Starbucks Round Two!

Welcome back all....they have done it again! Starbucks has gone and pissed me off. Has your friend and humble narrator made a return trip to the den of iniquity? Nay nay. But somehow, they have managed to enter my line of sight...and once again set me off.

Everyone knows that Starbucks coffee costs about four dollars a cup. This number could be much higher, depending on your menu choice. The cost of a cup of coffee at your local 7-Eleven is approximately 1.25. Am I back to discuss how wrong it is for Starbucks to charge such outrageous fees for caffeine? Nay nay...I am here to discuss how wrong it is for Starbucks to charge you 5 bucks for a cup of coffee...and THEN have the nerve to ask you to donate "at least five dollars" to the "Jobs for USA" program that they are sponsoring.

Starbucks is a multi-billion dollar company that sells....coffee. If their crafty use of Italian bartenders and foreign language to confuse the average American isn't bad enough, now they want you to give them "extra" money. I am not saying that this "Jobs for USA" program isn't a good idea, but who wants to walk out of Starbucks with a cup of coffee and ten less dollars in their pocket? This is not the place that should be asking people for more money. How about you take some of the money that you make off of that one dollar cup of coffee that you are overcharging by 400% and give THAT to your program? How about selling coffee for your normal price, and giving some of your profit away?

I hear that they are offering up 5 million dollars to start this program. According to blah blah blah website, (it is obviously not important) Starbucks sells 8,200,000 cups of coffee each day. That is approximately 32 million dollars PER DAY! And you are telling me that to make the people of the world feel better, you are donating 5 million dollars? That would be the same as me donating a penny and trying to get people to donate 5 dollars every time they walked through the door at my store.

Quit trying to make yourself look good Starbucks. Stop trying to get even MORE people into your bars to throw their money away as you want them to. If I want coffee I will go to 7-Eleven, if I want pastries I will go to Dunkin Donuts, if I want some douche bag CD I will go to WalMart, if I want to donate money to a good cause, I will do that too. I don't need you trying to pull at patriotic heart strings to essentially sell more overpriced coffee! Until next time...Stay Salty.

-Salty Dog