Starbucks UK 4+

Handy, nice to skip the queue, but my god is it slow and unresponsive. It feels like every time I try to use it I have to wait for a minute or two at the location selection screen regardless of where I am or network conditions. Often times I lose patience and kill the app to try again. Favouriting a location is utterly pointless because the favourite list only loads after the main location search loads, at which point you don’t need the favourite list, so the amount of time saved is always 0 or negative. When you’re ready to check out it takes ages to simply give me the total, and then woe be unto me if I want to switch to a different payment method. Even switching from eat-in to takeaway has a loading time. Want to use app balance? Let’s check how much you have: loading… oh sorry you’re out of money. Click on reload: loading… click to choose payment method: loading…. choose amount: loading. Checkout: loading…. You get the picture. Sometimes I’d rather just wait in queue. Look if you want to make an app that needs to make a round trip to the server even to scratch its nose, the server has to be fast. There are reviews from two years ago complaining of this.

Yeah I know it’s a strange title but this is a true story, let me tell you from the beginning. I’m 14 year’s old and I have diabetes type 1 Last night we went out with my parents to have a walk, as we started walking my blood sugar went very down and I couldn’t even walk walk because when the blood sugar comes down you can’t even stand on you feet. Anyway I didn’t have any medications with my self to fix the blood sugar. But suddenly I remembered that I had picked some sugar from Starbucks, so I putted my hand in my pocket and I found the sugar that I picked up from Starbucks and I just ate the sugar and it was very helpful for me. And now this is the story “Starbucks has just save my life” or maybe we can say “Starbucks has saved a HUMAN’S life”❤️❤️ Thank you Starbucks And also thank you for reading my story❤️ THIS IS A TRUE STORY 😌

Arr! Me be leaving’ me old review below deck arr! But y’all should know the recent update be askin’ me what ounces me take my drink in arrrr! Lucky me a pirate over the age of 70 or else if I were a youngin one would be clueless of the ounces, arrr! Unless one be a yank of corse arrr! Me hearties! Maybe buy coffee from a coffee shop from the 21st century, arrr!

Original review from 2020: My flat mate and I were out a walk and decided to place an order to collect. Had to download this new app, which doesn't accept Apple Pay meaning I had to enter a load of card details while standing outside the cafe. Not happy to even do this as I don’t see why Starbucks need to permanently store my card information in this day and age, is security not important to you? Due to various errors and issues the whole process took 20 mins before I could “top up” £10 (and why is this a thing!? Why do I need to “top up” a card by £10 to buy £7 of drinks!?) and place an order. One of the drinks I ordered didn’t even seem to get communicated to the store, which the staff put right, thank goodness the staff seem to have more sense than Starbucks HQ! I won’t be using the app again until I can place an order by Apple Pay for the amount of the order I’m placing. You know, the way every other company does it in 2020!