All I can say there had better be some Jameson or Bailey’s in that cup if I am going to pay $7.
pardon me while I throw up.
Let’s institute a lottery here where the winner will be the person who is able to predict with the greatest accuracy the date when Starbucks announces that it is going bankrupt.
Jimmy Kimmel has a hysterical ‘taste test’ segment on this posted at ‘The Blaze’...
I buy my 18oz bags of whole bean at Cost Plus World Market.
they have a “club”... get points for every bag purchased. On Wednesdays they double the points. They just had a buy-one-get-one free bag promotion.
Burr grinder each morning, a 12-cup coffee press... FAR better than CHARbucks and for only pennies on their dollar.
Anyone know if people are actually buying this 7.00 java?
Starbucks is merely a business. What is truly dismaying is that there are people willing to pay $7 for a cup of coffee.
Not to me they won’t.
In fact, I have NEVER bought anything from Starbucks.............
The dimocrats are hoping the $7 cup of coffee will go right along with $7 a gallon gasoline.
A friend of mine used to get coffee and a slice of “low fat” coffee cake. Turned out the coffee cake wasn't so low fat and it had enough sugar to wire her for weeks.
Vastly overpriced and overrated. Starbucks is a status symbol. Kinda like designer jeans. Why pay hundreds of dollars for some fru-fru designer's logo on your butt when you could get a pair of no mane jeans at Walmart for $15-$20?
Marketing genius.
Hasn’t anyone here ever hear of the Mary Kay effect? The worse the economy becomes, the MORE make-up they sell. When the economy improves, their make-up sales go DOWN.
During hard times, you can’t afford the BIG luxury items (vacations, new car, new clothes/shoes, etc...) But, you can afford to treat yourself with a small item (say, a tube of nice lipstick). Thus, overall Mary Kay sales go up.
This is also the reason high-end beer sales go up. A guy may not be able to afford tickets to the game anymore, but he can afford to treat himself with a high-end beer when watching the game on TV. Thus, sales of high-end beers increase during bad times.
Now look at coffee. How many people who used to drive through for breakfast ($5) and eat lunch out everyday ($7) are now trying to save money by eating cereal for breakfast at home and taking their lunch to work? How many of these people think “I can afford to treat myself one day a week to a gourmet coffee at Starbucks”? Probably lots.
But, how many of those people think “I’m going to get a regular coffee at a drive through today”? Probably not many, because (1) the drive through coffee is no better than what they could make at home, and (2) it costs more than what they make at home.
In other words, selling a high-end expensive coffee is vital for Starbucks to keep its sales volume up. And, the fact that its profit is probably twice as much per cup means they can get by with fewer overall customers. Something they’ll need to do to get by during hard times.
It’s just a specialty coffee, big deal.
There are coffee’s that run around $120 per pound that are supposed to be good, but few buy it.
You can get a 20 oz cup of Christmas blend for $2, choose that.
Oh, The McDonalds coffee ending up in the same place I guess so, pouring it on the street because its not drinkable or peeing it out still ends up in the rivers, seas and clouds.
$7 is about enough to buy a pound of decent single origin green beans. That’s what I do and roast them myself.
That’s nuts!!!
Here in Panama one can buy a good gin martini for about $4.50 or less.
The real story her is that people are PAYING $7 for one cup o coffee. I wish I could sell coffee for $7 a cup.
Gas station coffe is good for me.
I can get a variety of very good coffees from small Central American produces at my local health food store ... for $9 to $11 a POUND.
$7 is a bottle of South African or New Zealand wine, on markdown, with a lot more than a CUP in each one!
The most expensive Starbucks drink ever costs $23.60.
It starts with a Trenta cup.
One Java Chip Frappucino ($4.75), plus 16 shots of espresso($12), a shot of soy milk(.60), a drop of caramel flavoring(.50), a scoop of banana puree($1), another scoop of strawberry puree(.60), a few vanilla beans(.50), a dash of Matcha powder(.75), some protein powder(.50) and a caramel and mocha drizzle to cap it off(.60).
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz endorsed BHO, I stopped my daily routine of buying coffee at Starbucks. That’s a reduction of about $90 a month in their revenue. Adios Starbucks.