Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers

5 months ago by Scrubbles to c/enshittification

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/3838226

I was annoyed enough to write all of this up. I used to go regularly, and the rewards program was genuinely a good deal, and made it worth going to Starbucks. Now, even if I set aside all of the horrible things they're doing, I wanted to show just what an absolute shit program this is, and why there is absolutely no use in trying to "gain starbucks status".

Rinzler 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah I got the email and said time to uninstall the app. I barely got Starbucks enough to use the rewards program before so now no reason to deal with it.

path: 0 22600861, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0
Onomatopoeia 7 points 5 months ago

Its a rewards program - nothing but a data collector.

For overpriced, shitty Starbucks "coffee".

path: 0 22603030, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
enshittification
enshittification

@lemmy.world

login for more options
5173
165
422

What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

go to feed...