Not that I follow these "tests" with any degree of regularity, I just find it peculiar that my hunches about the decline of Starbucks just might be a little more than valid. Consumer Reports
What the hell is up with those brandnames.
Chock full o'nuts? Kickapoo? Eight o'clock coffee? Who the hell came up with these brandnames and who can take them seriously?
I've been doing some maths. For 5$/cup, assuming you drink only 1 cup/work-day, excluding weekends and holidays, that adds up to about 240 cups/year or 1200$ at least.
Guessing here, but i assume ppl drink several cups a day, and on weekends and holidays, and there are much more expensive and larger size drinks so it can cost up to 3.000$ a year, maybe more.
you could buy a brand new the most modern PC every year, or a decent car every 2-3 years, or have a very nice 2-3 week vacation.
Great logic
So you sit on your little cloud of judgment calling people morons for "wasting" their money on something they enjoy. Than you try to say a better use of money would be to waste it on a new PC every year? :lol:
Get off your high horse, the "I am anti-conformist and hate all the popular brands" mindset is played out.
^ How about people who go to pubs and pay near $10 for a pint of beer? It would cost them 1/3 of the price if not less to stay at home and get drunk. But they go to pubs to enjoy the atmosphere and enjoy the company of others.
I don't like the atmosphere at Starbucks, but some people do. Like I say Starbucks isn't the place to get straightforward black coffee.
There are those who go to Starbucks daily and really do spend much more money there than they should, but there's also others who go there once or twice a month for a bit of a 'treat'.
So people are morons based on what you do? I am sure if you asked everybody in the country what was worse, buying a cup of coffee everyday before work (as shawn pointed out, normal coffee isn't $5) or upgrading their computer to the new cool parts every year they would vote the computer. You're calling people who go to starbucks morons because they are 'wasting money' but have somehow convinced yourself that what you like isn't.
And their cups aren't even that big. $3 for a 12oz cup of green tea does not compute. That's 50 cents if I wanted to do a shot of green tea. No dice.I rarely, if ever go to starbucks, because when I do, I spend like 8 bucks on a cup. I'd rather just make it at home for pennies.