Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] starbucks situation
From: Arie <ariek@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:27:40 -0800
References: <310B62141943D111845E00600808E14E0149D4CD@EXCHANGE>

While were on the starbucks thread, thought I might share this:


(A bit long, but if you add the Jackie Mason voice to it, it gets
better!)

 >JACKIE MASON says:

> >

> >Starbucks is the best example of a phony status symbol that means

> >nothing, but people will still pay 10x as much for because there are

> >French words all over the place. You want coffee in a coffee shop,

> >that's 60 cents.

> >But at Starbucks, Cafe Latte: $3.50. Cafe Cremier: $4.50. Cafe
Suisse:

> >$9.50. For each French word, another four dollars.

> >

> >Why does a little cream in coffee make it worth $3.50? Go into any

> >coffee shop; they'll give you all the cream you want until you're
blue

> >in the face. Forty million people are walking around in coffee shops

> >with jars of cream: "Here's all the cream you want!" And it's still
60

> >cents.

> >

> >You know why?

> >

> >Because it's called "coffee." If it's Cafe Latte - $4.50. You want

> >cinnamon in your coffee? Ask for cinnamon in a coffee shop; they'll

> >give you all the cinnamon you want.

> >

> >Do they ask you for more money because it's cinnamon? It's the same

> >price for cinnamon in your coffee as for coffee without cinnamon - 60

> >cents, that's it.

> >But not in Starbucks. Over there, it's Cinnamonnier - $9.50.

> >

> >You want a refill in a regular coffee shop, they'll give you all the

> >refills you want until you drop dead. You can come in when you're 27

> >and keep drinking coffee until you're 98.

> >And they'll start begging you: "Here, you want more coffee, you want

> >more, you want more?"

> >Do you know that you can't get a refill at Starbucks? A refill is a

> >dollar fifty. Two refills, $4.50. Three refills, $19.50. So, for four

> >cups of coffee - $350.

> >

> >And it's burnt coffee. It's burnt coffee at Starbucks, let's be
honest

> >about it. If you get burnt coffee in a coffee shop, you call a

> >cop. You say, "It's the bottom of the pot. I don't drink from the

> >bottom of the pot. But when it's burnt at Starbucks, they say, "Oh,

> >it's a blend. It's a blend. It's a special bean from Argentina....."

> >

> >The bean is in your head.

> >

> >And there're no chairs in those Starbucks. Instead, they have these

> >high stools. You ever see these stools? You haven't been on a chair

> >that high since you were two. Seventy-three year old Jews are
climbing

> >and climbing to get to the top of the chair. And when they get to the

> >top, they can't even drink the coffee because there's 12 people
around

> >one little table, and everybody's saying, "Excuse me, excuse me,

> >excuse me, excuse me....."

> >

> >Then they can't get off the chair. Old Jews are begging Gentiles,

> >"Mister, could you get me off this?"

> >

> >Do you remember what a cafeteria was? In poor neighborhoods all over

> >this country, they went to a cafeteria because there were no waiters

> >and no service. And so poor people could save money on a tip.

> >

> >Cafeterias didn't have regular tables or chairs either. They gave

> >coffee to you in a cardboard cup. So because of that you paid less
for

> >the coffee. You got less, so you paid less.

> >

> >It's all the same as Starbucks - no chairs, no service, a cardboard

> >cup for your coffee - except in Starbucks, the less you get, the more

> >it costs. By the time they give you nothing, it's worth four times as

> >much.

> >Am I exaggerating? Did you ever try to buy a cookie in Starbucks?



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