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6. The cost of the coffee is irrelevant

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:43 PM

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A double espresso might cost 10 cents more in materials.

People are earning and spending less. All restaurants have seen a drop off in customers.

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I'll take Coffee tariffs malaise Thursday #1

Price of coffee has at least doubled. no_hypocrisy Thursday #2

Locally It's competition from 7Brew. Chipper Chat Thursday #3

A few hundred stores closing out of tens of thousands is nothing durablend Thursday #4

The cost of the coffee is irrelevant somsai Thursday #6

They overbuilt, for sure. Conjuay Friday #11

Starbucks pretty much defines "discretionary" . . . hatrack Thursday #9

People are realizing Starbucks coffee is not good Buckeyeblue Friday #12