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Re:What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe? by Jaruzel on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:06AM (#16374975)
To create brand loyalty. If you regularly get coffee in a loss-making Starbucks, you are more likely to always get coffee from Starbucks where-ever you are.
Re:What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe? by always_good on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:57PM (#16379292)
Worked on me. I associate Starbucks with a place I can go to work for as long as I need after buying a large coffee.

These sorts of submissions have made me self-conscious about going to non-Starbucks to get any work done, heh.