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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
Starbucks is a total waste of time and money. I don't drink coffee and make my hot tea at home. The inconvenience of driving there, wasting gas and overpaying for coffee which should only cost pennies per cup makes anyone frequenting those places a fool. If you are that much into coffee, buy your own machine and make your own at home. You will save money and time and gas and you will have the satisfaction that you aren't a lemming willingly giving up your hard earned money to some big corporation that charges you a premium for wasting your precious time.
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Problem is:
a) most don't work at home
b) you don't save much money if you are only making a cup for yourself
c) sometimes you don't want a cup of coffee until you are already out
d) I don't want to wake up early to make coffee
e) even if I did make it before work, I don't like drinking it until I am at work so...
f) you don't drink coffee so you are an expert?
g) how many people really drive just to get a cup of coffee?
h) who is it any more lemming like to go to starbucks and get coffee vs. own a computer or a TV? Or buy a car or gas or anything really? Or what about premium beer or liquor?
I don't support starbucks and I don't understand drinking anything beyond a regular coffee there since I agree that it's overpriced. But that is just my opinion. If people like it and are willing to pay for it, who cares?
I think they are shutting down more because there are too many of them. They probably planned for this and only opened so many so that they could get good branding and saturate the market.