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What's with Starbucks'?

JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
What's with Starbucks'?

$3.59 for third rate Colombian coffee at Starbucks, whereas I pay $.55 a cup for super premium Puerto Rican coffee at the family owned and operated coffee shop that's next door to my office.

Them young urban non-chalant professional types must know something I don't.

[:(!]
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  • trapguy2007trapguy2007 Member Posts: 8,959
    edited November -1
    Status symbol .
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    All hype. They're from Seattle, so it must be good.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Polite Psycho
    What's with Starbucks'?

    $3.59 for third rate Colombian coffee at Starbucks, whereas I pay $.55 a cup for super premium Puerto Rican coffee at the family owned and operated coffee shop that's next door to my office.

    Them young urban non-chalant professional types must know something I don't.
    [:(!]




    Not a snow balls chance in hell.... anyone that would pay four bucks for a freaking cup of coffee is a MORON, not opinion, fact.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    birds of a feather flock together....
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    Same reason other worldwide franchises do well.

    Folks know what they are getting when they order, say, a Big Mac, in any part of the world...

    I hate franchise America.

    I love franchise America.

    [?]
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Starbucks"
    Also known under the trade name "Seattle's Best"
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  • IdahoboundIdahobound Member Posts: 20,587 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Starbucks is of the devil.
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Still say Farmer Bros. still makes the best coffee. @1/3 the price
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  • steeltoe1978steeltoe1978 Member Posts: 3,248
    edited November -1
    I got a free cup when I opened up my bank account at PNC so that they could activate my debit card (there was a Starbuck's cart near the bank, and the bank put exactly enough money in my account to get a large coffee and pay for it with my card to activate it). Other than that, coffee is free all day long at work, so why pay for it?
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:$3.59 for third rate Colombian coffee at Starbucks
    For 16oz
    and people a griping about gas @$ 4+ a gallon.[:D][;)]
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not a huge coffee drinker-but once a week I'll treat myself to a iced frappacino(fancy way of saying cold coffee with crushed ice) and THE BEST donut in the world as Starbucks up here carries Top Pot Donuts[:D] for regular drinking coffee Peets is pretty good but I agree with you guys I just am not going to pay $3.50 every day to drink something that should run about .50
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  • sabb0007sabb0007 Member Posts: 755 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    don't knock Starbucks, I just invested in it.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...Only went to Starsucks when we were in Vegas...(it was the closest coffee shop). Try ordering a "cup of coffee" once. The hoity toity coffee maidens don't know what to give you. Sorry, but I don't speak coffee Italian or coffee French.

    ...It ain't "Americano". It's a cuppa Joe!
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  • Jacob2008Jacob2008 Member Posts: 19,528 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by sabb0007
    don't knock Starbucks, I just invested in it.
    That was dumb. People wont pay that much for 16 oz of coffee over 1 gallon of gas.


    The local hardees gives free coffee before 7am, and free on tuesday mornings.
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  • kyplumberkyplumber Member Posts: 11,111
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Polite Psycho
    What's with Starbucks'?


    not me.
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's all about their investment strategy in high quality paper cups.
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  • JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ruger41

    I agree with you guys I just am not going to pay $3.50 every day to drink something that should run about .50



    I have no vested interest in these, but here it goes:

    http://www.yscoffee.com/Default.htm

    World's best coffee is grown here in the US of A!

    [:D][:D][:D]
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Polite Psycho
    What's with Starbucks'?

    $3.59 for third rate Colombian coffee at Starbucks, whereas I pay $.55 a cup for super premium Puerto Rican coffee at the family owned and operated coffee shop that's next door to my office.

    Them young urban non-chalant professional types must know something I don't.

    [:(!]
    They use really, really good paper cups. [:D]
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hit Starbucks when I get the gift cards for it. It's a VERY good cup of coffee for $2.05 out the door. 7-11 does a good cup of coffee for $1.69 out the door. When I go to 7-11 I stand in line behind all the illegal immigrants pouring 20 containers of half and half into their cups and then adding an inch of coffee. Oh, and the coffee pots which everybody handles get washed about once a week. Really.

