Starbucks sells $7-a-cup coffee

Los Angeles Times ^ | November 29, 2012 | Tiffany Hsu

[ConservativeStatement]

Coffee aficionados have a difficult decision to make: Spend $7 on a full lunch or on a single cup of Starbucks coffee?

The brew in question: The Seattle giant’s new Costa Rica Finca Palmilera, its most expensive offering ever and also one of its rarest. The coffee is part of the company’s Reserve line and costs $7 for a grande cup.

[ConservativeStatement]

It'll end up in the same place as a $1 McDonald's cup.

[mc5cents]

All I can say there had better be some Jameson or Bailey’s in that cup if I am going to pay $7.

[veritas2002]

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.

[who knows what evil?]

Jimmy Kimmel has a hysterical ‘taste test’ segment on this posted at ‘The Blaze’...

[SparkyBass]

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.

[Fedupwithit]

They can sell a cup of coffee for 20 bucks if they want to...however, it's when someone buys it at that price is when becomes an actual sale. Supply and Demand 101. Let's see if there is any demand for that supply.

Anyone know if people are actually buying this 7.00 java?

[SparkyBass]

BTW: new show for us “coffee snobs” (as I’ve been called by some friends... :) )...

Dangerous Grounds on (I think) the Travel Channel.
A total nut, the owner of La Columbe coffee shops in NY (Todd Charmichael, I think his name is) travels the world to buy beans directly from the growers. The guy is a type AAAAAAA+ dude and it’s really fun and entertaining (well, to me, at least)

[facedown]

Starbucks is merely a business. What is truly dismaying is that there are people willing to pay $7 for a cup of coffee.

[Red Badger]

Not to me they won’t.

In fact, I have NEVER bought anything from Starbucks.............

[ConservativeStatement]

And I thought my purchase of “Chock full o’Nuts” on sale for $2.50 was a bargain. :-)

[Red Badger]

I won’t pay $7 for a margarita, much less coffee.........

[marychesnutfan]

The dimocrats are hoping the $7 cup of coffee will go right along with $7 a gallon gasoline.

[Chickensoup]

This is a recession thing. When people cannot afford much they “treat” themselves to something they can afford and feels like luxury. It helps them feel like they have some control over the world.

In the eighties among business peons it was calling in FedEx to deliver some meaningless paperwork. Cheap but made the caller feel important.

[twister881]

[reg45]

I can remember when a cup of coffee was 25 cents and so was a gallon of gasoline.

[reg45]

I can remember when a cup of coffee was 25 cents and so was a gallon of gasoline.

[fatnotlazy]

I quit Starbucks when I got cold coffee TWICE!

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?

[dfwgator]

[xsmommy]

I was a Latin American studies major in college and did a research project in Colombia one semester. As part of the trip we visited a number of coffee farms where coffee was grown and many plants where beans were roasted and ground etc. The coffee there was fantastic, despite them saying they exported their best beans. Also visited a coffee farm in Costa Rica about 15 years ago, Cafe Britt, and it was excellent. A coworker is actually going on a vacation to Costa Rica next week and i’ve given her $ to bring me some coffee back.

[LibWhacker]

My new favorite show.

BTW, I’ve checked out his shop’s webpage. His most expensive coffee?... $13 per 12oz bag. Not bad considering the trouble he goes to to get it (I thought it’d be a hundred dollars a bag, or some silliness like that). I’m definitely going to try it. In fact, one of my coffee loving friends doesn’t know it yet, but he’s probably going to be getting a one year membership for Christmas, as soon as I try it.