as if they care

This is nothing short of Starbucks typical! It happens with everything! Egg bites “had to come back”... coconut milk “had to come back” anything that sells extremely well — Starbucks ALWAYS drops the ball! Never freaking fails!

Nah, there’s totally a secret barista hacker cabal that’s all y’all are a part of that brought down oat milk as a personal affront because of the shaken espresso with oat milk.

(Probable actual customer thought. I’m a former barista and I feel for y’all dealing with this shit still)

From a business standpoint, it must be nice to sell your entire stock like that.

But other than that it’s sucks for everyone else

Hopefully when it comes back, it will be in real sized containers, not the tiny ones

I had to warn all my baristas today to be ready for those customers lol.

"do you have oatmilk yet????" *Super whiny voice*

Just remember how popular it is.

Because they have an IPO coming up, and Starbucks is only 1 of the chains that will be carrying Oatly.

There's no way they didn't know how popular oatmilk was gonna end up being I'm convinced they're doin this on purpose to be honest. This coupled with releasing literally all of the shaken drinks and its not looking like a fun summer at the bux

We haven’t had Oatmilk at my store in 2 weeks now I think. The customers have been horribly relentless.

Oh nice, I was wondering why some had it and some didn't. Damn corpos, what you gonna do about it *sigh*

Happened the other day to me! Mobile ordered oat milk. Got to the drive thru. Saw a sign and quickly asked for coconut, apologized for ordering oat milk and thanked my barista. What else ya gonna do????

It's almost like oat milk has been a massive success outside of Starbucks, and corporate should have considered this beforehand. Now we have to pick up their slack and explain to customers that no, baristas aren't the ones who plan these releases, and no, it's not our fault there is a shortage.

Happened with Mango Dragonfruit, too. As if our clientele wouldn't gobble that up when they advertised it!

That’s not on my app but I can see that the om option is gone and the drinks featuring it are gone. But we had it in our store yesterday so now we’re going to be that “other store” that has what you are denying the bratty customer

My manager prepared for this and we still have a couple of cases left...

RIP.

This reminds me of the summer they promoted tea lemonades and refreshers we were out of lemonade every damn day. Order quantities were limited and zeroed out every week. We basically bought out every grocery store around us because we were so sick of the verbal abuse.

I do not miss my partner days one bit. I feel for y'all!

Arizona barista here! Weve been out of Oat for a whole month. I don't remember Coconut doing these numbers. What is it about oat milk that sells so much. It just tastes like almond milk to me.

Yikes the amount of people I had the past few days that place the order the call 10 min later after the drink was placed to say "oh your app wouldn't let me select oat milk so I had to chose almond. Can you make it with oat instead?" 🙄

Starbucks really said “supply chain management who” 🙃 now we all suffer for it

https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2020/sep/01/oatly-vegan-milk-sale-blackstone

As a former barista I feel your pain so hard. I’m so sorry for all the shit that’s about to come your way. Keep your heads up it’ll all work out

I'll tell everyone it was all u/astavania 's fault when we run out :p