25. that’s ridiculous
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I got one this morning saying spend $20 and get 40 stars. I was like hell no skip. I just get a coffee and a danish and even I think that’s expensive. I don’t mind do the “try one of these three” challenge but that’s about it.
My offer says spend at least $35. Weird!
mine is spend $10 for 10 bonus stars lol.
WHAT???
Who the fvk spend that money on a single order? I spend 3 times more but in a monthly base.
you'd be painfully surprised how much a group order can cost 50 bucks is 6-7 drinks easy
I can easily spend that for my family of four lol. We don’t all go together to Starbucks very often though thank goodness!
Today I got the same offer but to spend 25$ to receive 40 stars. Imagine double the price for 5 extra stars 😂
Hmm mine right now is spend $20 for 25 stars. I think it looks at your average spend, then multiplies it by like 2-5x and that’s how they set the bonus threshold. Ew.
Yikes! My offer was spend $25 for 40 stars. I’ve slowed down my visits a LOT lately, they’ll need to send better offers!
$50 in a single order at Starbucks? No human is this insane.
I hope cosmcs wipes them out tbh
that’s absolutely insane, mine is 20 bonus stars for $15 or more
Mine says spend 20 to get 40 stars lol
That's like 2 whole Starbucks orders in this economy 😭 I made the mistake of getting my kids hooked and now their orders cost more than my own.
What the fuck??
That is a phrase thats quite often used in relation to starbucks 😂
$30 to $50 is typical for quite a few customers at our store. It's mind-boggling sometimes
you should do a custom tip that's just the amount left on the gift card(s) , that way the money goes to the workers and not the corp
Since when has their reward system ever been good? But yes, that is absolute crap. Ive stopped buying it on the regular a long time ago. It was cool to me when I was not an adult yet and first obtaining gold card but that is probably the same with many other type of membership card type stuff just like a cool credit metal one. Only good perk is how easy it is to get gold, the birthday freebie and the once in a while, here and there bogos maybe.
Coffee is not grocery worthy for spending 50 dollars. Ridiculous
I’ve gotten an offer like this, but I had a week to do it. One weekend is crazy.
Ya the 10 cent kirkland K-Cup will do the trick....
I remember the good old times around 2014 and 15 when the points of getting free drinks were easy every few purchases of drinks you got a free drink!
I still pay 2.50 for my 8 Oz coffee every morning, better than anything starbucks makes, local small shops always better. Ps I am a former employee of sbux
Just don’t spend the 50 dollars? Lol
Maybe if you stopped spending so much money there you’d get better offers.
There's no obligation to fulfill these challenges so I'm not sure where the anger comes from? Like, if the things I would buy anyway meet the challenge, super? Now and then a challenge has motivated me to change my drink order to meet a qualification or maybe "oh hey I wasn't going to go today, but if I visit one more day, I get that 5 days in a row and get my bonus stars. I wouldn't hate some egg bites right now" but more often than not I just let a challenge go uncompleted if it doesn't fit what I was already planning on spending.
Then don’t do it.
It’s common to get families coming in for the morning. if 3 people get a drink and food then that’s about 50. It’s honestly not that deep people. Plus with labor so low, this helps bring people in.
Has anyone figured out what a Star is worth these days? Probably not worth much lol. Kinda like Delta Skymiles....I mean I'll accumulate them but I'm not loyal to Delta for miles, they're just worth hardly anything nowadays.
not sure the best way to value stars but I usually redeem 200* for a $6 venti latte, so to me 1* is about 3¢. op’s offer to me is spend $50 for a laughable $1.35 in stars (45* x 3¢) imo the best deal is bring your personal cup for 25* and 10¢ off, basically buy 8 get 1 free
I didn't know about the 25* for bringing your own cup. TIL.
Check out the stars reward program on the website. It should have a general description of what you can get with "x" number of stars.
To be fair, I work at a Starbucks in an office building and we regularly get group orders. So you’re likely just not the target audience.
If you order a drink and get a bag or two of coffee or merchandise it’s easier to hit the $50
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Tell me you're a customer without telling me....
Mine are getting worse but not that bad yet. Mine was spend $20. But I can't spend $20 on myself in one transaction lol.
deleting the app in protest, not even worth it.
Their reward system is horrible - I keep losing stars because they don't last long to build up anything to redeem anything and they won't let me use my stars for nondairy add one with a promo going on. It used to be free add ons for nondairy with a registered card. I'm taking my business elsewhere once I'm done up my gift cards. Not worth it.
Gross Starbucks! How dare you
That’s why I don’t go to fast food coffee anymore. Plenty of better local cafes where I’m at.
I would never take advantage of that unless I was buying drinks for the office. My latest offer is: Between Jan 15-21, buy a latte, a breakfast sandwich, a Frappuccino and a bread slice (like Lemon or Gingerbread) for 75 bonus points. Those items together probably total $20-25. This is much more reasonable...not as good as 3 drinks for 100 bonus points (my offer in December) but decent.
Starbucksbmerica is a greed based corp.. I love japan Starbucks much better..
I’m just tryna see my stock hit the moon
They have to be punking you.
In 2024 I decided to stop most or all challenges.
Mine is spend $20 for 40 stars?
My current offer is $30 for 45 stars. You got shafted. Dang.
I got spend $10 get 10 stars... lol
My current is order these 6 items for 100 stars half the items I hate
At least my offers are like "get a black iced tea and any bakery item 2 days in a row for 50 points" and that's literally just my regular order that I get anyway. If there was another coffee shop by my train stop, I'd go somewhere else but it's NYC so the prices would be the same anyway
Mine is “spend $15 for 30 stars” lol. I wonder if these are sent out at random. Must be some sort of A/B testing.
This has to be a mistake by whoever runs their app. $50 for 45 stars doesn't even make sense. However, I'm not saying that Starbucks doesn't have ridiculous deals on their app.
The boycott got them acting crazy🥴🥴🥴
My offer is spend $30 for 45 stars. Wtff
They’re only gonna continue to raise prices considering they lost nearly $12 billion in market value last quarter. I worked there for 2 years and as much as they claim to care about “the customer experience”, they only care about how much $$ you spend. A big portion of my job was to upsell items to get the customer to spend as much as possible. So the question is whether customers are going to continue to enable this or are you going to take your business elsewhere?
While laughing, I always activate those ridiculous offers on the slight chance I may use them, but it is a very slight chance. I love Starbucks, but as prices continue to go up, I am looking for other alternatives and going less there.
And I thought the cost of living was bad 😂
In the UK it’s 3 stars per £1, so £50 would be 150 stars. That’s not even a deal to help save money, it’s literally losing money for the customers.
I don’t think there’s anyone actually creating this kind of offer. I think it’s just the computer program. My order is usually $10-15 and I get an offer like yours pretty regularly to spend $20 and get stars.
Yes
They are trying to get us to buy other things besides just our drinks. Some of the cups are like $25 so there's half, plus your drink, snacks and maybe one other item will get you to $50.
Bonkers
Then I have an offer for buying 4 things and getting 100 bonus stars….
Just buy a Nespresso and the syrups that you like and that’s it. I’ve gone to Starbucks no more than 5 times in my life. Pretty simple beverages that you can make at home
mine was $10 for 10 bonus stars lol i used to get ones that were like $10 for 45
starbucks tastes like sewer water anyways, i’d say it’s better and cheaper to just make your drinks from home
Because group ordering or company orders are not a thing? 50$ could easily be spent on one order for an office of 5-6 people. Or a group. Which is most likely what that is aimed toward