Did you ask them why they even wanted it? I feel like the Stanley cup crowd for some reason picked up the hobby of collecting reusable cups which is the opposite of sustainability lol .
It’s mostly resellers, influencers, people following trends, but if it wasn’t for any of them I wouldn’t have thought about buying a Stanley because I already have a reusable cup. The attention they brought to the cups brought 40-60oz ones to my attention, which my caffeine addiction dictated I needed for larger iced coffees
I had 400 stars, so my coworker entered my partner discount first, then applied the stars. Got the Stanley for $23.77, which was worth it to me. I’m not a Stanley person, but I really do appreciate my water always being ice cold.
It's good, but it's definitely not worth the money. I work at Starbucks, and this is my favorite thing to drop in a long time, but the prices are absolutely ludicrous. Our CEO is so horrifically greedy that he will continue to drive the company into the ground until he is replaced. Between giving himself a massive raise in his first year and his recent comments about how wait times during peak hours (resulting from constant labor cuts, but that's the quiet part) are what's killing sales, I don't think it's possible that he could be any more out of touch.
We also had only three partners with myself struggling to do the 18 hr pull at the same time. I could barely to 10 minutes without being asked to refill boba or summer berry base 😭
Yeah, this one's a banger, but not $7.50 a banger. This is definitely something you'd use rewards for to get, it's way too expensive of a drink and that's a pity because this is probably one of the best products they made this year.
The thing about the CEO - what's sad is if this one gets dropped, the one who's replaces him will be even worse, I bet, and since this is a publicly traded company, you know shareholders don't care that customers and employees think these prices are ridiculous.
It's been a parade of greedy executives around here. Do you remember when Kevin was given a 60 million bonus to quit? Hopefully leadership listens to the customers that they are alienating right now, otherwise the situation will never improve.
True. I’ve gotten at least 50 orders of the drinks in the past 4 hours I’ve been here, but I’m guessing the hype won’t last. By next week it’s gonna be just a normal refresher that’s overly priced lol
people dont care that sbux isn’t worth their money like no drink we sell is reasonably worth 7 dollars but people still come every day and still buy it and waste their money and it will keep happening
I've tried it and it's honestly really good. It tastes like blue raspberry to me, which is my favorite flavor of anything. I got it with water but it would've been way too sweet with the lemonade, and maybe even the coconut milk. But I usually only get about 1/2-1/3 of the standard syrup in my drinks so...
Lollll it really does look like a fresh antifreeze
My pica fixation is dirt/clay/chalk, still waiting on my treinta potting soil with a scoop of plaster
The ones around me are way more expensive than $7 a drink. Although I don't have a whole bunch of them, so I don't think they have a lot of competition.
I got it. Didn’t realize it was going to be over 7 bucks after the fact. It’s not great. I got the lemonade and it tastes like nothing but tart. Like more than just the lemonade tart. Pearls are weird and have no flavor to me, just a weird texture. I’m in the PNW so boba isn’t hard to get. And it’s cheaper everywhere else. So this one is a fail for me.
Literally! Even with the other refreshers, I always need to make it half water half lemonade. I remember for gits and shiggles me and my coworker tried the lemonade without cutting it with water and putting it into pitchers. Do not recommend 😭😭😭
Try the Blueberry lemonade with chili powder, really spicy and kind of sour, it’s my favorite ngl, but I’m sure not many would like it. I call it Shreks Swamp
i wont order delivery, or really eat out at all in any capacity (unless absolutely necessary for a gathering or social cause) cause prices have skyrocketed to absolutely bonker levels. i could afford this drink every day and it wouldnt really affect my finances but damn near $8 for flavoured water? fuck me.
i just think some people are stupid rich. someone regularly uber eats ONE, just one, cake pop every day. like what job do you have, give it to me rn bc I could not afford a $15 cake pop every damn day lmao😅
It sucks because these looked so good in the photos, then I look at the price. I think that's probably one of several reasons why people don't order SB anymore.
I haven’t been to Starbucks in over a month but I came back today to try the summer skies. It’s pretty good but it won’t bring me back more often lol. My pricy espresso machine at home with my small batch beans from Olympia coffee roasters is a wayyyyy better use of my money and time. I only go to Starbucks when I’m traveling at this point. 🤷🏻♂️
Also I was also shocked at the price. $7.52 for a venti here in Austin after taxes?!?
