An afternoon at the popular Chinese coffee chain that should be making Starbucks very, very nervous

• I visited the coffee chain that's overtaking Starbucks in China.
• What stood out to me was how efficient — and impersonal — ordering was.
• Most customers said it wasn't the flavor that stood out to them, it was the aggressive deals.

Starbucks is synonymous with coffee, but in China, it might just be losing some of its luster.

A Chinese coffee chain called Luckin Coffee recently overtook Starbucks in China, beating the international coffee chain in sales in the second quarter of 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.