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What is Starbucks getting on the benefit side of the equation? Fewer visits, less money spent, and less time spent in locations.
by JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
What is Starbucks getting on the benefit side of the equation? Fewer visits, less money spent, and less time spent in locations.
- tmpz22 7y agoPeople are assuming a cost/benefit analysis was made and the right profit-generation decision arrived on. I’m more inclined to believe they guessed and they guessed wrong - trying to calculate the relative cost of Twitter outrages is impossible and over the next few years they will correct the decision based on homeless deterrence strategies they develop in the meantime.
- anm89 7y agoI think they traded a fixed reduction in sales for removing the possibility of a massive boycott / public image blowout. This is essentially an insurance policy.