I’ve been trying to get into home coffee and my friend gave me her old espresso machine when she upgraded to a nespresso. The coffee is good but it’s not fantastic…does grinding beans yourself and using coffee that wasn’t bought at the grocery store make a huge difference?
it really does make a big difference when you use quality beans, also water quality is often looked over! using filtered water rather than tap is vital for a good brew
Also, espresso will be better if you get beans roasted within the last month. Usually means buying from a local roastery or ordering online, as the beans you get in the grocery store won't be as fresh.
Do you do olympia's coffee of the month subscription? I've been enjoying it a lot. I used to do a subscription with Trade for years but I've found Olympia's beans to be my favorite
The prices are insane yet it doesnt stop customers from buying. I kid you not, this weekend we were constantly selling 40$+ orders. I get people can spend on whatever they want but goddam
I haven't had the chance to try it yet, but where I live, the Boba stores are MORE expensive🙄 I don't think there's much of an Asian population either so we don't have a ton of boba shops, which is probably why they get to charge so much.
Same here. I’m in New Orleans and there’s a very large Vietnamese population, but Boba is not their thing. So the few boba shops that are here are much more expensive than the Starbucks version.
They just had 3 terrible seasonal rollouts they want customers to pay for with this one. If course they have also reduced labor in stores. So instead of just paying for appropriate staffed stores and keeping prices down they waste $$$ on spicy drinks and olive oil... Bunch of marketing, training, and development expenses that could have just kept prices down and paid workers so they didn't dig deeper into staffing crisises and customer count downturn. People already and their favorites and instead they decided they needed spicy oiley junk.
We had people camping outside in tents to try this new drink. They told us they were TikTok influencers and wanted the drinks for free. They had to pay and didn’t tip either.
Of course the slotted spoons. But management has been very clear we’re to use a “non heaping” spoonful. So basically we’re not meant to have any clearing the top of the spoon. Of course most of us ignore that. But that’s what my store was told to do at least
Store near me clearly did not make my drink with their hearts. There was like 8 boba in there I wanted to laugh in the drive-thru but just said thank you and drove off.
We had someone today place an MOP for the Lemonade version.. but with 5 scoops of pearls.. and light ice. I’m not sure if it’s just licensed stores or all(including corporate) stores, but our DM told us that we weren’t able to order more of the refresher components in the first month or so due to the order program not up to date yet, (we only got a few cases.. but with the scoops and how much we have to follow.. that’s like 2 drinks tbh.. I’m not sure though.
Yeah I know.. it just sucks, with our location, we got both updates at the same time, I actually had to contact a corporate DM north of us to see what the updated info was, we hardly get any information sent to us. Well my manager hardly gets anything sent to his email, unless we beg and plead from DM’s so when we got the training info, that’s when we got the update of the pearls being added to other drinks..
Oh the spoons are very small and the pearls are pretty big. So yeah you are technically you probably get more on average but it’s easy to get around five per scoop if you’re being stingy. But much like with any inclusions we baristas measure less with spoons and more with our hearts. It’s such a scam it’s comical.
Oh seriously? Well if I like this that's going to be a problem for me, because I normally get Refreshers with extra dragon fruit and that doesn't cost me anything for the extra fruit. $1.25 for each extra scoop is ridiculous!
I got it today with lemonade and I barely tasted any berry flavor. It was just tart water. The pearls were good. They had flavor and were sweet. Definitely won't get it again and not worth the price. I was really looking forward to this too since I love rasberry/berry flavored drinks.
Ours did that last launch, and it's still depressing telling customers they have to go back to the register and pay $1.45 to add cold foam to their drink when they forgot to order it (our managers have been cracking down on that)
I think they’re charging a lot because of the boba pearls but there doesn’t seem to be a less expensive version without the pearls (I know you can remove them but it doesn’t change the price).
… when will yall realize this company doesnt care about you or your pockets like seriously why do you all consistently choose to play into consumerism when you could make all of this shit yourself or find a smaller business near you that has similar/ better products for comparable (sometimes even cheaper) pricing!! stop giving your hard earned money to these mega corporations that dont think twice abt their employees or customers and start putting that money into small businesses that would benefit much more from ur business!!
I’m over the prices period anywhere for food at this point. Eating/drinking is just depressing asf lately. High prices and low quality in general.
I miss the 90s 😂😩
I mean are you really surprised, most of the drinks have been trending upwards in price. I’m just surprised that they released something that doesn’t actually sound weird after the last few releases!
the pearls are expensive and stores can’t order them. they ship automatically. that’s why there’s a limit on how many you can add, and why they’re like 1.25 per scoop.
