Originally Posted by Clemdawg
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You forgot the $5 cup of latte once or twice a day.

That one, I'll never understand.
I drink coffee. I drink it black. At home.

If I think I might want coffee after I leave my house, I take a small THERMOS® with me.

The only times I've ever spent money at a Starbucks outlet is at an I-80/90 rest plaza.
Always, the same order: "Coffee. Black. That size [points to cup stack matching Clem's desired volume]."

It gets me what I want, with a minimum of dialogue... and I don't need to learn a second language to get my caffeine fix.

Starbucks: the perfect example of the power of marketing: giving consumers permission to spend outrageous money on unhealthy luxuries that they've been convinced are daily necessities.


People are dumb.

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For a while, Starbucks wasn't a terrible value if I was running late and a stop for food/beverage was needed on the way to work. Breakfast sandwich and a coffee for not much more than $5... and there has been two times now that the local SB's couldn't be any more on my way to work.

I was laughing at your dialogue. Here's mine.

Oober: "Good morning... I'll have a sausage breakfast sandwich and a medium coffee... black."

Cashier: "a Grande coffee?"

Oober, but slightly annoyed: "No. Medium."

There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.

-PrplPplEater