I’ve written a bunch about Starbucks over the years – most recently, their cereal coffee debacle – but let’s be honest, where ‘what the fuck’ happens, Starbucks is close behind.
Well while this example isn’t a demonstration of their marketing department being on crack, it is a demonstration of what their marketing department think of their customers.
Have a look at this.
Yes, it’s a bunch of bananas.
Amazingly, this is not the first time I’ve written about Starbucks and bananas.
Anyway, bananas are one of those fruits that are almost impossible to confuse with another.
And yet the folks at Starbucks think it is worthy of adding a sign in case they have the most stupid customer in the whole wide World.
Now, if you’re going to do that, you’d think you’d make sure they were the best looking, freshest bananas ever grown … but no … instead, they’ve curated a bunch of the most depressed looking fruit you could find.
Seriously, they couldn’t look sadder if they’d been placed in front of a television and made to watch 36 hours of Donald Trump speeches.
And then they want to charge 55 pence for one.
FIFTY FIVE PENCE.
At that price, I hope they throw in some banana flavored prozac as well.