I bought a croissant today from my school cafeteria and it cost me $2.80! The same miserable pastry sells at a local grocery chain for 60 cents each. I can tell that’s where they get them too. What a damn rip off! We are starving students at a community college FFS! Who can afford that shit? Also, I notice that they charge students 50 cents just to use Interac—every single student, every debit purchase. There are thousands of students… They are making a killing off of debit charges. This is ridiculous, lower your prices! —What a Rip Off
This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2012.
they pay on debit charges to you, the logical solution is to buy the one from the grocery store and take it to school with you. For a starving poor student community your not showing very good money smarts
That way it may not be warm then but at least it’ll be cheap.
You don’t keep any change on ya?
These kids today and their plastic.
You’re really gonna piss off the thug who mugs you, having nothing to fork over….
Definitely not a finance or business student ….. buy your shit at the grocer and consume it at school. Geezuz, don’t tell us you are too busy to do this … it is a fucking croissant …… nice to be flush with cash and no brains at the beginning of the term as opposed to be broke with no brains at the end of the semester.
I side with this bitch on a matter of principle. This is a community college, not a Mom n Pop shop. I’d be surprised if the student cafeteria isn’t getting nice margins on those 50 cent transactions, despite not offering any value added.
That said, vote with your wallet, not your stomach.
To echo what everyone else said, you pretty much solved your own dilemna in the second line of your post: “The same miserable pastry sells at a local grocery chain for 60 cents each.”
So, buy your breaky/lunch/snacks for less $$ when you go grocery shopping and take them to school with you. It’s not a hard concept.
Pack a lunch.
Bring food from home and I have a little secret – it’s called cash. Why on Earth is anyone using debit on an amount under $5.00.
..I’m guessing you’re not an economics major..
You paid$ 2.80 for a puffy French pastry? What are you challenged? They don’t even cost that much at timmies where debit is free and they’re baked fresh every day, ya rube.
WTF? French Pastries in school’s in NS? What happened to the “No Cake Policy”?Kid’s can’t sell cakes or cookie’s and the like to raise money for school trip’s, etc.. because the NS Government said our kid’s are too fat,but they’re selling shit like croissants in our school’s?
Take some fruit with you or a nice home made sandwich We used to wrap up a nice fried egg sandwich on thick home made bread in newspaper and take off to school. Can’t be beat. I guess that’s the price of progress.
for fundraising purposes, they changed their policy on cakes and baked goods
I agree with wogdog, except bread wrapped in newspaper…eat much lead in your lifetime, wogdog? My gerbil died when I was a kid because I lined his cage with newspaper. He ate it. He was hard as a rock from all that ink, I guess.
The solutions to this dilemma are so apparent and have been pointed by my fellow bitchers. Get a nice Granny Smith instead of a croissant. Far more nutritious and a little bit cheaper than the school’s croissants.
I see Wog and I are on the same page, she’s starting to see the light. Except for the fried egg sandwiches, that’s just disgusting.
TJ’s in Scotia Square did a mean Westen Fried Egg sannie.
there are such things as bulk food places, you know. and then there is make it at home shit too. fucking idiot students, or whatever they are today.
O yeah well nowadays with the shrink wrap you can bypass the newspaper but I would still stick with the good old fried egg sandie.
Nothing is baked fresh anymore at Tim’s shit, did u not know this? It’s frozen freshly baked.