It boggles my mind to see how many people fight and burn an enormous amount of their life waiting in a line at Starbucks.
I am not a coffee drinker, so I am not a patron of any coffee shop. Or coffee. Anyhwere. I have finally got the point across to my daughter that SB is a very nasty, toxic, almost enemy of the US. She no longer spends any money there. My wife isn't a coffee drinker and will oblige my point of view for other products they have that she has bought in the past. She's not a Starbucks customer either.
I do wonder WTH they put in their products to make people act the way they do for the stuff.
As far as how the economy is doing, look at your email. I saw MULTIPLE EMAILS PER DAY the last 4-5 days for the same retailer telling me that they had 25-30-40% off on everything. The biggest is Duluth Trading, 40% off everything. They have had 40% off sales before, but not since 2017 or so (hint, hint).
I haven't seen the retailers having sales like this in a long, long time.