The Starbucks Weirding Index: the fraction of visits to Starbucks which involve encounters with crazy and/or homeless and/or walking-bathroom-accident people (inside the store, not on the street). At least 30% over the last year.
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Same here in ultra-gentrified Brooklyn. but it's hard even to measure because the change is so high that I think I've avoided some visits altogether
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yes, very noticeable uptick. it did sort of seem to coincide with that controversy over the guy who got arrested over not buying anything a year ago, but not positive if causal

