

Starbucks positions itself internationally as an ultra premium brand. I remember visiting one in Thailand and being astounded that the prices were the same as the USA, just converted to bhat. This meant that a single drink could cost like half a day’s wages for a poor Thai person. I imagine the situation in China used to be similar before wages and purchasing power caught up. Now that consumers in China know enough about coffee to tell that Starbucks is crap, they won’t pay American prices for it any more, and it’s got Starbucks sweating.
nor do they care about small time hit and run stuff. Yet I filed a police report with photographic evidence (they wouldn’t let me upload video) from my dash cam of the moment a driver backed into me in a drive thru and damaged my bumper. This is not because I’m a snitch, it’s because if I ever want to go to insurance about it then they will demand a police report to prove it happened.