[Dilbert San Diego]

I never quite understood the Starbucks business model.

They have taken an everyday item, coffee, and made it somehow into something which appeals to yuppies and trendy wealthier people. People who are willing to pay $6 for a simple cup of coffee. Somehow they have made coffee into some sort of gourmet item, and priced it accordingly.

I’m sure it all pencils out, and makes Starbucks a profitable company. And that’s capitalism 101, so that’s all good in that respect. I just never understood the appeal of why so many people are willing to pay so much money for coffee.

[BykrBayb]

If you price something high enough, and give it a pretentious name, you can get some people to eat anything. Nobody would eat snails at .50¢ a pound, but call it escargot and charge $25 for five or six of them, and they’ll beat down your door to get to them.

[4yearlurker]

A few years ago my wife received a Starbucks gift card. I had never tried Starbucks so one day we went for a nice ride and stopped at a Starbucks. I told the young lady behind the counter to give me a medium cup of regular coffee with no type of flavors added. I could only drink have of the cup and dumped the rest. Tasted like the bottom of the pot burnt crap. On the other hand my daughter loves Starbucks.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ I just never understood the appeal of why so many people are willing to pay so much money for coffee.” <<

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Simple!

They’re mostly lefties that know that Starpuke sends a sizable portion of their profits to Planned Barrenhood, Rainbow Coalition, Barack Obama, and every other Anti-American cause there is.

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[Obadiah]

Starbucks: Hangout for the hipsters.