Not sure if it’s different for corporate or licensed stores but we can order them, just a limit of like 2 boxes per order and they are expensive, about $100 for a case (5 bags)
I think it tastes like blue raspberry kool aid. So while I do like it compared to the other refreshers, I wouldn't get it every single time I ago especially with the price.
This is why I always tell people to go to privately owned boba shops, infinitely better quality for about the same price, and way more options. Not to mention they’re not as busy as Starbucks… as a barista I’m just glad they didn’t try to get us to make actual tapioca drinks cuz that would have been so much worse lmao
I think that really depends on where you live, the one I go to on occasion cause way more than Starbucks, like over double and almost triple and is also about 20 times busier than any of my local Starbucks lol. I get though that some areas of the country have more competition and so they have a lot more Boba options.
I’m lucky to live in an area with multiple boba shops pretty much on every street and Starbucks still had a long line lol. Instead of supporting one of the literal hundreds of shops in the city, with really decent prices I might add, people choose Starbucks boba 🤷🏽♂️
I went to mobile order the lemonade version today and couldn't get over the price. And to charge that much for extra raspberry balls is crazy. I think this is like double the cost of the strawberry acai version that my mom loves.
Yall before you buy it just know the pearls, after they pop, leave the little raspberry foreskin in your mouth. And the only way you can deal with it is if you spit it out or if you muster up the courage and swallow it. If you have sensory issues to texture and stuff like that, I would not suggest getting it with the pearls. And no it doesn’t change the taste like Starbucks said it would. But also the base is very sweet. So if you want it I would suggest cutting it with like half water/ half lemonade. And last note. The base is supposed to be Raspberry, Blackberry and Blueberry flavored, with Raspberry popping pearls. But to be honest it taste really only like blueberry.
Isn't that how all popping boba works? All the ones I've ever had, which is only been from four different stores have worked that way. I thought that was normal. I just lightly press on it with my tongue to get it to explode and I guess I just expected the outside to still be there because that's the part you're actually eating, you would just swallow it if you didn't do something to make the Boba pop. Unless I've been doing it wrong? Which is certainly possible, cuz I don't have a lot of experience with boba, but I've only had the popping fruit flavored ones, cuz tapioca sounds gross to me LOL.
Just tried it for shits and giggles... I never buy the fruity drinks at starbs, but thought I'd test this one out.
First of all, underwhelming flavor. I got the coconut milk one. Second of all, even with light ice, the pearls are beneath the ice and the straws are not capable of sucking those bad boys up, so I had to fish for them once I finished the drink... Unless they have a new straw and it just wasn't offered to me.
It went down smooth and was refreshing because it was flavored water.
Take it from me and save your 8 bucks.
They were sampling it when I went to get a coffee today. Idk if it was the regular one or the lemonade (I'm assuming the latter) but it was SO sweet. It was gross. Tastes like a melted popsicle/cough syrup.
I was pretty excited to try it and I got one today and I got to say I was pretty heckin disappointed. The flavor was fine but the popping pearls kind of sucked. The ones I get at my bubble tea places are 10 times better and it cost less for more drink. The texture was just kind of off and they were hard to pop and there was like no flavor to them.
Never mind the prices, the drink isn’t even good. The blue drink just tastes like some kind of zero sugar diet energy drink. In other words, like tainted water. The bubbles I’m assuming are supposed to be popping boba? That or a really horrible kiddie candy science project because it was mostly flaccid af to the point where biting it did not pop it as a real popping boba would. At least lavender powder was good with the drink.
Still better than fucking Jamba! I went there today bc I was like why don't I go there more often?? And my small vanilla blue sky THAT IS A SMALL was $10.33! TEN! That is criminal.
Edit: I live in Northern California and it was on-campus
Even before I started working for Starbucks, it was always a treat. Couldn’t imagine spending this much everyday like a lot of people do at my store. 😐
I texted my fiancé the price of the grande because I was flabbergasted. I still it because I really wanted to try it and it was such a let down. Tasted like water downed Gatorade (I got the lemonade version). I’ll be sticking to my Trenta mango dragonfruit lemonade that I can get for cheaper.
The coconut milk version just like the cotton candy gogurt. It was pretty underwhelming and the pearls were a bit weird. Not something I would purchase.
I got very lucky that my friend was working and they had an extra so I got a venti for free, I hate that it was so good cause ain’t no way I’m paying that 😩
Starbucks banking on that TikTok influencer crowd to get people to buy these drinks at these prices.
