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Top 15 Countries with the Most Starbucks

Name the 15 countries that have the most Starbucks coffee shop locations.
Source: Wikipedia
As of March 2024
Quiz by QueenBea
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Last updated: March 18, 2024
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Stores
Country
15,952
United States
6,147
China
2,359
Canada
1,415
Japan
1,214
United Kingdom
1,080
South Korea
663
Turkey
550
Taiwan
Stores
Country
531
Mexico
500
Indonesia
410
Thailand
401
Philippines
351
Saudi Arabia
327
Malaysia
270
India
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Level 74
Oct 3, 2017
Also known as 'Top 10 Countries with the Most Disappointing Coffee' :P
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Level 86
Oct 3, 2017
I didn't even think of trying Italy, France, Belgium, Austria and some other highly caffeinated european countries. Turkey is the only one (a bit) surprising.
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Level 81
Oct 3, 2017
I think Italy just got its first Starbucks.
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Level 75
Jan 26, 2018
You didn't even think of them, yet you wrote a sentence about it...?
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Level 69
Jan 31, 2018
The first Italian Starbucks will open in Milan this summer. Such a disappointment...
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Level 46
Jan 31, 2018
Roleyrob, I read Arp's comment as meaning that he thought of those countries but decided right away not to try them in this quiz.
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Level 75
Jun 5, 2018
mishmash, I was just being sarcastic. I get bored *sigh*
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Level 49
Mar 24, 2024
it's sarcasm if you're proven wrong, eh?
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Level 65
Mar 25, 2024
No, you just misread and skipped the "of trying," misreading is not sarcasm
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Level 74
Mar 25, 2021
roleybob, where is the sarcasm?
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Oh please Erdogan is in the US's pockets. All he cares about is being Sultan, that's what the Turks call him " the Sultan" most hate him.He'll do anything to keep his 1000 room mansion.
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Level 65
Jan 31, 2018
Or top 10 countries with the most over-priced coffee!
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Level 74
Jan 31, 2018
I go to Starbucks to get what I want, I don't give a damn if its' "good" or "bad" coffee, what I want is the thing that matters. Also I don't have to think if it's overpriced or not.
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Level 39
Feb 1, 2018
That doesn't sound very smart
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Level 60
Feb 4, 2018
So tell me what you want, what you really really want ?
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Level 76
Feb 1, 2018
What coffee? :D
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Level 79
Feb 22, 2021
There's nothing wrong with Starbucks' coffee 😊
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Level 71
Mar 18, 2024
It's not the worst. But it's also not the best. It's definitely overpriced though.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Yes there is. It's disgusting. Have you never been out of the States?
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Level 80
Mar 27, 2024
You know what's fun? You can often click someone's username and see a map of the countries they've been to
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Lol! So true and their hot chocolate s*cks too
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Level 65
Mar 25, 2024
who censors sucks???
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Level 67
Mar 24, 2024
The UK has other popular coffee chains as well, such as Costa Coffee and Caffè Nero.
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Level 66
Oct 3, 2017
Absolutely awful coffee. I've been twice. Once to try it and once when my wife dragged me in there.
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Level 34
Aug 14, 2018
lol what? that must be torture, or even worse
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Level 82
Oct 3, 2017
Also known as "top 10 countries not full of pretentious full-of-crap coffee snobs." I saw plenty of Starbucks in France and plenty of people going there to get coffee.
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Level 66
Oct 13, 2017
Well, you certainly didn't see plenty of Starbucks "in France"... You saw them in Paris where they are only concentrated. And, being a born and raised Parisian, I can guarantee you that 90% of the people you saw inside are tourists visiting Paris ;)
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Level 69
Oct 14, 2017
So Paris is not in France then?
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
No, it isn't; is Frankfort, Kentucky the USA?
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Level 82
Nov 6, 2017
Thanks for chiming in, aforementioned snob. Also, what noodles said.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
People with good taste aren't snobs. People with bad taste and money are
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Level 75
Mar 25, 2024
Snobbery isn't about taste. It's about attitude toward those with different taste.
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Level 60
Jan 31, 2018
Yes Paris is in France and is full of tourists as explained.

