It’s a lot of money
It’s social
Regular secondary relationships like customer and clerk ease loneliness and enhance social skills
It tastes good
It provides energy boost
It’s a much better habit than a corner bar, a social ritual that goes back millennia
Meh. I’m retired. Pretty much every morning I walk the dog down to the local coffee shop (not a chain) to get an espresso drink and then browse the news on my phone for a while. Very nice start to the day.
I’ll spend my money how I like plus the dog likes it.
“Regular secondary relationships like customer and clerk ease loneliness and enhance social skills”
Yeah, those daily interactions at the Caribou drive-thru are really socially enlightening alright./s
Relatively mild addiction to caffeine and the surrounding social cues. Notice mild withdrawal symptoms.
No other way to explain long lines of cars at local drive thru coffee establishment before rush hour.Plenty of things taste better. Plenty of things less expensive. Plenty of things more conveniently, and quickly accessed.
It’s not healthy, and they, parents and peers have trained every child to by expensive sugary slop ‘coffees’ every day. Candy and ice cream taste good too, but do we really need more obese diabetic children and adults? Oh wait we have pharmaceuticals for that (shakes head in disgust) so not only are children trained to enrich socialist ‘coffee’ companies we produce more clients for the pharmaceutical companies.
Americans have become a nation of live for today and not worry about the future because, hey...that’s what big government is for.....right?