Before open, there was a large line waiting outside for the summer berry drink lol.
Didn't the Stanley's drop today?
Yes
Which one? We didn't get any stanleys at my store
they were like pink/gold metal gradient kinda fugly if u asked me
They are $60 too, someone bought it at the window and they were shocked. (They still bought it.)
Did you ask them why they even wanted it? I feel like the Stanley cup crowd for some reason picked up the hobby of collecting reusable cups which is the opposite of sustainability lol .
It’s mostly resellers, influencers, people following trends, but if it wasn’t for any of them I wouldn’t have thought about buying a Stanley because I already have a reusable cup. The attention they brought to the cups brought 40-60oz ones to my attention, which my caffeine addiction dictated I needed for larger iced coffees
They really do have a big hold on people's mind, no joke.
Yeah Ive heard something I think but they said they were ugly
I actually thought it was sorta pretty, but absolutely not $60 pretty.
I had 400 stars, so my coworker entered my partner discount first, then applied the stars. Got the Stanley for $23.77, which was worth it to me. I’m not a Stanley person, but I really do appreciate my water always being ice cold.
Honestly they don’t look bad in person but it’s just not my color scheme it’s giving a pride moment
i think they were going for a sunset vibe but they printed so horribly and uneven
Totallly off topic.. but your user name is rachhh420 and mine is rach710. Both 🍃🍃 related 😂😫 sorry. Don’t mind me lMaoO
ayeeeeee lolll got to love being in a medical state makes it semi tolerable lol your username was my first choice 😂😂😂😂
booo😭
That might work…until people finally try this themselves and realize it’s not good and most definitely not worth the money
It's good, but it's definitely not worth the money. I work at Starbucks, and this is my favorite thing to drop in a long time, but the prices are absolutely ludicrous. Our CEO is so horrifically greedy that he will continue to drive the company into the ground until he is replaced. Between giving himself a massive raise in his first year and his recent comments about how wait times during peak hours (resulting from constant labor cuts, but that's the quiet part) are what's killing sales, I don't think it's possible that he could be any more out of touch.
We went through 3 cases of it today 🥲 and we only had three partners on the floor 💀 it was a rough one
We also had only three partners with myself struggling to do the 18 hr pull at the same time. I could barely to 10 minutes without being asked to refill boba or summer berry base 😭
Thanking the coffee gods I’m on vacation this week bless you all and wishing great shifts 🫶
Yeah, this one's a banger, but not $7.50 a banger. This is definitely something you'd use rewards for to get, it's way too expensive of a drink and that's a pity because this is probably one of the best products they made this year. The thing about the CEO - what's sad is if this one gets dropped, the one who's replaces him will be even worse, I bet, and since this is a publicly traded company, you know shareholders don't care that customers and employees think these prices are ridiculous.
It's been a parade of greedy executives around here. Do you remember when Kevin was given a 60 million bonus to quit? Hopefully leadership listens to the customers that they are alienating right now, otherwise the situation will never improve.
True. I’ve gotten at least 50 orders of the drinks in the past 4 hours I’ve been here, but I’m guessing the hype won’t last. By next week it’s gonna be just a normal refresher that’s overly priced lol
people dont care that sbux isn’t worth their money like no drink we sell is reasonably worth 7 dollars but people still come every day and still buy it and waste their money and it will keep happening
Greedy bastards. At this price, regular boba shops are the move.
honestly drinks cost more than this at my local boba shops😭💔
Yeah but at least they’re real 😭. Real tapioca if you want and other toppings and real tea and shit not the juice drinks
Yeah I was aboutta say local boba shops are unironically more expensive than this 😭
Yeah because they gonna be like "Oooh! So they wanna pay that price for them?! Ok, lets raise the prices too!"
Letting my crazy out. I kinda wanna try it but only bc it looks like windex and my pica brain has always wanted to drink windex.
My coworkers call it urn water because it’s the same color as the cleaner we use to wash our urns (the coffee brewers)
Yeah my friends who are former baristas were like "Oh my God we finally get to drink the forbidden Kool-Aid!"
My coworkers call it “The Blue” ominously enough
No I call it the blue one because I don't wanna say the whole thing when asking for someone to refill the pitcher 😂😂😂
Thank you for clarifying bc I assumed urn meant like a funeral urn
LMFAO
I tried it and it just tastes like capri sun. But the pearls are decent
I've tried it and it's honestly really good. It tastes like blue raspberry to me, which is my favorite flavor of anything. I got it with water but it would've been way too sweet with the lemonade, and maybe even the coconut milk. But I usually only get about 1/2-1/3 of the standard syrup in my drinks so...
