Starbucks Tipping Fiasco Leads to Canceled Vacation

Starbucks Tipping Fiasco Leads to Canceled Vacation

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Strategic Resource Group Managing Director Burt Flickinger on which businesses are struggling with pandemic exit strategies. An Oklahoma man said he was forced to cancel a family vacation after a couple of cups of coffee at Starbucks cost him almost $5,000 because of a venti-sized tipping error. Jesse O’Dell reportedly thought he had spent around $12 for the coffee but found a $4,456.27 charge from Starbucks on his bank statement after his wife’s credit card was declined while shopping for shoes and clothes ahead of the planned trip.“I felt disbelief,” O’Dell told told the Kansas City Star. “I don’t have that kind of money sitting around to just play with.” O’Dell said he contested the charge but was initially told by Starbucks that the purchase was legitimate …

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