Dear little Seattle Coffee shop I used to love so much:
I was terribly disappointed when I found out you have now started charging an extra fifty cents for soy milk. Not every one in this world can have dairy you know! Guess I’ll be going to that other coffee shop instead. They don’t charge extra for soy milk. Your loss!
— Soy loving coffee addict.
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.
If you can afford that overpriced Seattle swill, you can afford the extra charge. Quit yer whining, Soy Toy.
for the record, I NEVER charge for soy. anyone who does is an asshole.
ok, all of the starbucks er, i mean seattle based coffee franchises in the downtown area happen to be no further than a two or three block walk to one of the two Sams machitatto ( spelling?) One is in the Petes frootique mall and the other in barigton place shops mall next to boston pizza )
its $1.70 for a large coffee and is easily the best coffee I have ever tasted, and i am an admited grade A coffee snob. Also its a small locally owned business and you don’t have to mingle with the first year university crowd who think they are gods gift to this city becuase they can sit there and write short stories on their shinny Mac Books for three hours on end.
I don’t get why Soy milk costs just as much as regular milk in the stores. I thought there would be a lot less processing involved. With soy milk you’re just growing the soy beans and turning them into soy milk. Whereas with cows you have to grow the grains, feed and care for them, milk them, feed them again etc. and eventually slaughter them. Yet it cost the same??? Now they want to charge extra for soy milk at a coffee shop. I don’t get it.
As the comedian Lewis Black said”soy isn’t a milk, it’s a juice”
simply put, they charge the same because they can. supply and demand do not seem to be the drivers of price they once used to be. unless of course the law of S+D dictates a price increase. manufacturers trot out a litany of excuses to raise the price and conversely to keep the price high when market forces would suggest decreases.
companies charge what they think the market can bear. which is usually higher than most of us would like.
They’ve always charged for soy, this isn’t new. What you may not know is that if you get a gift card from there and register it online, they do not charge for the soy. Of course, this is only at those freestanding starbucks stores, not ones inside other business’s.
50 cents for soy? fuuuck.
Mcdonald’s downtown location is now charging 25 cents for mcchicken sauce. Fuckers. All I wanted was some fucking mayo on my 1/4 lb-er 🙁
I agree with TTFN. If you can afford to shell out 3 bucks for your bleedin’ coffee, you can afford 50 cents for a product that they are probably taking a loss on on (a loss meaning that they throw more of the stuff out than they actually use). It’s 50 cents for fuck sakes. Here’s a lesson: take a Thermos of hot coffee with you to work in the morning. Works for me! Saves me a pile of money too, and I get coffee I know I like.
you mean im gonna have to pay a quarter if i want to mcchicken sauce my fries…this is not good. not good at all.
what’s even worse, is that it’s not just mcchicken sauce….
it’s anything. Syrup I can see…. but 25 cents for a ketchup packet? PER ketchup packet? are you off your rocker?!?!?!?!
I know McD’s barely puts food in their food but c’mon…..
This was the only location I’ve ever heard of this happening at, so maybe it’s just this location? Even the chick at the counter looked like she had a hard time telling me she’d have to charge me. I already paid enough for my grade f quarter pounder, I’m not paying 25 cents more for some fucking mayo. Next time I’m just going to ask for some ON the burger…see what they say then. My sister had an idea a while back to bring in a cheese slice and ask them to put it on so she didn’t have to pay for cheese on her hamburger. I might start doing that with mayo and see what they say “uh, yah I’d like a quarter pounder with cheese please, and uh, *hands container of mayo to cashier* put some of this on, thx”. heh
Fucking mcdicks. this is why I go there like maybe once every couple of months.
i think if you ask for them to put mayo on the burger. i had a friend who liked mayo on his 1/4 pounder and unless theyve changed this as well, they added mayo for free.
I work at a local coffee shop. Generally in the mornings we deal with “regulars.” One of our customers has to have soy milk, so she buys a little container of it each week and we just set in out back in the fridge, done deal.