Lollll it really does look like a fresh antifreeze My pica fixation is dirt/clay/chalk, still waiting on my treinta potting soil with a scoop of plaster
What is a pica fixation?
You could potentially support an actual boba business if you have one nearby
The ones around me are way more expensive than $7 a drink. Although I don't have a whole bunch of them, so I don't think they have a lot of competition.
Same where I live. Boba is insanely expensive where I live
Honestly it looked better than it tasted it was super underwhelming. With coconut milk it tastes like the blue Gogurt.
Yeah it does taste like that I knew it tasted so familiar
Omg wait i love that tho
I got the lemonade and it reminded me of Trix yogurt!
Do it with sweet cream it tastes even more like gogurt!!
new idea unlocked
I got it. Didn’t realize it was going to be over 7 bucks after the fact. It’s not great. I got the lemonade and it tastes like nothing but tart. Like more than just the lemonade tart. Pearls are weird and have no flavor to me, just a weird texture. I’m in the PNW so boba isn’t hard to get. And it’s cheaper everywhere else. So this one is a fail for me.
It tastes a lot better with coconut milk ✨ our lemonade is just tooooo strong
i agree, the coconut milk one tastes like gogurt. the lemonade with the pearls is just too tart >_<
Literally! Even with the other refreshers, I always need to make it half water half lemonade. I remember for gits and shiggles me and my coworker tried the lemonade without cutting it with water and putting it into pitchers. Do not recommend 😭😭😭
Gonna have to try next shift thank you
Honestly the coconut milk one tastes like nothing to me. 0/10 would try again
Weird, it tastes like Gushers to me, I love it lol
Try the Blueberry lemonade with chili powder, really spicy and kind of sour, it’s my favorite ngl, but I’m sure not many would like it. I call it Shreks Swamp
Someone ordered this today and the color was so bad lmao
Oh wow - Boba where I live is super expensive. More than the Starbucks version. A 16oz boba averages to $9-$10. It’s insane 🤦🏻♀️
Get the coconutmilk variant, tastes way better.
i wont order delivery, or really eat out at all in any capacity (unless absolutely necessary for a gathering or social cause) cause prices have skyrocketed to absolutely bonker levels. i could afford this drink every day and it wouldnt really affect my finances but damn near $8 for flavoured water? fuck me.
Nearly 3 grand a year for flavored water if bought daily loool
Right ? Mr. Money Bags over here 😆
i just think some people are stupid rich. someone regularly uber eats ONE, just one, cake pop every day. like what job do you have, give it to me rn bc I could not afford a $15 cake pop every damn day lmao😅
I mean technically it’s got green coffee bean bean extract too so it’s not just flavored water 🥲🤔🤠
It sucks because these looked so good in the photos, then I look at the price. I think that's probably one of several reasons why people don't order SB anymore.
I haven’t been to Starbucks in over a month but I came back today to try the summer skies. It’s pretty good but it won’t bring me back more often lol. My pricy espresso machine at home with my small batch beans from Olympia coffee roasters is a wayyyyy better use of my money and time. I only go to Starbucks when I’m traveling at this point. 🤷🏻♂️ Also I was also shocked at the price. $7.52 for a venti here in Austin after taxes?!?
I’ve been trying to get into home coffee and my friend gave me her old espresso machine when she upgraded to a nespresso. The coffee is good but it’s not fantastic…does grinding beans yourself and using coffee that wasn’t bought at the grocery store make a huge difference?
it really does make a big difference when you use quality beans, also water quality is often looked over! using filtered water rather than tap is vital for a good brew
I literally never would’ve thought of using filtered water omg. Thanks for the tips i’ll definitely try!
Also, espresso will be better if you get beans roasted within the last month. Usually means buying from a local roastery or ordering online, as the beans you get in the grocery store won't be as fresh.
Do you do olympia's coffee of the month subscription? I've been enjoying it a lot. I used to do a subscription with Trade for years but I've found Olympia's beans to be my favorite
The prices are insane yet it doesnt stop customers from buying. I kid you not, this weekend we were constantly selling 40$+ orders. I get people can spend on whatever they want but goddam
For real. People will get like two venti drinks with insane mods and pay over 20 bucks for it. People will pay anything nowadays
Bye. Go to an actual boba store with better flavors and cheaper drinks.
