Yes, if I bought a 12oz.So, like me, you also can't get a cup of coffee from Starbucks with $3 USD cash in your pocket.
Yes, if I bought a 12oz.So, like me, you also can't get a cup of coffee from Starbucks with $3 USD cash in your pocket.
Please post the receipt for a black cup of coffee that you purchased at Starbucks for $3 USD or less out the door. My bounty for this is now raised up to $125 USD donated to BITOG in your name, receipt needs to be dated today and posted today.Yes, if I bought a 12oz.
If I need to go back and buy a 12oz I will.Please post the receipt for a black cup of coffee that you purchased at Starbucks for $3 USD or less out the door. My bounty for this is now raised up to $125 USD donated to BITOG in your name, receipt needs to be dated today and posted today.
Some yes, but not in ChicagolandIt’s $3 for black coffee at all the ones I’ve been to.
Welcome to weirdos club, there are getting to be more and more of usI don’t drink anything else there because I’m one of those weirdos that avoid sugar at all cost
I live in a not so crazy area price wise. I'm in Chicago as much as a couple times a week, but in my work travels I don't have a close Starbucks in my usual path. It ends up being Dunkin since it's in walking distance to my hotel.Some yes, but not in Chicagoland
Welcome to weirdos club, there are getting to be more and more of us
I guess they don't do receipts now. Didn't even offer me one. A Tall was $2.90 which still seems insane to me. I can definitely see if you're in an area that is a bit higher priced. It was a town of only 25k people if that shapes it. I still remember a Venti being like $2.30 at one point. I'm guessing that was 10 years ago with my memory.Please post the receipt for a black cup of coffee that you purchased at Starbucks for $3 USD or less out the door. My bounty for this is now raised up to $125 USD donated to BITOG in your name, receipt needs to be dated today and posted today.
25k people? pretty big town, sounds like a city to me.I guess they don't do receipts now. Didn't even offer me one. A Tall was $2.90 which still seems insane to me. I can definitely see if you're in an area that is a bit higher priced. It was a town of only 25k people if that shapes it. I still remember a Venti being like $2.30 at one point. I'm guessing that was 10 years ago with my memory.
I mean considering where some live that's small. I live in a town of 16k people and grew up in one of 9k people. I've lived in areas with 6M, but I'm really not about the big city life.25k people? pretty big town, sounds like a city to me.
Pretty sure 10 years ago I was paying $1.95 for Starbucks. Been a long time though. I might be remembering pre great recession, we scaled back a lot of our spending around that time. But I thought I was still buying at that price even after that. Getting too old to remember those details (used to be one we'd stop at, next to a Quizno's, they had this sub that we really liked, now that was expensive--but boy was it good).
Yep that's the sandwich! we used to stop for that on the way home from my inlaws.I mean considering where some live that's small. I live in a town of 16k people and grew up in one of 9k people. I've lived in areas with 6M, but I'm really not about the big city life.
I haven't heard the name Quiznos in a long time. I used to be hooked on the chicken carbonara. I haven't been in one in at least 8 years. I'm sure that's a $15 meal these days.
So I asked my kid what happens at *$ when someone orders a plain black, and that coffee deliberately gets queued like all the expensive ones. They don't want the yuppies ordering the mocha lattes to feel like second class citizens, to be not waited on (bypassed) by the simpleton who wants a normal coffee. So it really is all about the experience.
We have teachers who make like 60-80k in a place where the cost of living is about 90k a year. I don't think they are overpaid and you can always find older boomers who retired with massive pension but younger ones enter with low pay in any field.Huh? Teachers on the west coast retire with 6K$ pensions. Elementary. Teachers are not underpaid
You can always retire outside of a high cost of living area, or nations. My retirement plan would probably be in a poor nation that I can live like a king even with US poverty level income.So I asked my kid what happens at *$ when someone orders a plain black, and that coffee deliberately gets queued like all the expensive ones. They don't want the yuppies ordering the mocha lattes to feel like second class citizens, to be not waited on (bypassed) by the simpleton who wants a normal coffee. So it really is all about the experience.
As far as retirement accounts, you don't have to save 10x or 5x or any arbitrary number. You just have to save more than someone less fortunate, with whom you'll be competing for resources over. There'll be fewer nurses, home health aides, landscapers, mechanics etc due to demographic changes. Set yourself up so you'll get them, someone else won't, and you're good enough! Notably, of course, governments can't do this for you, as they'll have to distribute any extra payments "fairly and equally."
My wife is a retired elementary schoolteacher from California. You would need to teach 30plus years to get that kind of pension-just to be clear.Huh? Teachers on the west coast retire with 6K$ pensions. Elementary. Teachers are not underpaid
There's always some problem with either extreme. We aren't that bad compare to the Greek / Roman days when the univeristies have to specifically say "respect your professors, don't spit at them".IMO the US pendulum is too far in the other direction. We used to have "noble professions"-- cops, mailmen, teachers. They were paid a middle wage and could afford to live in the communities they served. Now everyone's trying to squeeze the last nickel out of these guys and there are thousands of unfilled positions.
Watch some British TV... they're culturally proud of their institutions. Watch Seinfeld and we've got Newman.
My wife is a retired elementary schoolteacher from California. You would need to teach 30plus years to get that kind of pension-just to be clear.
She doesn't get anywhere near that amount.
My SIL, retired in SoCal. 25 years. She shared a teaching position, lower grades. Over $6K retirement.My wife is a retired elementary schoolteacher from California. You would need to teach 30plus years to get that kind of pension-just to be clear.
She doesn't get anywhere near that amount.
35 years at my employer and I get pension over $5K.
Sometimes it pays to be a lifer at a big company and become institutionalized…..