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Dark side of Starbucks app: Coffee giant accused of rigging payments to the tune of nearly $900 million over 5 years | Fortune (fortune.com)

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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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