Re: Paying 50 times the price
For unmolested (black) coffee, Starbucks is around twice as expensive as the convenience store, or around twenty times as expensive as brewing it at home.
Of course, Starbucks coffee is subsidizing their various costs, particularly the physical plant which houses a bunch of students, bloggers, hipsters, and the like who buy a single cup and then sit around all day taking up space, electricity, and wi-fi bandwidth. But it's still a lot to pay for an over-roasted indifferent blend.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
