Re: High-end coffee king retrenches

[Guest guest]

I agree about being overpriced. I've only been in a Starbucks once and that was a few years ago. I walked in looked at the menu then saw the prices. That's when I laughed and walked out. Got some nasty looks from the customers in line. Passed a bookstore on the way back to the hotel and got two nice little books for what a midsized cup of coffee and a snack would have cost me. Returned to the hotel and used the in house maker to brew some of my own coffee for a fraction of the cost.

I've also bought some Starbucks coffee at the grocery. Very high priced and I couldn't taste an difference between it and the 8 O'clock coffee that I usually buy.

In a message dated 4/16/2009 1:20:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

The more of these stores that close the better. Their products are overpriced, and the people who buy them are just wasting their money.Administrator Great deals on Dell's most popular laptops - Starting at $479

[Guest guest]

That's a very good point. I've only been to bars twice. Once by choice and another to evade some suspicious people who were following me one night when I was on vacation. They were much too noisy and wild for my taste.

The coffee houses did seem quieter. But I didn't stay long enough to find out. Maybe if it was here in town and wasn't a place I found while on vacation I might have stayed or visited again.

But they have value as an alternative to bars, as a meeting place where folks uncomfortable around loud environments and alcohol feel more comfortable. So I often have to go to them in the course of local aspie meet-ups. Join ChristianMingle.com® FREE! Meet Christian Singles in your area. Start now!

[Guest guest]

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> The more of these stores that close the better.

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> Their products are overpriced, and the people who buy them are just wasting

their money.

Yes they are, and I won't spend a penny (a dime to you) on the food in them, for

one thing.

But they have value as an alternative to bars, as a meeting place where folks

uncomfortable around loud environments and alcohol feel more comfortable. So I

often have to go to them in the course of local aspie meet-ups.

The herbal teas are the most economic buy. I don't even like coffee much. But

it's good not to have to buy alcohol just to be in a social space.

[Guest guest]

"Yes they are, and I won't spend a penny (a dime to you) on the food in them, for one thing."

Actually more like two cents.

"But they have value as an alternative to bars, as a meeting place where folks uncomfortable around loud environments and alcohol feel more comfortable. So I often have to go to them in the course of local aspie meet-ups."

Good point. Yet for me, who hates the cloying smell of just ONE type of coffee in the first place, it's hell. I would never attend a meeting in a coffee shop if I could help it. You might get more folks at your meeting if you wereable to rent a room at a community center or church or something.

"The herbal teas are the most economic buy. I don't even like coffee much. But it's good not to have to buy alcohol just to be in a social space."

Also true. They say alcohol lowers inhibitions. That is a polite way of saying that alcohol causes people to make stupid choices. Better to go without it in social settings.

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[Guest guest]

" I've only been to bars twice. Once by choice and another to evade some

suspicious people who were following me one night when I was on vacation. They

were much too noisy and wild for my taste. "

Both of my prior employers had after hours meet-ups at bars and I hated them.

The first couple of times I tried to enjoy the experience, but it was

impossible.

-I did not like the people I went to the bars with.

-I did not like the people in the crowd.

-I did not like the volume of the music.

-I did not like the choice of the music.

-I did not like the drinks.

-I did not like the food.

-I did not like the waitresses.

-I did not like how silly people got the more they drank.

-I did not like how stupid people got the more drunk they got.

-I did not like how everyone thought it was the most totally KEWL, radical,

awesome, happening, dude, experience of their lives.

In short, I thought it was pathetic, and I felt sorry for anyone who would make

bar-going and bar-hopping a significant portion of their lives. It all increased

my depression and hopelessness for being able to find people who were of my

calibre of intelligence and decent to communicate with.

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[Guest guest]

Starbucks have got coffee drinks that I enjoy, especially the cold ones, but

they are too expensive. I only treat myself to them every once in awhile