I have a two-sided coffee maker. One side makes a 12-cup pot (a “cup” is actually 6 oz.). The other side has two options: a K-cup or you can brew a scoop of ground coffee to fill your mug. During the work week, I take my thermos of coffee to work because the office coffee makers are always disgusting and I refuse to be the only person that ever cleans the coffee maker and pot.
On the weekend, I do the single-serve scoop or a K-cup. Really, I don’t get the angry customer part. Don’t like the price or the product? Do something else, what’s the problem?
I also think the price/pound is apples and oranges when comparing ground/beans and K-cups. The K-cup weighs about nothing but it gives me a damn strong cup of French roast that fills my 14 oz. travel mug. In the quantity that I buy it ($12 for 18 K-cups), it costs $0.67 to fill that travel mug. It’s significantly cheaper than your average mini-mart and is WAY cheaper than Starbucks.
Yeah, I could do it cheaper, but I like the convenience of the K-cup and I’m at a place in my life where I don’t feel the need to nickel-and-dime it like my college days. At $2.00 for 42 ounces of coffee, what’s the problem. And if you don’t like it, go do something else.
This is nothing but a classic case of people complaining because they can.
As usual, it's not so much the "angry customer part" as it is the "Washington Post reporter trying to come up with a story" part.
The change in Keurig’s policy will not have any effect on the way you make
and take your coffee to work.
However, it will allow the rest of us a lot more freedom.
And that is a good thing.