How do you explain there are almost no Starbuck outside Paris in France if it is not due to the tourists going there and not the French people themselves ?

Starbuck is not dumb if they know they could earn money they would build shops everywhere, but they don't so...

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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
You're right. None in the South.
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Level 7
Jan 31, 2018
you do understand, there is more than one city in france
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Lol! I know. Paris is all Americans know.
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Level ∞
Jan 31, 2018
French coffee is terrible. I've had a lot of it. Most cafés give you two gigantic packs of sugar for about 2 ounces of coffee. The fact that someone could dump an entire sugar pack into such a small amount of coffee and still feel the need for more reflects poorly on the quality of the underlying product.

Many, many people agree with me.

Don't even get me started on Belgium.

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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Their hot cacao is superior. In fact everywhere in Western and even Eastern Europe the hot chocolate is actually made from cacao unlike milky swiss miss Starbucks. Why are you defending Starbucks so staunchly? It's weird. Objectively, their coffee is inferior as it's burned and they don't know how to process the beans
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Level 82
Jan 31, 2018
this is rarely much substance behind snobbery. It's as often as much about hating something popular as it is about liking something of superior quality.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Projection.
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Level 72
Jan 31, 2021
Snobbish rejection counterexample: "Marseille locals fight to save a beloved McDonalds": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/europe/france-marseille-mcdonalds.html
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Level 78
May 12, 2021
The only snobbery I see here is reverse snobbery. In general French coffee is excellent, and therefore they don't need Starbucks.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
That's common in America(and elsewhere). It's called gaslighting and projection.
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Level 49
Jul 29, 2023
To counter these dudes, I see more snobbery targeted towards Starbucks than pro-Starbucks snobbery.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
I spent a lot of time in Paris and you are right. No Parisians go to Starbucks at least not for the coffee and I doubt for anything else. Even the food is subpar. Everything has cheap ingredients it tastes and is artificial. Compare their " hot chocolate" to Paul. Paul is so far superior and Paul is the worst of France's hot chocolate lol!r. Their hot chocolate tastes like the packages in the supermarket in the US.Starbucks is a favourite among the weirdo wealthy in the US since their friends founded It so they lie and say it's good coffee. Never betray a brother even if his coffee is so bad it's criminal. It is outrageously overpriced AS And awful.
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Level 67
Jan 31, 2018
Why are they snobs just because they don't like Starbucks? People have different tastes, it's not about being snobby. I don't care, because I don't like coffee in general.

Btw, I'm not surprised you chimed in again as soon as someone else didn't like/criticised something from your precious America. Seriously, it's like you have the need to defend the US on every. damn. quiz.

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Level 59
Jan 31, 2018
Sometimes disappointed with kalbahamut's comments. Sigh...
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Level 82
Jan 31, 2018
Disliking something popular doesn't make you a snob. Sticking your nose up at it because it is popular (and thus "low class"), while having an exaggerated, unwarranted, loudly professed love for some allegedly superior but less mainstream other product, while condemning those who like the product for their poor taste (such as accusing them of being less cultured tourists) does make you a snob. It's the bloody definition of the word.
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Level 67
Mar 22, 2024
TLDR: Kal is sorry.
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Level 82
Feb 3, 2018
.... because.... ... Europe is the mainstream popular product.... and.... the USA is the smaller, less popular, less well-known, alternative.... that... "cultured" snobby people say they like to be hip?

If you're going to try to parade your bigotry out under the guise of saying something clever it might help if you were actually clever.

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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
I am American but born in an international city so we KNOW that Starbucks is gross since NYC has authentic Italian cafes. We aren't defensive because we have tasted the best of every country. Starbucks is disgusting. After having travelled that is heir apparent.
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Level 75
Mar 25, 2024
Greatgull, maybe look up 'heir apparent'.

More generally, your many comments here are not impressive in the way you seem to think they are.

