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To: rockinqsranch
Finally some semblance of sanity may be creeping into the American mindset.

We bitch and moan about paying five dollars for a gallon gas while we sit in line and wait to pay five dollars for 16 ounces of coffee.

5 posted on 07/13/2008 8:58:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Barack Obama is lika a bowl of chili - - he's full of beans.)
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To: Texas Eagle

“...while we sit in line and wait to pay five dollars for 16 ounces of coffee.”

I am a cheap sucker. Never been to a Starbucks, not going to one either. I heard about their prices for coffee. As much as I love coffee, grind my own “Rich Roast” beans, the whole bit, I won’t do a Starbucks.


6 posted on 07/13/2008 9:09:16 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Texas Eagle

“We bitch and moan about paying five dollars for a gallon gas while we sit in line and wait to pay five dollars for 16 ounces of coffee.”

As a matter of fact, today I got a medium coffee, and my wife got an iced coffee, with additives, for a total of $3.85 at Starbucks.

People ranting it costs $5.00 a cup do so to make some point, unsupported by fact.

Starbucks was the best thing to happen to donut shops, 7-Eleven and McDonalds, all of whom RAISED their coffee prices.

The subject of the article is the area called the “Inland Empire” which suffers a lot of housing foreclosures, by people who unfortunately overextended themselves.

So expensive coffee is probably just as well left out of their budgets.

There is a new Starbucks about to open in my town, and none closing that I yet now of. But if some close, fine with me.

Other specialty coffee shops make better coffee. But I DO NOT rejoice in the demise of American businesses, or the troubles of American citizens.

It would be better if everybody could afford expensive coffee!!


24 posted on 07/13/2008 10:51:28 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Texas Eagle

There is no equivalence between the price of commodity like gas and a specialty product like an individual cup of gourmet coffee.

Gas is a bulk item with a very small variation between vendors. Comparing Starbucks to gas is like saying that a restaurant is ripping people off with a $50 filet minon when feeder calves go for 49 cents a pound.

If you want to compare gas to coffee, compare gas to unroasted coffee in burlap sacks.


35 posted on 07/14/2008 10:33:06 PM PDT by MediaMole
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