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2024-05-02 Economy

Customers Fed Up With Starbucks: 'You Want HOW MUCH for a Cup of Coffee???'

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-02 01:03|| || Front Page|| [162 views ] Top

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For the price of 2 SB Grande coffees, I can purchase a Wally World <$12.95, small 2 cup coffee maker and a small can of coffee.

BTW: Anyone else noticed, the New 2019+ ground coffee in cans has a lot of color variations now? Like filler is being added.

However, given "Ingredients" listed on the coffee can usually just say "Coffee". Does non-Coffee Beans parts of the plant also count as coffee, under USDA listing rules?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-05-02 05:40|| 2024-05-02 05:40|| Front Page Top

#2 I get a 12 pack of WalMart brand Cinnamon Vanilla k-cups for $4.75 that lasts me all week, or up to two weeks if work isn't being TOO insane.

On the other hand, $4.75 won't even get me a cup at Starbucks, much less one with lousy coffee in it.

Did the math.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-05-02 07:55|| 2024-05-02 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 It's getting harder to squeeze the pee out of all those mermaids.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2024-05-02 10:22|| 2024-05-02 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 7-11 and McDonalds have better tasting, and brew more consistent coffees. Consistency is important to branding.

I drink my coffee black and I have not received a decent cup of starbucks coffee since before they started serving breakfast. All the coffee shops have similar tasting black-no-sugar coffee anymore.

My theory is that burnt coffee has a bigger coffee flavor profile in those mixed sugary coffee drinks, and the sugar mellows burnt flavor down a few degrees to more palatable. That answers my why.

Anyways. Am not a fan of combo coffee and breakfast joints because the coffee always seems to decline as they refocus on foods, and once your black coffee flavor profile declines, there's no sugar or other crap that can hide it.

Posted by mossomo 2024-05-02 12:45|| 2024-05-02 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 I've tasted instant that was better than Starbucks "coffee".

Posted by Old Patriot 2024-05-02 17:20|| 2024-05-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Wife gets the darkest, nastiest stuff at the store because after adding all the BS her beverage "still has a little coffee flavor."

People noticing their Five Dollar Footlong costs $11+.

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