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Level 47
Feb 1, 2018
well, I live in Austria and we only have starbucks in Vienna. I prefer the coffee I grew up with. sorry for being a "snob".
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Your coffee is better. I hate Starbucks and I'm American also no mention of how it abuses it's workers because of course that doesn't matter. A true snob defends Starbucks. People in the US see it as a status symbol to get their " whatever the new flavour is" there. You hurt their feelings. I like hot chocolate and Starbucks ' cheap milky watered down artificial imitation chocolate doesn't do It for me. Even Paul is better.
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Level 61
Feb 2, 2018
There's a lot of pretentious coffee snobs (as well as other kinds of pretentious snobs) in the U.S., too. Hipsters are everywhere, bragging about how they don't like stuff now that it's popular.
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Level 82
Feb 2, 2018
of course there are. I was echoing redsplat's comment at the top of the page.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Do you care about Starbucks ' egregious abuse of its workers how many lawsuits and scandals have there been?
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Level 37
Apr 7, 2021
Disliking the brand, its products and its strategy does not necessarily make you a snob.

Moreover, people who go to Starbucks in Europe can be considered very snobbish too, happy to walk down the street with their 5€ cup of coffee as if they were in a TV Show.

Starbucks is very expensive here compared to what you can get in a bakery or a standard café. So I would not say it's a "popular mainstream product" (a cup of Starbucks latte is almost as expensive as a whole McDonalds combo - which is a better example of "popular mainstream product").

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Level 78
May 12, 2021
aka "top 10 countries not YET full-of-crap coffee snobs to be exploited by Starbucks". Starbucks coffee is a good product with a wide-ranging appeal (same as McDonalds, Burger King, KFC - you see where I'm going with this?), but it is far from being great coffee. Given a choice I'd go to an independent coffee-house every single time. Call me a snob if it satisfies your overarching need to be 'right'.

Incidentally, I'm with Bvlln above here ^, and CMJ below v

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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
They aren't coffee snobs, Starbucks is burned cheap coffee. It is a capitalist venture alone with cheap watered down coffee. The weirdo snobs are actually people who think pumpkin spiced latte is good lol! Hilarious the lack of culture.
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Level 64
Mar 25, 2024
You really can't take any criticism of America can you? Starbucks coffee is terrible. Holding that opinion doesn't make you pretentious.
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Level 54
Nov 30, 2017
In coffee country (Starbucks HQ), where I live, the coffee snobs don't go to Starbucks. They go to some local coffee shop with small batch roasting and organic pastries made from local ingredients.

Starbucks isn't for coffee snobs any more, it is for people who don't know any better. With the advent of Fraps and Pumpkin Spice, Pecan Maple, and Sugar Sugar Lattes, the coffee snobs have abandoned it. Starbucks is largely a sugar delivery service and less and less about the coffee.

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Level 82
Jan 31, 2018
If you are responding to me you might have misread my comment. We are in agreement.
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Level 45
Jan 31, 2018
China is placed below Canada even though it has mores stores
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Level ∞
Jan 31, 2018
Fixed
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Level 65
Jan 31, 2018
"Starbucks Coffee Indonesia is now in 320 different locations all around major cities (22 cities), connecting to Indonesians one cup at a time"

As quoted from their website

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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Tragic.
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Level 46
Jan 31, 2018
Maybe add another minute? I could have got it if I had more time to think.
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Level 5
Jan 31, 2018
Starbucks is the biggest scam ever. you walk inside and order a small coffee and it ends up costing you a fortune! starbucks tastes awful and looks like crap. i live in USA and the only starbucks i know is infested by white girls who post every starbucks they get on instagram or snapchat. way to go starbucks.
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Love your post.
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Level 69
Jan 31, 2018
The last Italian Starbucks will close in Milan this winter
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Thank God. I thought they were going to inundate It like Mexico. Or 7/11 in Thailand.
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Level 73
Jan 31, 2018
Starbucks is what it is, retail chains tend to lose their cool factor as they grow. There will always be something "cooler" or "more authentic" or what have you.

I guess that's why the world has snobs and hipsters, to figure all that stuff out for us, so the rest of us don't waste our time worrying about it.

I got everything but Turkey. Count me among those who tried Indonesia.

