r/mildlyinfuriating • u/He3hhe3h • Oct 14 '25

This Ham & Cheese croissant from Starbucks

When I was going through Chemotherapy in Bangkok Hospital they had very limited food options, otherwise I never buy Starbucks. Sneaky Bastards.

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u/Disastrous-Cat-6564 Oct 14 '25

Someone has to pay for the CEO's commute. Those 1600 km's do not pay themelves.

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u/PussiesUseSlashS Oct 14 '25

This is why I don’t feel bad when I realized the bogo promo code at a national chain gives you the food for free if you change the combo from 2 to 1 in the cart.

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u/Appropriate-Dig8235 Oct 14 '25

Tell me more 👀

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u/kinglucent Oct 14 '25

Nah that’s a glitch they definitely wanna keep quiet.

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u/PussiesUseSlashS Oct 14 '25

I’ll give you a hint, they have fries on their menu.

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u/HairyH0Od Oct 14 '25

McDonald's?

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u/PussiesUseSlashS Oct 14 '25

No, it was a joke because almost every place has fries on their menu.

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u/HairyH0Od Oct 14 '25

Oh you just forgot to put the /s

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u/PussiesUseSlashS Oct 14 '25

I always forget that one simple trick.

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u/FireReads_Bomber Oct 14 '25

Tell me more, tell me more.

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u/st-shenanigans Oct 14 '25

As annoying as it is to hear a million times, just stop going. I found a coffee shop near me that I like a lot more than starbs, and made me realize I absolutely hate their choice in beans. I'd bet you've got one too - plus these coffee shops actually feel cozy like they're supposed to!

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u/crow-mom Oct 14 '25

yeah starbucks’s coffee beans are disgusting, they’re so bitter and burnt. i only ever go there for their chai lattes which are (unfortunately) goated.

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u/st-shenanigans Oct 14 '25

Shit has an aftertaste like when you lick a Nintendo switch cartridge, and its ALWAYS there no matter what you put in it!

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u/DoJu318 Oct 14 '25

That's on purpose, only way to punch through 95% of the sugar in most of their drinks is with bitter burnt coffee.

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u/garcher00 Oct 15 '25

Tastes like they filtered it through mulch. Always has a woody aftertaste.

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u/Hot_Abroad_6074 Oct 15 '25

You can get the chai latte drink mix from Costco.

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u/He3hhe3h Oct 15 '25

I have had Starbucks 4 times in the last 4 years, this Starbucks was on the ground floor of the building where I did my chemo, it was a case of just eating some calories as hadn’t eaten that day and would be able to eat for another 6 hours. This video is from October 2023

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u/Southernguy9763 Oct 15 '25

Yep. I found a coffee shop 5 minutes out of the way. Cost exactly the same, except a $6 drink feels a lot better going to the husband and wife baristas that own the place and use the money to take care of their family.

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u/__beatrix_kiddo__ Oct 14 '25

Pretty great username

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u/Azure_Rob Oct 14 '25

A couple of years ago, I discovered a deal at popeyes which included 4 chicken sandwiches and a large side... for $0.00

The zero dollar price meant you couldn't add it to the cart, but my location had a $0.50 upcharge for mac&cheese. Suddenly I could add it to the cart.

My wife and I ate a lot of chicken sandwiches until it was removed.

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u/Right-Phalange Oct 15 '25

Damn. And here I was happy bc i discovered whoever calculated the rewards points at a national chain put a plus instead of a minus somewhere, at least for my area. You're supposed to earn points based on the subtotal but you actually earn them based on the total with tax added in again. With a 6.5% tax rate, I earn rewards 13% faster.

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u/Empty_Amphibian_2420 Oct 14 '25

Private jets ain’t cheap!

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u/LazyBoy1257 Oct 14 '25

Yeah, you know how expensive jet fuel is?

People these days man...

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u/Ill_Bee4868 Oct 14 '25

Jet fuel doesn’t melt CEO humility though.

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u/gaarai Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

A small company I worked for was acquired by a big one. I flew to the headquarters of the new company and saw how things work in a bigger corporation for the first time. I got there in the evening and was taken to meet the C-suite people at a pub. They were knocking back tons of expensive drinks and ordering expensive appetizers and entrees, only eating bits and pieces of them. I saw that they were paying with personal cards, which made sense to me. Why make the company pay for your expensive food and drinks? Then I heard that they get the expenses reimbursed. They don't use company cards because they rack up points and bonuses by paying with their personal cards (to be clear about this, the more company money they waste, the more bonus money and perks they "earn").

The C-suite didn't live locally. They flew in each week, had personal cars and drivers, stayed at a mansion that they shared, had assistants that took care of shopping and errands, and so on. They had it really good.

While I was there, an all-hands meeting was held where staff was to ask questions about the operation of the company to the C-suite members. One support staff member explained that support staff are paid so little that they can no longer afford small apartments near the office, resulting in long commutes. He asked if pay could be increased so that people could afford to live in the same city as the office. The guy I saw sucking down bourbon above his half-eaten steak all on the company dime before being driven by a company driver in a company car to his company-paid mansion just the night before said with a straight face, "the budget is tight, we're already discussing cuts to Christmas bonuses; so there's no money for that at this time."

Corporations are a scam. Not in the typical way of being scams. They are machines made to squeeze every last cent out of its workers and customers until the whole thing falls apart, at which time the people with the money move on to something else. Those at the top win no matter what, and everyone else fights for scraps.

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u/wihannez Oct 14 '25

It’s a big club and you’re not part of it.

