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Coffee chain Manner Coffee announced last Sunday that it will launch delivery services in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities by cooperating with food delivery giant Meituan.
Many Chinese web users took to social media on Wednesday to comment that Starbucks has raised the price of various products by 1-2 yuan ($0.16-0.32), including americanos, lattes and a range of food items.
A Chinese web user took to social media on Monday to accuse a Starbucks employee in Chongqing of driving out a group of on-duty police officers, on the grounds that their eating at the storefront would affect the coffee brand's image.
The three-year exclusive cooperation between Starbucks and Ele.me will expire on December 31 this year. As a result, Starbucks is seeking new partners in the Chinese mainland market.
In response to recent food safety problems, Starbucks China posted on its official Weibo account a statement on Monday saying that it had immediately closed two stores involved in a food safety scandal.
Xingran (Shanghai) Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) was formed by the strategic collaboration between Starbucks China and Sequoia Capital China on Sept. 8, 2020.
Starbucks took another step toward evolving the digital customer experience for customers in China by cooperating with Alibaba and launching a smart speaker capable of ordering coffee delivery by voice.
