How did Starbucks get so huge so fast?
 

Can anybody tell me? And now they're launching a music label.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...sic-label.html

Location and yuppies

that's crazy

By charging $4.00 for a cup of coffee.

By fooling us all into thinking that VENTI was better than LARGE.

They just bought a chain of stores in Portland called "Coffee People." I preferred Coffee People's stuff over Starbucks. Now they have shut down all the Coffee People locations. Nothing but empty building there now.

Shitty thing to do, IMO.

Starbucks created a lifestyle.

i didn't like starbucks for years. I caved and bought into it. Now it's like a strange comfort thing. It's like i can be in almost ANY place and get my fix the exact way and style i'm used to. Not to say I don't hit up a cafe other places... but in the morning when I NEEEED the fix I don't mess around if I have the choice.

Good point !!! :thumbsup

I think they got in right when the seattle sound was big. it was kind of a place for everyone into grunge to chill. sort of like a gen x hangout. Then it just took off from there. Then you would always see celebs being shot by the paparazi with a starbucks coffee in their hand, and by chance the label was showing etc. Just was one of those companies that got in at the right time. Sort of like those old paysites with those shit tours that were doing 1000 joins a day back in 98.
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they are big because they got a plug in Austin Powers :1orglaugh

They put a coupon for 1 free latte in every mac computer sold.

It's called "smart marketing".

and that a small was really tall

I have to say, after reading the article, it is a pretty smart move.

I have purchased more CD's and books at Starbucks in the last year or two than everywhere else combined.

they've been around since 1971 . . i would say that's exactly an overnite success . . would you?

But that's only like 50 free latte's... :Oh crap

they got something on the coffee that makes you crave for more thus would bring plenty of $$

Please don't attempt to use logic which you don't possess.

Ding ding ding.

25 cent coffee for $4.

Yeah, that one always gets me. I always ask for SMALL, MEDIUM or LARGE, then they look strange at me and says the VENTI or TALL size and then I repeat what I just said until they just do it.
It is damn annoying. That said, I like the coffee and I dont mind paying 4 bucks for it. Then again, I am an idiot.

I heard the first time you turn on the printer you buy with the mac its the first thing that prints up. lol Also they have been around for 20 yrs thats not a overnight success.

I dont know . . first time I went to a starbucks was in china .. I be wondering what up with them strange terms . . why you dont be using mc donald terms


they do it for t - shirts . . large small . xxl . . extra large ? wtf is a tall coffeee? a tall t - shirt for tall people I could understand ? but a tall coffee ?

decent coffee

the funny thing is consumer reports rated dunkin donuts coffee the best tasting of them all and it costs a shit load less.

It's not the coffee you pay four bucks for. :winkwink:

I have never stepped foot in a starbucks in my life

I sure do visit the cocainebucks down the street a lot though

what is it? the cup?

I am totally serious

I don't drink coffee and I have never been to starbucks, what is it that people pay that $4 for? cause that seems really insane to me

for $4 I can have 2 pabst drafts a block away and be tipsy

Why is it people pay $100K for a Mercedes, when they can buy a Lexus for half the price and actually end up owning a better car? :)

columbia incorporated .. they have what you need. . cant find their tax returns though

because if I don't get my quad venti white chocolate mocca every morning I might kill somebody

You're paying for their marketing.

You dont drink coffee I knew there was something I didnt like about you lol

They also have the chain store advantage that they are everywhere and you know that you will get the same cup of coffee in one store that you will in another. You don't have to risk getting a crappy cup of coffee flavored drek at a non-chain store.

Cause its legal crack!!

You would think so, but it isn't exactly accurate.

As I travel around the country I find myself in many places that don't have a Starbucks, or the one that is within a 50 mile radius is in some Border's Bookstore or something.

While they may have been given the recipe, they certainly have not been given the training, and there is a definite difference between the one I get here in LA and the ones I pick up in OK or IN.

Fast?? They've been around for quite some time.

Rappers put out one album then start a music company...

The secret to Starbucks' success
 

Cuz I straightened their shit out in the mid 90's

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