Starbucks to Raise Coffee Drinks Prices

[NVMojo]

SEATTLE (AP) -

Starbucks Got three bucks? That and a nickel will buy you a coffee drink at Starbucks.

Starbucks Corp. said Thursday that it planned to raise prices of its lattes, cappuccinos, drip coffee and other drinks by 5 cents, or an average of 1.9 percent.

The increase, which goes into effect Oct. 3 at all company-operated stores in the U.S. and Canada, will mark the first time the company has boosted drink prices in two years.

Starbucks also is increasing the price of its coffee beans by about 50 cents per pound, or an average of 3.9 percent. That's the first price increase for whole beans in nine years, spokeswoman Valerie O'Neil said.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/invest-corp/2006/sep/22/092204618.html

[tuvor]

1. What's the markup on coffee?

Three bucks for a cuppa at Starbucks?! Even if it were fair trade coffee, no way it should cost that much.

[jdadd]

2. Not from me!!

I don't care for Starbucks "burnt bean" tasting coffee...:thumbsdown:

[tuvor]

4. Or, as a friend of mine calls it...

"Charred pucks."

Even their "light" roast tastes like turpentine.

[CelticWinter]

3. No starbucks here

and the few times I have had it its not something I would go out of my way to get. I perfer Green Mountain Coffee.

[Karenca]

5. Starbucks is the most foul tasting shit.

[tridim]

6. 3 pounds of organic coffee beans at Costco.. $8.00

Put that in a thermal mug and you're all set. It tastes sooooo much better than Starbuck$.

[msongs]

7. you are paying for the image not the product if you go there .. same as

the mob paying $2 a can for crap like red bull. One can a day = $730 A YEAR!

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[bperci108]

8. Support the Starbucks Workers' Union fight to organize

Please support the baristas who are fighting to organize local Starbucks around the country:

http://www.starbucksunion.org/

http://www.iww.org/en/node/2858

http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/1049


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