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Level 29
Jan 31, 2018
Try the name the countries with Coffee Beans here
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Level 65
Feb 1, 2018
The amount of Starbucks in Vancouver is astounding. You'll see more than one on every street corner.
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Level 82
Feb 1, 2018
well they started not far away in Seattle so that's not surprising.
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Level ∞
Mar 18, 2024
I did the math. Canada has more per-capita locations than the U.S.

There is one Starbucks for every 22,000 Americans.

But there is one Starbucks for every 16,000 Canadians.

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Level 70
Feb 3, 2018
Interestingly, one of the best examples of failed business attempts was Starbucks to Australia where they didn't do their research on the market. The post WW2 immigrants from Italy, France, Greece, UK, the US themselves and local Australians meant the market was already so competitive Starbucks in Australia collapsed really quickly.
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Level 82
Apr 16, 2018
A point of pride for our country, I think, at risk of being called a snob. I think Australia has one of the best developed coffee cultures in the world.
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Level 74
May 13, 2021
Agreed 100%
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Yes. You try to explain that their coffee is not good but people who haven't tasted good coffee accuse you of being a snob instead of a tasteful(pun intended) person.
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Level 70
Jul 6, 2018
8/10. I forgot Turkey and Taiwan.
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Level 79
Feb 22, 2021
I forgot Turkey!
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Level 57
Aug 14, 2020
1:12 left
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Level 81
Feb 7, 2022
I for one am surprised that the Vatican doesn't have 400 Starbucks locations.
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Level 67
Jun 11, 2023
Needs an update. Indonesia should be on there now, knocking out Thailand.
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Level 75
Aug 30, 2023
Turkey? That proud old coffee nation? What are you doing in this list?
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
That's hilarious because Turkish coffee is AWESOME and the cay is the best in the world except for Chinese Jasmine.
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Level 65
Mar 18, 2024
UK the only Euro nation...embarrassing...
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Level 63
Mar 19, 2024
Why is it embarrassing? Isn't tea bigger than coffee up there? Wouldn't expect a big traditional coffee culture as I would in Italy e.g.
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Level 83
Mar 26, 2024
We had a HUGE coffee culture up until the nineteenth century. That was the drink you'd have associated with England at the height of the Enlightenment, and the coffeehouses were famous throughout Europe. Kind of sad to see how far we've fallen really.
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Level 75
Mar 18, 2024
Taiwan is flush with the Bucks
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Level 75
Mar 18, 2024
one roughly every 25sqmi

US has one roughly every 238sqmi

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Level 73
Mar 19, 2024
Lots of comments about the quality of Starbucks' coffee, huh...

Well, you can get other types of beverage and food there other than plain coffee. Though I come from a country (Brazil) with a whole different coffee culture, one that Starbucks struggled and ultimately failed to adapt, I find its other products quite nice even if very pricey for brazilian standards. I remember going there specifically for its ice coffee with vanilla or something like that. Quite good. But for plain coffee we already have a lot of good options in our cities and even in our rural areas.

I also liked its atmosphere and decoration, shame it didn't worked out here.

No hate for you coming from Brazil, Starbucks.

Better luck next time!

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Level 68
Mar 19, 2024
550 starbucks on the island of Taiwan?
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Level 59
Mar 20, 2024
That is what the data says
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Level 72
Mar 24, 2024
My local Starbucks proudly displays an enormous sign that says that “99% of our coffee beans are ethically sourced!” I find this a little worrying because this must mean that 1% of their coffee is unethically sourced. Which seems OK, until you realise that they have annual revenue of £36billion (2023) which means that they make £360million from unethically sourced coffee beans. Not great, although I guess it depends on how they define the word ‘unethical.’
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2024
Wise.
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Level 55
Mar 24, 2024
It's absolutely terrible coffee. I'm always grateful they are almost non-existent here (Australia) because our local barista coffee absolutely rocks compared to that watered down overly sweetened over price rubbish.
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Level 49
Mar 24, 2024
Lmao I love the cover image
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Level 67
Mar 26, 2024
It suggests Starbucks is expensive and is bleeding people dry.
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Level 26
Mar 26, 2024
What about "Caprica" (Battlestar Galactica reference)?