its so small too...

hearing that people were fighting over them and mistreating the employees ofc

oh no

another Stanley Cup

pretty much

like its cute!!!! but it so sucks for the people who wanted it not to resell and of course the employees that had to deal with the shitty customers...

omg adorable

can't you just...go to starbucks and buy one?

(i'm not a coffee person, so the ways of starbucks are mysterious to me)

here you can buy their cups from their online stores

Oh cute

i read this as "beer cup" and thought starbucks was really branching out

kadath: you would think but apparently stores only stocked a few so a lot of people who were trying to buy didn’t get it

dactylgirl: LMAO if only

halcyoning: some cups are online and like the Disney ones you can get on the parks but it seems like most are in store only...

time to get an empty honey bottle, write "starbucks" on the side, and rock your...whatever you drink out of that

peppermint latte?

ohhhh

Starbucks is in TROUBLE…(the bear cup drama)

The reseller drama is crazyyyyy

I wanted one but ppl were lining up at like 3 a.m. and there were only like 2 or 1 per store?

yeah, only 2 according to the video

good lord that's such a stupid move on corporate's part

its like they wanted their employees to get harassed

I don't have the energy to line up for anything at 3 a.m. anymore

and that's awful the employees got mistreated

I would never

the hello kitty merch is also adorable omg

same

nothing is worth getting up that early

the hello kitty stuff is cute tbh i'd rather have got that

same

and you know a lot of these people are just buying to resell

the tumblers and the plushie are being ignored from the looks of it?

since people are going crazy over the bear cup

like its cute but uh its crazy

I found one lone Hello Kitty plushie in a Starbucks today

yeaaaah

the bear is the main focus it seems like

ooh

this is not normal behavior and look I own labubus so I can't judge the "peak consumerism" of it all (but I like to think I behaved rationally and didn't go overboard with them) but .... yeah.

ALSO people complaining that employees got them.... GOOD

they have to deal with your entitled ass nah they deserve it

as a labubu owner I can't say much but it would've been helpful if Starbucks had more than like... 2

fighting, yelling at them and acting entitled as shit - good let them have it

also if resellers weren't involved in everything

yeah they really screwed this its like corporate wanted this thing to go badly

anyways i'm gonna go to Starbucks and see if there's any hello kitty stuff left over

if there is any, fine - if not, not the end of the world

starbucks saying that the drop exceeded expectations and they sold more of these than any other item so far - i'm calling bullshit

they knew how much people wanted these things and they made the conscious choice to stock 1-2 per store, artificial scarcity at its FINEST

companies do the surprised pikachu face all the time when they sell out of a hot item

like c'mon they know it's gonna sell out fast

they live off the hype

it is sucky that only 1 - 2 of the cups are being sold (which is a dick move on corporate's part) but yeah, the employees can get first dibs

absofuckinglutely

they definitely deserve it

like put aside a certain amount for the employees to get and stock enough so you don't have angry ass people trying to kill one another for it

like something like this is not hard to mass produce

cooperate's the big guy

I have a feeling they didn't even consider their employees wanting the cup...

LMAO yeah honestly I don't think they did

but they probably also don't care and now left their own employees to be harassed by the public

yeap

*big bad

a big company leaving their employees to deal with the fallout of their bad choices? gasp that never happens

same with popmart stores tbh

I hate how common that is in this day and age

oh yeah people were wild at popmart

Stanley cups

I saw a drop at target for ofc it was hello kitty, poor hello kitty always at the scene of the crime

oh, they've had the bears selling in SB Japan for years now

this is just a skeezy marketing bs

all I can think of is the costco video of people mobbing pokemon cards and like, it's so stupid these days

according to the video you can buy the cups on Amazon without the SB branding

ah yes Pokemon also always at the scene of the crime

lmao

the video even showed that you can't even fit the bear in a cup holder

I feel like that bear is an inside cup rather than an outside one...

it's giving those make up brands in the 2010's that would have like... a hundred of the item just so they could go "we sold out!!!"

'omg, we didn't expect thiiiisss, you guys, tee hee'

There was Hello Kitty 😭

I had no ideaaaa