skydivekingair comments on Dark side of Starbucks app: Coffee giant accused of rigging payments to the tune of nearly $900 million over 5 years

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[–] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And yet they still claimed an average of $180,000,000 a year the past 5 years that people didn’t spend.

I’m with you this is something Starbucks probably doesn’t engineer, it’s just people being dumb.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It’s definitely a dark pattern built into the app / gift card experience.

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[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Kind of. The app doesn’t in any way tell you that you can use the card balance to pay part of your bill and then use a credit card for the rest; I only found out when a barista told me

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[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Does this include people that just use their Starbucks cards for frequent purchases? I always have up to $25 on my card for the one or two times a week I get something. That is just money I haven't spent yet, and I'm fully aware that I could just use it up if I stopped going to Starbucks.

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[–] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Well… as someone who thinks he spends more money at Starbucks than is smart I’d go as far to say anyone going there is a little dumb lol

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