    At Starbucks, it's clean, fast, and I get to listen to good music. For 36 cents more, it's worth it to me.

    All that said, once these gift cards run out I'm going to have to quit and that is going to be a BEAR.
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  • Colonel PlinkColonel Plink Member Posts: 16,460
    edited November -1
    The only coffee franchise I patronize is "Hot Java Cafe".
    As far as I know, there are very few of them. Two here in Sterling and a couple up in the Northwest.
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  • Spc FergusonSpc Ferguson Member Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ill stick with making my own.
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  • non mortuusnon mortuus Member Posts: 649 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think SB had the idea that if they put up a shop literally on every block, people will be fooled into thinking they're actually a good store or something.
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll take a coffee flavored coffee, please.
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Polite Psycho

    I have no vested interest in these, but here it goes:

    http://www.yscoffee.com/Default.htm

    World's best coffee is grown here in the US of A!

    [:D][:D][:D]





    The good Doctor was kind enough to send me a can. It is GREAT COFFEE!

    Do what the Doctor sez...

    Thanks again, Dr. J.!
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never been to a Starbuck's. Make my own at home, and it's 15 cents at work.
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crazy thing I heard Yesterday about Starbucks and McD's. In a blind taste test McD's coffee beat out Starbucks (so Super Size that[:D]).
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  • WoundedWolfWoundedWolf Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know what y'all are talking about. If I get up too late to make my own, then I will stop at the Starbucks about a half mile from my house. I get a "grande" (16 oz.?) regular coffee for $1.85. I toss in some nonfat milk and a packet of Equal and I am good to go.

    The bonus is that the girls that work at my local Starbucks are REALLY CUTE! So I don't mind so much paying the $1.85.
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Polite Psycho
    What's with Starbucks'?

    $3.59 for third rate Colombian coffee at Starbucks, whereas I pay $.55 a cup for super premium Puerto Rican coffee at the family owned and operated coffee shop that's next door to my office.

    Them young urban non-chalant professional types must know something I don't.

    [:(!]

    A few points:

    Starbucks house coffee isn't third rate Columbian, its a second rate blend of various Latin American beans, with a characteristic "over-roasted" taste.

    A regular "tall" 12 ounce (or 1.5 cup) Starbucks coffee costs only around $2.00 (less, actually, though it depends on where you are buying it).

    Sure, thats more than the $1.25 cup at McD's, but its not 3x the cost.

    If you want to spend $4.00 on a Starbucks, of course you can, but that money gets you some kind of gigantic 20 ounce monstrosity, with syrup, cream, chocolate, or other flavorings. I'm not saying that's worth $4 either, but its not really fair to compare it to the routine coffee at Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds.

    Here's a good tip on how to get a good coffee from Starbucks on the cheap:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2133754/

    As to why people line up for these overpriced coffees, one simple reason is that the house blend is HIGHLY caffienated, more so than usual coffees. If you consider that caffiene is an addictive stimulant, this partly explains brand loyalty (and also partly mitigates the price, since the cost PER MG OF CAFFIENE is lowered for Starbucks).

    Lastly, its not just a coffee, its a BRAND (ie an image, a lifestyle, etc), and that's what's being sold along with the liquid in the cup.
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do not drink coffee, but I wonder what drinking all this super power coffee will do to the next generation? Will prolonged exposure to triple certified carmel kung fu late general venti have ill effects? I don't know, but lots of folks drink a lot of joe there, thats for sure.

    My wife likes Kona coffee, from Hawaii, she thinks its fancy.
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    PR's Cafe' Monteverde makes an awesome decaf.

    Monteverde Sunrise.
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by FrancF

    "Starbucks"
    Also known under the trade name "Seattle's Best"

    Seattles Best is not Starbucks.
    They are two seperate companies.
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I drink Starbucks for free. Not because I can but because I like the taste. [:D]
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