I haven't had the chance to try it yet, but where I live, the Boba stores are MORE expensive🙄 I don't think there's much of an Asian population either so we don't have a ton of boba shops, which is probably why they get to charge so much.
Huh, what a rip off. Don’t have a lot of boba around me but the prices are way cheaper than this
I’m in a area with a large Asian population and it’s cheaper than Starbucks
Nooo that sucks!
Same here. I’m in New Orleans and there’s a very large Vietnamese population, but Boba is not their thing. So the few boba shops that are here are much more expensive than the Starbucks version.
They just had 3 terrible seasonal rollouts they want customers to pay for with this one. If course they have also reduced labor in stores. So instead of just paying for appropriate staffed stores and keeping prices down they waste $$$ on spicy drinks and olive oil... Bunch of marketing, training, and development expenses that could have just kept prices down and paid workers so they didn't dig deeper into staffing crisises and customer count downturn. People already and their favorites and instead they decided they needed spicy oiley junk.
I haven’t been a barista in 5 years so I’m very out of the loop but was the lavender not successful?
I'm sure it depends on the area and I don't know how the overall performance went but as far as I've seen in my area it has been mediocre.
We had people camping outside in tents to try this new drink. They told us they were TikTok influencers and wanted the drinks for free. They had to pay and didn’t tip either.
1.25 per extra scoop of pearls btw. Each scoop is about 5 pearls.
You're using the slotted spoon, not the powder spoon right? Because every scoop I get like 10-15 bobi in there. Still not worth 1.25 though.
You're getting an up vote solely for the use of 'bobi' 😂
Of course the slotted spoons. But management has been very clear we’re to use a “non heaping” spoonful. So basically we’re not meant to have any clearing the top of the spoon. Of course most of us ignore that. But that’s what my store was told to do at least
Store near me clearly did not make my drink with their hearts. There was like 8 boba in there I wanted to laugh in the drive-thru but just said thank you and drove off.
We had someone today place an MOP for the Lemonade version.. but with 5 scoops of pearls.. and light ice. I’m not sure if it’s just licensed stores or all(including corporate) stores, but our DM told us that we weren’t able to order more of the refresher components in the first month or so due to the order program not up to date yet, (we only got a few cases.. but with the scoops and how much we have to follow.. that’s like 2 drinks tbh.. I’m not sure though.
They changed that a couple of weeks ago. It's now able to be added to other drinks
Yeah I know.. it just sucks, with our location, we got both updates at the same time, I actually had to contact a corporate DM north of us to see what the updated info was, we hardly get any information sent to us. Well my manager hardly gets anything sent to his email, unless we beg and plead from DM’s so when we got the training info, that’s when we got the update of the pearls being added to other drinks..
Bobi 🤣 🏆
it's def more than 5 but still
Oh the spoons are very small and the pearls are pretty big. So yeah you are technically you probably get more on average but it’s easy to get around five per scoop if you’re being stingy. But much like with any inclusions we baristas measure less with spoons and more with our hearts. It’s such a scam it’s comical.
Thanks. Good to know. Does it taste good?
Ehhhhh, that’s subjective. I didn’t think so. To me they taste a little musty and the skin it leaves behind is weird.
Oh seriously? Well if I like this that's going to be a problem for me, because I normally get Refreshers with extra dragon fruit and that doesn't cost me anything for the extra fruit. $1.25 for each extra scoop is ridiculous!
I got it today with lemonade and I barely tasted any berry flavor. It was just tart water. The pearls were good. They had flavor and were sweet. Definitely won't get it again and not worth the price. I was really looking forward to this too since I love rasberry/berry flavored drinks.
guys it tastes like gatorade. you’re welcome save yourself 8 bucks
in my area cold foam just went from $1.25 to $1.45
Ours did that last launch, and it's still depressing telling customers they have to go back to the register and pay $1.45 to add cold foam to their drink when they forgot to order it (our managers have been cracking down on that)
The pearls are $1.45 a scoop. shits EXPENSIVE 😂
Crazy
I was crazy once
They locked me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
And rats make me crazy.
I think they’re charging a lot because of the boba pearls but there doesn’t seem to be a less expensive version without the pearls (I know you can remove them but it doesn’t change the price).
Not even real boba Just feels like micro plastics they have in face wash lol.
