These are the drinks that people pay "$5" for. I go to starbucks since I can get a big coffee for $1.75, and a refill for 50 cents, assuming they even charge me. So when a place opens up that I can get 40oz of coffee for less than $2, I'll go there
Posted on 08/07/2006 6:41:13 PM PDT by sig226
Anybody who pays $5 for coffee does because they're stupid, venal or both.
Never understood the mindset that would pay $5.00 for a coffee.
What's really weird to me is the same people who pay $5.00 for coffee and $2.50 a pint of bottled water are the ones screaming the loudest about gasolene prices.
It's 1.80 for a 21 oz coffee.
The $5 ones are milkshakes they call "coffee".
The IWW: International Workers of the World, aka "the Wobblies" was a Communist union in the teens, 20's, and 30's.
"By terminating me on Saturday, Starbucks has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's an anti-worker, anti-union company," Gross said in a phone interview from New York City on Monday.
Note to Mr. Gross: Maybe Starbucks has finally awakened from their stupor to realize that unions are not good for business??? At least in most respects?
It's a buck eighty for a large coffee at Starbucks.
It's the girly drinks that are more expensive.
These are the drinks that people pay "$5" for. I go to starbucks since I can get a big coffee for $1.75, and a refill for 50 cents, assuming they even charge me. So when a place opens up that I can get 40oz of coffee for less than $2, I'll go there
Looks to be a Nørwêgian mööse, disguisêd as a Møntana mööse!
'bout 3 seconds. But look at the label carefully. What is being presented to us as a river in MT looks suspiciously like the Henry's Fork of the Snake River. Those wiley mööse-jahadeen photoshoppers have struck again!
Classic! At first I thought it said "Moose Dreck" (note to self: must clean screen) and no, I don't want to report on any major flavor differences twixt dreck & drool.
LOL.Don't give these guys any ideas! I expect to see a brand spanking new MooseDreck Cafe in Bozeman next time I go up there - every other independent coffee shop & brewpub in MT has moose in its name, which is, I presume, a take- off on the mega-brand "Starbucks of the Rockies" - Caribou Coffee.(HQ'd in Minneapolis though - with nary a rocky in sight).
Have you run across the book Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer, With Not Enough Illustrations by Ronald Searle? A classic.
Never was a big Jackson Browne fan. I was following the Who and the Stones at the time . . . although I do like the NGDB. . . at least their Circle album.
It was founded in Chicago in 1905 at a convention of 200 socialists, anarchists and radical trade unionists who were opposed to the policies of the contemporaneous AFL union.
At its peak in 1923, the Wobblies claimed about 100,000 members. Today, the IWW numbers around 2000 members worldwide.
The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class, and that the wage system be abolished.
The union's goals still include "promoting worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class."
Along with Starbucks, Borders Books is a current target of IWW campaigns to unionize employees.
The Wobblies most famous member today is Noam Chomsky, radical Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at MIT.
Leni
Well, it's one of the few companies I've seen whose employees stay in low level food service jobs for many years at a time, so how "anti-worker" can it be?
That's interesting - I didn't know that Chomsky was a Wobblie. It figures, though. He would be against wages. If he had to produce in order to get paid, he'd be panhandling.
What 5 dollor coffee?
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