Posted on 05/03/2024 7:03:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
It would be a good time for talking and caressing, while you make the cappuchinos. I see your wisdom.
It would be a good time for talking and caressing, while you make the cappuchinos. I see your wisdom.
People aren’t willing to pay $8 for coffee they can make at home. I used to make my daughter coffee at home before school every day with the syrup and all, special go cup with a lid, just as yum if not better than Starbucks.
Welcome to America!
Try Ethiopian Coffee, Yirgacheffe. I grind my own beans. Best cup of coffee.
I observe it's the sugar they are after.
I think ever since 7-Eleven decided to substantially “up” their coffee quality, it has really put a major hurt on Starbucks. I can now get a large size coffee at 7-Eleven for just over US$2 and put in my own sugar and various creamer types.
I had a semi expensive Italian espresso maker that quit on me some time ago. I replaced it with a $100 Krups espresso maker. That is probably considered an act of blasphemy for espresso aficionados...
I count cost/use. As long as you made enough cappuchinos to have gotten your money back, it’s all good.
What? You can actually do that????
It is a strange thing when people will spend 6 dollars for a cup of sub-par coffee made by people hostile to you, who would likely spit in your coffee if they knew who you were, rather than spend the 2 minutes to do it themselves.
I don’t get it either.
“Then take the over $1,000/year saved and treat yourself to something.”
I did exactly that. Over a one year experiment, I used my Kuerig and started making my coffee at home (buying the bogo k-cups at Publix). I then took the cash I usually used for my daily cappuccinos (yes...plural and daily) and stuck it in a jar. At the end of the year, I paid cash for a Breville Barista Touch espresso maker, and buy local beans for GREAT coffee.
Industrial processed potatoes mashed up with some industrial cheese and chives, that's what a multi-million-dollar franchised industrial syrupy-sweet coffee joint is banking on?
That pitcha tell a story right there.
Not only that, he thinks kombucha will save Starbucks.......................
Over priced, over roasted...bitter coffee.
If you like chicken salad sandwiches Costco has canned chicken that makes great chicken salad. It’s fairly cheap when it goes on sale - certainly cheaper than restaurants or fast food places.
On a related note, if you're not using the apps at fast food places, you're throwing money away.
I use my dive-thru code and order from the kiosk at McD's. Almost every time I visit, I get something for free with a purchase.
I've stopped ordering combo meals. I'll buy a burger, get a small fry for free, and take it home where I'll have a can of soda to drink.
For a 2 week period, I monitored coffee sales at a local grocery store.
Shelf items were purchased in large numbers, every day.
The volume was so great, that a typical customer would suspect that the shelf was not being stocked.
When in fact, the shelf would always end up about 30% full - meaning the restocking supply in general, would be close to “completely wiped out.” And, totally “wiped out” for the most popular brand/kind of coffee.
I learned that people who drink coffee, will drink almost any kind of coffee in the morning - “it is a must have.”
Folgers is the most popular. Maxwell House is the [meager] backup. Several “custom bags” with higher prices - these do not have a shelf, volume problem.
Folgers Columbian seemed to be the most preferred.
Caffinated is desired more than de-Caff, by almost 3:1 ratio.
makes me want to download their mobile app and put stuff in my cart, then cancel it.
Maybe folks have come to the conclusion overly expensive ashtray juice served by woketards has become passé
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