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0 pointscollaborative3y ago0 comments

All coffee is good. It just shouldn't ever cost more than $2. Coffee is not a luxury. It's bread and butter

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Modern commercialism is the art of convincing everyone they should pay 50% more for a staple in order to be cool.

Starbuck's prices are insane, and most of what they push isn't even coffee.

After the first sentence I thought you were talking about fancier coffee - like buying freshly roasted specialty beans instead of coffee from the supermarket - turns out that you were talking about Starbucks.

Anyway, the specialty beans are worth paying extra for imo.

vostok3y ago

I don't care much for coffee, but I do indulge in luxury bread and butter.

Any local sourdough and Kerrygold butter is a good start. It's not thr best or anything, but it's very nice if you've never tried fancy bread and butter.

collaborativeOP3y ago

Luxury bread is yet another overpriced commodity

In mediterranean countries, "luxury" coffee and bread are sold over the counter at affordable prices. Try charging more than €1 for a coffee in Spain or Italy and you will quickly lose customers. Or more than €1 for any type of bread

However in the UK, buying "luxury" bread is always >£2

The prices are nonsense; it costs exactly the same to make one type of bread as it does another. The same goes for coffee. Production costs may vary by one or two cents and are completely automated

It's just a fashion

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