This ruined your day lady?

[Trixie]

I shouldn't be mad at customers especially when I'm not at work, I don't work for the company and I'm in the shower. So I'm listening to the radio this morning and this lady calls into the station talking about her McDonald's coffee. I thought maybe she'd say she spilled it or something but NOOOOO. Lady was complaining because her coffee didn't ring up the usual dollar...it was one dollar and forty cents! That's a forty percent markup on coffee.

Now sure I can understand a lot of reasons of why this might piss people off but jeez to call into a radio station and complain? And it was just the tone of her voice. Like it was done to her personally. If I had the phone number of the radio station handy I might have called in and complained about her complaining.

I think this got to me more because lately I've had too many people complaining about little stuff like that. I felt bad for the poor McDonald's cashier who had to take that from the snobbish lady.

What's really funny is that my co-worker had a McDonald's coffee in her hand and I asked her if she called the radio station to complain about the price. She said "Nah, I get mine for 42 cents with the senior discount." I knew it wasn't her any way.

[MoonCat]

If 40 cents makes that big a difference to her, she shouldn't be buying coffee anyway. Make it at home, overall it will cost less.

[Estil]

My wife LOVES the way I make the coffee...and it's just regular ol' Maxwell House "special blend" (cheaper alternative). I know everyone (especially on TV) seems to love those "designer coffees" in those distinctive cups with the cardboard collar thingie but we personally just don't see the point. Like you said, if you don't like the price/quality of take-out, make your own! It's probably much cheaper and sometimes much tastier anyway.

[AccountingDrone]

Rob makes a thermos of coffee every morning for taking to work. He makes quite respectable coffee - it involves keeping the coffee maker scrupulously clean.

I really miss coffee =(

[cashierbex]

We have the Keurig. I love having the refillable cups. And we got a big thing of coffee in the freezer that we have yet to go half way down since we bought it in January.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Rob makes a thermos of coffee every morning for taking to work. He makes quite respectable coffee - it involves keeping the coffee maker scrupulously clean.

I really miss coffee =(

If I had to give up my coffee, others would suffer!

My coffeemaker is set every night before work the next morning to start brewing at 25 mins before I get up - that way all I have to do is pour a cup, grab my phone and cig case and go to the front porch.

Don't have one of the Keurig brewers yet, but as much coffee as I drink in the mornings (at least 3 cups before I leave out and I make at least one pot in the breakroom at work and that's at least one more cup) those little pods wouldn't last but maybe 2 days.

Why yes I drink a lot of coffee . . . why do you ask?

[Aethian]

*whistles softly and leaves this LINK right here....*

[Skittles88]

I drink whatevers left in the pot when I wake up (mom makes coffee at 6:30 I get up about noon) and then sometimes will have whatever is left over at work (from the hotel breaky). I don't often purchase cups of coffee, but when I do I don't cry about the price. Tim Horton's, Macdonald's, 7/11.. All have good coffee, and all reasonably priced to me at least. You pay for the convienience of it not the actual product :P (First cup pays for the whole pot)

[Trixie]

I'm not even a coffee drinker but even I can see that making coffee at home is a relatively small investment. We sell Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts besides all the regular coffees and we have the Keurig cups in lots of flavors too. I guess what just really got me was the lady's voice on the radio. She just sounded like everyone was out to get her. And I don't know what it was the last few days but I've had a few customers where I felt like asking if they called any radio stations lately to complain about prices.

[XCashier]

Lady was complaining because her coffee didn't ring up the usual dollar...it was one dollar and forty cents! That's a forty percent markup on coffee.

Prices go up. That is a constant in this world. Costs rise, so prices rise to cover them. It happens everywhere, yet customers seem to think we raised the prices just to mess with THEM because we're big meanies.

Time to face reality, SC. Wake up and smell the coffee...oh, you can't, because it's gone up a whole forty cents!

[Jay 2K Winger]

A 40% markup on something sucks, sure. But whining because that markup totals a whopping forty cents?

First World problems.

That said, I sometimes joke about price increases at places I frequent. At the wholesale club food court, when the prices went up, one of my CWs somewhat jokingly "yelled" at the food court worker, RK, while pointing a finger dramatically: "RK-- YOU'RE A RIP-OFF!" It set her to laughing, and that became one of the inside jokes among us. "The pizzas aren't ready? RK-- YOU'RE A RIP-OFF!" I eventually could set RK off laughing just by giving her a wide-eyed stare, and pointing my finger dramatically.

Recently, at my nearby "Louisiana Chicken," the prices went up when taxes increased slightly. It basically meant instead of getting 45 cents back out of my cash paid, I was getting 15 cents. I just went, "Ah, you jackin' up the prices on me? I see how it is." The cashiers-- who know me well enough that I don't even have to order anymore. I just smile, nod, and hand over my cash, and they'll often have my food already ready to go. So my comment just got a smile, a laugh, and a comment "Yeah, the taxes went up." I just shrugged and dealt with it.