Starbucks tests $1 cup of coffee

By Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) - Starbucks is testing $1 cups of drip coffee with free refills in Seattle.

Starbucks isn't saying how many stores are part of the test or whether it plans to test cheaper coffee in other cities.

The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the test, says Starbucks is looking to meet competition from coffee sold at McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts.

Starbucks is the world's largest chain of coffee houses, with more than 15,000 stores worldwide.


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but just in time for the coming depression.

Bring on the hatas!

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Exactly!! :rofl:

No tanks! :hi:

How soon before dime stores make a comeback?

Not if it was the last cup on earth!

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to smell their coffee.

my stomach, not pukey but actual pain.

Starbucks is good so far. I'm wired now.

For twice the dough?? I wish I had thought of that!

The last time I was in a Starbucks, I ordered a large black coffee,
and the three kids behind the counter paused for a second and stared
at me like I was a fricking two-headed Martian.

I love coffee, and I'm spending about $1.25 per pot to make stuff
at home that is just SOOO much better than Starbucks' overhyped
CorpBrew.

Here in Seattle they put them on BOTH sides of the street. There's even at least one place I can think of where there are three Starbucks on the same block.

You'd be like a rat in a maze trying to navigate our streets.

:P

A mug of Blue Mountain costs $1.10 at the airport and that's considered expensive. Three 16oz bags of Blue Mountain beans cost us $42 wholesale.
That lasts us about six weeks.

Dear mother of Juan Valdez, are you serious?

I drink too much coffee for that...but I buy fair-trade from Trader Joes for about $8 a pound.

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Why should we not drink the best coffee in the planet? It's ours.
If we'd drive into the hills more often, we'd get it cheaper and lots of coffee friends give us free bags as well. My aunt lives overseas but visits every year. She stopped drinking coffee but never tells her friends who give her the best of the best beans when she's ready to leave. She gives us. :D

We are not giving up Blue Mountain Coffee - ever.

I roast my own coffee and a couple times a year I treat myself and buy a couple of pounds of Blue Mountain - it's the smoothest coffee in the world. Love it and it's worth every cent.

They are into Peet's or one of the Italian coffees...

My personal uppityness is avoiding them until they call a small a small. No, I don't want a medium, I want a small.

But always order a "medium"

I want the smallest cup you offer. "that's a medium". No, I don't want the middle one but the smallest. "that's a medium". If I wanted the medium size of burnt coffee, I'd ask for it. I want the smallest cup. "that's a medium".

Next, off to take on PapaMurphy's pizza that suffers from the same problem.

Starbucks. Isn't it always "tall" "grande" and "venti" or some such pretentious nonsense? I don't like their coffee, but do enjoy their iced tea - overpriced but good.

Seriously. That is total bullshit. I've never been to a Starbucks where they didn't just give me the size I wanted when I asked for a "small" "medium" or "large." Never. You don't HAVE to call it by thier stupid marketing name...just say "Small coffee, please," and you'll get a small coffee. No one ever actually asks if you meant "vedi" "vidi" or "vici" or whatever the hell they call 'em.

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I have gotten "medium is our small" from them.

reply to your #26 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2750780&mesg_id=2751617
And yes, I was talking about the fancy coffee, even lattes (which has 2 syllables by the way, and costs extra since it is hand made to order). Anything that needs that extra human touch costs. How to get around it is buy a regular cup of coffee and add lots of milk yourself. I don't have Dunkin carlyle, but support my own local coffee shop.

Why does this myth perpetuate? Maybe it's different everywhere else but anywhere I've ever been, but Starbucks COFFEE -- not their stupid dessert-in-cup drinks -- doesn't cost any more than Dunkin' Carlyle coffee, and when I purchase it I know I'm helping support some kids' health care coverage, not sending money to the Bush family.

I'd drink a cup of warm piss before I'd help finance the growth of the Carlyle Group. But first, I'll look for a local coffee shop. We have discovered some great places on the various routes to the ski slopes in Vermont, like Shelburne Coffee Roasters near Greenfield, or Java Joes in Brattleboro, and a great little place in Jamaica, VT whose name I can't even remember...we stop there every time we drive through town just to toss 'em some money so they'll stay in business!

But the myth about how expensive Starbucks COFFEE is is just that...a myth. It's no more expensive than anywhere else. Just don't buy anything that requires you to wait in line for your stupid fucking frothy sugar puff whipped cinnamon tutti frutti mocha frappa whappa ding dong.

Actually, a better rule of thumb...don't order any drink with more than two syllables.

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I would never eat there, but they make some yummy yum yum coffee.

I'm with you...I would NEVER eat at a McDonalds, but I'll stop there for coffee if there isn't a mom & pop nearby.

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good on them if it is...

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but I'm a college student on a tight budget and I'd rather get a $1 cup of decent coffee to wake up for my 8am class than go through the expense and trouble of brewing some Italian blend. Does that make me your typical cheap, lazy American? Probably, so sue me! (What's more American than that)

They're going back to when coffee was just coffee, and not part of a lifestyle.

Reminds me of the big beer companies that wanted to take back the market from the micro-brew craze. They came out with advertising saying things like, "Isn't it time for a good old-fashioned macro-brew?" With the requisite beautiful people smiling. I thought to myself, 'No, it isn't actually. There's never a good time for mass manufactured piss water.'