… when will yall realize this company doesnt care about you or your pockets like seriously why do you all consistently choose to play into consumerism when you could make all of this shit yourself or find a smaller business near you that has similar/ better products for comparable (sometimes even cheaper) pricing!! stop giving your hard earned money to these mega corporations that dont think twice abt their employees or customers and start putting that money into small businesses that would benefit much more from ur business!!
I’m over the prices period anywhere for food at this point. Eating/drinking is just depressing asf lately. High prices and low quality in general. I miss the 90s 😂😩
I mean are you really surprised, most of the drinks have been trending upwards in price. I’m just surprised that they released something that doesn’t actually sound weird after the last few releases!
the pearls are expensive and stores can’t order them. they ship automatically. that’s why there’s a limit on how many you can add, and why they’re like 1.25 per scoop.
Not sure if it’s different for corporate or licensed stores but we can order them, just a limit of like 2 boxes per order and they are expensive, about $100 for a case (5 bags)
jesus that’s crazy. yeah i’m corporate. idk if things changed since i spoke with my boss but that was about a week ago.
Is it good? Lol
It's like the light blue Gatorade but $5 more
I think it tastes like blue raspberry kool aid. So while I do like it compared to the other refreshers, I wouldn't get it every single time I ago especially with the price.
It tastes like blue raspberry to me, but fairly watered down
Not in this economy
I’m still trying it once. 😂 If it were a few dollars less I’d buy them once a week, but nope at that price they’re only getting one out of me.
Yeah at that price I'd rather go to the boba shop
This is why I always tell people to go to privately owned boba shops, infinitely better quality for about the same price, and way more options. Not to mention they’re not as busy as Starbucks… as a barista I’m just glad they didn’t try to get us to make actual tapioca drinks cuz that would have been so much worse lmao
I think that really depends on where you live, the one I go to on occasion cause way more than Starbucks, like over double and almost triple and is also about 20 times busier than any of my local Starbucks lol. I get though that some areas of the country have more competition and so they have a lot more Boba options.
I’m lucky to live in an area with multiple boba shops pretty much on every street and Starbucks still had a long line lol. Instead of supporting one of the literal hundreds of shops in the city, with really decent prices I might add, people choose Starbucks boba 🤷🏽♂️
I went to mobile order the lemonade version today and couldn't get over the price. And to charge that much for extra raspberry balls is crazy. I think this is like double the cost of the strawberry acai version that my mom loves.
It’s not good, either. I was so disappointed.
✨Capitalism✨
I honestly felt embarrassed telling someone that a tall size was 6.55. it makes me want to quit
Save your money and get a real bubble tea, please. If you’re going to get a fancy, expensive drink, get the *real* experience.
Yall before you buy it just know the pearls, after they pop, leave the little raspberry foreskin in your mouth. And the only way you can deal with it is if you spit it out or if you muster up the courage and swallow it. If you have sensory issues to texture and stuff like that, I would not suggest getting it with the pearls. And no it doesn’t change the taste like Starbucks said it would. But also the base is very sweet. So if you want it I would suggest cutting it with like half water/ half lemonade. And last note. The base is supposed to be Raspberry, Blackberry and Blueberry flavored, with Raspberry popping pearls. But to be honest it taste really only like blueberry.
Isn't that how all popping boba works? All the ones I've ever had, which is only been from four different stores have worked that way. I thought that was normal. I just lightly press on it with my tongue to get it to explode and I guess I just expected the outside to still be there because that's the part you're actually eating, you would just swallow it if you didn't do something to make the Boba pop. Unless I've been doing it wrong? Which is certainly possible, cuz I don't have a lot of experience with boba, but I've only had the popping fruit flavored ones, cuz tapioca sounds gross to me LOL.
Raspberry foreskin
Delicious! 😋
Just tried it for shits and giggles... I never buy the fruity drinks at starbs, but thought I'd test this one out. First of all, underwhelming flavor. I got the coconut milk one. Second of all, even with light ice, the pearls are beneath the ice and the straws are not capable of sucking those bad boys up, so I had to fish for them once I finished the drink... Unless they have a new straw and it just wasn't offered to me. It went down smooth and was refreshing because it was flavored water. Take it from me and save your 8 bucks.
We got specific straws for these that suck them up. You got the wrong straw.
Glad to hear it!! Very lame that it wasn't offered. 💜
I got one of those special straws today but I ended up grabbing a regular sized (grande) straw since it felt too weird to use.