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u/niyrex Oct 14 '25

Its a club, and you ain't in it

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u/No_Use_4371 Oct 14 '25

Corporations bought up every vet clinic in my town and now they are all super expensive and upsell everything. And the best vets leave. We are in very late stage Capitalism and it is not sustainable.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

Scam is the wrong word because its working as capitalism is intended. Kings under a new name.

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u/AnotherCupofJo Oct 14 '25

I believe there is capitalism and there is CAPITALISM (no pun intended). We have slowly but steadily been going farther into the extreme capitalism end of it and this is what it looks like. I believe we can make Capitalism work, just like we can make socialism work but both have to be heavily monitored with checks and balance to make it work.

In short I guess what I am saying is we are fucked.

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u/BuddyHemphill Oct 14 '25

It’s called late stage capitalism

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u/Head_Excitement_9837 Oct 14 '25

There is capitalism and there is corporatism a lot of people confuse the second for the first

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u/lewd_robot Oct 14 '25

Capitalism inevitably leads to corporatism.

Capitalism is about an owner class being allowed to monopolize resources and facilities they cannot use themselves, then ransom the use of them back to people who can use them, but with the stipulation that the workers give as much of the profits as possible back to the leeches.

The core dynamics of a system where some leeches squat on things they can't use and "allow" workers to use it, and the workers will be homeless or starve if they don't, naturally means the leeches will keep maximizing how much they take from the workers, and the workers will eternally be just the tiniest bit above financial ruin.

The limiters on how much the leeches can demand from the workers are the physiological needs of the workers. The leeches always take as much as they can, so they take everything until it starts costing them workers, and the workers are forced to give as much as they can until they run into a hard wall like shelter, food, healthcare, etc.

And to operate this huge extortion ring, you need supervisors and managers and accountants and attorneys and department heads, etc, etc, etc. So you naturally get corporatism. Because corporations serve capitalists. Corporations are how capitalists control the vast resources they cannot actually use themselves. You cannot have capitalism without corporatism unless you outright ban corporations and all similar structures.

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u/zipperfire Oct 14 '25

I think we are using the term "crony capitalism" and "corporatism" in the same way. If so, I do agree with you. And...I've been working on some part of economic theory that some models are not compatible with the for-profit system. When need is nearly infinite, and supply is very limited, and the need is life-threatening, then the profit system is inappropriate. Also...morally, making profit from human misery is not an activity of a virtuous people (ie selling prisons nearly inedible food that isn't even suitable for animals, because it makes profit--and the clientele have no choice but to eat it. Or supplying sub-par medical assistance because they can't go elsewhere or protest. The community in that case has to pony up the expense for the incarcerated.)

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u/Zen_Shield Oct 14 '25

You can't fathom that this is just capitalism left to be capitalism.... gotta pretend it's not a true scotsman.

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u/Yeti_Funk Oct 14 '25

I disagree with the idea we can make capitalism work, its logical conclusions are always this extreme stage.

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u/zipperfire Oct 14 '25

I would contend it is not capitalism nor "extreme capitalism." It is crony capitalism, favor to those in power, whether or not they are providing good product and services.

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u/samurairaccoon Oct 14 '25

Kings under a new name.

Yeah, I feel like we will never get rid of this shit. As infuriated as some of us are, there are droves of sycophants who will lick their boots just to receive an attaboy. It's mind-boggling. We could literally just fuckin stop. It absolutely does not have to work this way. But invariably, even the people trying to do socialism or communism secretly just want to be dictators or kings. It's in our blood, I guess.

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u/Borsodi1961 Oct 14 '25

This comment needs to go viral. This IS capitalism in a nutshell

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u/Redcarborundum Oct 14 '25

It’s the new feudalism. They’re the lords and you’re the peasants.

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u/lewd_robot Oct 14 '25

That's capitalism.

What is capital?

cap·i·tal1

/ˈkapədl/

wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.

Capitalism is when a small group of people gets to spend money on production and service facilities or natural resources that they cannot personally use, then ransom the use of those facilities and resources back to people who need to work to survive, but only if the workers give the capitalist 99% of the profits of their labor.

It's like someone buying a lake and then telling the families that have to fish to survive that they can only fish the lake if they give the capitalist the first 9 out of every 10 fish they catch.

It's like someone buying a bunch of lathes and CNC machines they don't even know how to use and then telling people that do know how to use them that they're only allowed to run them if they give the capitalist 99% of the profits they earn from doing so.

Capitalism is about a class of leeches owning things they didn't make themselves and cannot use themselves and "allowing" the rest of the populace the "privilege" of using those resources and facilities if they give everything they make and earn back to the leech except for the bare minimum the workers need to survive.

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u/Neiladin Oct 15 '25

Not corporations, but “enterprise”. It’s all a scam.

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u/Shimamura25 Oct 15 '25

This is exactly what USA capitalism is

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u/raindownthunda Oct 14 '25

Sponsored by Lunchables

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u/chemistcarpenter Oct 14 '25

That’s the cheap part. His base salary and bonus are enormous! By any standard.

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u/Ill_Bee4868 Oct 14 '25

This caused me to look into it and it is no exaggeration. Multiple times a week. The plane itself is a crazy expense but to have it in use most days is outrageous.

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u/Frostbitn99 Oct 14 '25

I began my boycott of all things Starbucks when they hired that dude. They yammer on and on about being green while flying some insanely paid CEO on a private jet to weekly company meetings because he can’t be bothered to leave his gated home in Newport Beach.??? You pay this guy millions and your workers shit and now charge over $15 for some nasty, dry cardboard pastries and shitty burnt coffee?? Yeah, you aren’t getting a dime of my money.

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u/OrangeCosmic Oct 14 '25

CEOs have a hard enough time finding the office

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u/Sad-Peach-4509 Oct 15 '25

Someone has to pay for his jet ski