Assuming that was tourist locations. Coffee is famously expensive in those areas.
Starbucks will open its second WA store in Clarkson (in the north) on Thursday. I dare say with lines still out the door, and long waits at Piara Waters (the first store) this might have been fast tracked.
A third store will be open before the end of the year also.
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Doing a rough estimate, there are at least 25 Starbucks stores now operating in Victoria. At least 15 drive through stores located in the suburbs, 5 city shop front stores in the CBD and the balance set in major suburban shopping centres. .
Their footprint is definitely growing around the country.
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Let’s hope for their sake that they have learnt from their mistakes of their last attempt at trying to crack the Australian market.
Yeh theres been a new store regularly opening across a couple of months for the last few years.
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i would assume they have, given the new owners have extensive experience in australia - they were the ones who brought 7/11 to australia and eventually sold it to the japenese parent company
I was just in Sydney.
I always say London is not that expensive- because my normal work travel takes me to LA and compared to LA - London restaurants and groceries are cheaper. London groceries in particular are cheap compared to LA
Then in Sydney for 3 weeks I realised how cheap Sydney is. Groceries and dining out seemed really affordable to me.
UK wages are also a lot lower than Aussie ones and we don’t get 12% super in UK
With cheaper groceries, taxis. Restaurants - higher salaries + 12% super - oz is definitely the better place financially to live
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Having spent a lot of time in LA too, it really depends where you shop. There are very cheap supermarkets with great produce if you shop outside Vons and Ralph’s etc and venture into Mexican supermarkets.
London is and always has been expensive. But yes average salaries are a joke.
The Piara Waters Starbucks was the biggest opening day ever in the Asia pacific region beating the one at Hong Kong Disneyland!
Only if Carl’s Jr only held out a few weeks they might’ve not gone under with both Piara Waters and Butler opening soon which would’ve drawn big crowds!
I’m comparing Ralph’s/Pavillions/Target etc to Tesco/Sainsburys/Asda to Coles/Woolworths.
Australia the cheapest.
Also experienced Hawaii groceries lately. Holy heck - double Australia
Last month, the company reported a “pronounced traffic decline” for the 2023-24 financial year, and a decline of 6 per cent in North America and 14 per cent in China for the quarter ending September 2024. In a letter posted on the company’s website, CEO Brian Niccol attributed the loss to a combination of factors, telling employees that under its current model, Starbucks can “feel transactional, menus can feel overwhelming, product is inconsistent, the wait too long or the handoff too hectic”.
Whenever I go the Meatball sub I make sure I ask for heaps of onion for this reason.
I remember ordering Subway on Uber Eats and some how the salad request didn’t make it through so I got bread and chicken without any salad not what I intended to order. I had subway a few weeks ago and it was fine quality wise.
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This original and exclusive burger features a shared recipe but one major difference: it comes with flame-grilled meat exclusively at Burger King France and crispy chicken exclusively at KFC France.
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