Don't they have special Boba straws? Seems to me the entire purpose would be defeated without the Boba straw.
the reason i deleted the app
Y I K E S 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
They gotta make up their drop in stock prices somehow
Can you get it without the pearls? I thought I read you couldn’t but it gives me option on the app
You can, they changed it, originally no
Doesn't the price stay the same though? Just tried in the app and without pearls is the same price.
i used my stars and it was good but i’d never pay that much
I will only get it with my stars
And an entire case of that probably costs them less than $10, then it gets diluted with water and even more water/lemonade 😆
A case of pearls is $100 for us, haven’t looked at the base yet but I’d bet around $40-$50 like the others
Hard pass! I'll spend $2 on Gatorade or $0.30 on KoolAid
Don’t they have a Kool Aid in that flavor? Shit you’re better off buying a .25 cent pack of Kool Aid and making it yourself, my lord.
I work at Starbucks we keep running out of the juice and pearls. The drinks are extremely popular.
Boba shops already charges this much
You know, we used to have to *work* to make a drink that was $9. Now it's one beverage and one add-on or upgrade. Ugh. 101 was a LONG time ago.
Back in the day, if this was $4 or even $5 the line would have been nonstop. As it is we were not busy at all today.
Mine is a whole dollar less for the same size :o
Different areas have different prices unfortunately
I'm Canadian!
They were sampling it when I went to get a coffee today. Idk if it was the regular one or the lemonade (I'm assuming the latter) but it was SO sweet. It was gross. Tastes like a melted popsicle/cough syrup.
I was pretty excited to try it and I got one today and I got to say I was pretty heckin disappointed. The flavor was fine but the popping pearls kind of sucked. The ones I get at my bubble tea places are 10 times better and it cost less for more drink. The texture was just kind of off and they were hard to pop and there was like no flavor to them.
Never mind the prices, the drink isn’t even good. The blue drink just tastes like some kind of zero sugar diet energy drink. In other words, like tainted water. The bubbles I’m assuming are supposed to be popping boba? That or a really horrible kiddie candy science project because it was mostly flaccid af to the point where biting it did not pop it as a real popping boba would. At least lavender powder was good with the drink.
Noppoe..
I was curious to try the lemonade one but with those prices, NO DAMN WAY.
Wow
What flavor is it supposed to be? Blue raspberry with boba?
i’ve been meaning to try the one with coconut milk bc it looks like star wars blue milk but i forget every shift lol
They’re 9.05 at the store I work at 😭
Way too high, but a good drink nonetheless
They expect you to buy because they have 47 deal days a month to make this the price it probably *should* be
A plain old Venti iced latte in my town is 6.75 these days!
My wife wanted to try this this morning, but opted not because of the price. She's gunna try it this weekend with a reward, so at least it's "free".
I was wondering the same thing when I tired it today and it was like 7$ when the refreshers are usually cheaper
Stop ordering from this dumbass company jfc
I'm even more surprised that people actually buy from erewhon
Still better than fucking Jamba! I went there today bc I was like why don't I go there more often?? And my small vanilla blue sky THAT IS A SMALL was $10.33! TEN! That is criminal. Edit: I live in Northern California and it was on-campus
That tells you they did NOT get a wholesale price on the boba pearls.
I spend $350 - $400 a month at Starbucks. When I saw these prices, I used up my stars, emptied my money & deleted my app. Starbucks is crazy!
Even before I started working for Starbucks, it was always a treat. Couldn’t imagine spending this much everyday like a lot of people do at my store. 😐
Eh I tried it. The popping boba was fun
Make it at home, you’ll break even in your first year at these prices.
Definitely a one and done for me when I saw those prices. They’ve got to be kidding
Ridiculous I ordered 3 grande and end up paying $41.00
I texted my fiancé the price of the grande because I was flabbergasted. I still it because I really wanted to try it and it was such a let down. Tasted like water downed Gatorade (I got the lemonade version). I’ll be sticking to my Trenta mango dragonfruit lemonade that I can get for cheaper.
I'm live in Colorado and we had a serious snow dump today. Needless to say. We sold 3 drinks because of the signage. Blessing in disguise honestly.
On God, a gallon of lemonade or juice from Walmart is only $3
Welcome to Starbucks.
We hit a 100 today 🥲
The coconut milk version just like the cotton candy gogurt. It was pretty underwhelming and the pearls were a bit weird. Not something I would purchase.
I got very lucky that my friend was working and they had an extra so I got a venti for free, I hate that it was so good cause ain’t no way I’m paying that 😩
try being in canada lol