how much does coffee cost? (charge, houses, get, versus)

[user_id]

I've never really bothered to calculate what I spend on coffee and alcohol. Except for special situations I don't drink coffee out, just brewed at home or work. I maybe spend around $20/month on it. Alcohol.....I'm not even sure. I'll usually buy 10~15 bottles of wine at a time when some store is having a good sale.

[mathjak107]

we love the k-kup system. it runs about a dollar a day for 2 of us....
yes its more than when we were paying buying it by the pound but the coffee tastes so much better from the keurig than we got from all the coffee makers we owned through the decades..

i hate the taste of alcohol so we spend next to nothing on wine and beer. our bill for drug use is quite high though ha ha ha ha

[Lacerta]

I find it interesting that the low percentage of people here who say they actually buy coffee at Starbucks daily is so inconsistant with the lines of cars I see at Starbucks and Moxie Java, etc every day.

I also never drink coffee or alcohol, and saving money is one of the reasons, even if it isn't the biggest reason.

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by Lacerta

I find it interesting that the low percentage of people here who say they actually buy coffee at Starbucks daily is so inconsistant with the lines of cars I see at Starbucks and Moxie Java, etc every day.

I also never drink coffee or alcohol, and saving money is one of the reasons, even if it isn't the biggest reason.

Makes perfect sense. People that are frugal with money wouldn't go to Starbucks daily. Or if they did -- they would find ways to make it fit, as in discount cards, or points or making people give them gift cards to it.

We're not the target market.

[user_id]

A line at Starbucks doesn't tell you much about how often people are going....

[bradykp]

Originally Posted by Tallysmom

Makes perfect sense. People that are frugal with money wouldn't go to Starbucks daily. Or if they did -- they would find ways to make it fit, as in discount cards, or points or making people give them gift cards to it.

We're not the target market.

yeah...certainly not the crowd that would be frequenting starbucks....but, if people did, i'd imagine they'd take every method they could to get it cheaper (they do have rewards programs, points, coupons, etc).

i just find their coffee disgusting, let alone overpriced. lol

[sonarrat]

I have no idea, actually. I only drink coffee when I'm getting it for free at work or in a hotel, and I get decaf. Otherwise I'll drink juice or water.

[CaptainNJ]

Originally Posted by user_id

A line at Starbucks doesn't tell you much about how often people are going....

and i dared to question your intelligence. thank you so much for this pearl of wisdom.

[Lacerta]

Originally Posted by user_id

A line at Starbucks doesn't tell you much about how often people are going....

You are correct, remove the word "daily" from my previous post, and I stand by it though. If a Starbucks location sells 500 cups of something per day, every day for a month, it doesn't really matter whether it was to the same 500 people 30 times or to 15k different people, it was still 15k cups. But if you went only by the posts here, Starbucks should be out of business because everyone only drinks coffee at home.

[user_id]

Originally Posted by Lacerta

But if you went only by the posts here, Starbucks should be out of business because everyone only drinks coffee at home.

I'm not sure I follow, only a handful of people have posted here and some of them have stated that they buy coffee out often and others that they buy it here and there.

I usually drink coffee in the morning before I even really get out of bed so getting it at Starbucks isn't even an option. I will buy it out here and there, let's say 1-2 times a month (not necessarily at Starbucks though). But if you have a community with say 20,000 adults and they each drink it 1-2 times a month that is on average 600~1,200 coffees a day, enough to keep a few coffee places in business.