Isn’t it annoying to find something being sold for an extravagant price when it can be purchased for way less? Don’t know what I’m talking about? Here’s an example: think about samosas in airports and how much you have to pay for it? Maybe you’ll get it for Rs 10 in a roadside food joint, but at the airport it costs Rs 150 to Rs 200 or even more!
Similarly, Starbucks is selling filter coffee for a whopping Rs 290, exclusive of taxes. A picture of a Starbucks standee notifying coffee lovers about the price was shared on Twitter by a user named Adithya Venkatesan.
In the standee, we see an ‘ajji’ (‘grandmother in Kannada) approving of the filter coffee to a guy named Shivvu and Adithya writes, “Dear Starbucks, there’s literally no ajji in god’s green earth who’ll approve a filter coffee for Rs 290 + taxes.”
Dear Strbucks, there's literally no ajji in god's green earth who'll approve a filter coffee for 290rs +taxes. 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/JtPIhakJdq
— Adithya Venkatesan (@adadithya) January 23, 2023
In Bangalore, if you go to any local food joint, you’ll find filter coffee being sold for Rs 15 a cup. For the same price as Starbucks, you’ll be able to buy 500 grams of filter coffee which you can make at home every day for one whole month. So people online called out the ridiculousness of the pricing on Twitter. Have a look:
Boss i know a person who sells 100gms of filter coffee for 300 🙏
— Varun #PlsMaskup #Vaccinatedcompletly (@varun_blues) January 23, 2023
Is this for a month worth of supply or just one coffee?! 😂
— Vinayak Hiremath (@hiremathji) January 23, 2023
Why would anyone buy filter coffee from Starbucks!! Missing the whole authentic element.
— Ritika Patel (@Ritika__Patel) January 23, 2023
This ajji is from SOBO part of the 400mn+ middle class identified by Starbucks India :)-
— Sanjiva Jha (@sanjivajha) January 23, 2023
Dai Shivvu, you can get 2 of our filter coffee decoction bottles for the same Rs. 290, and make TWENTY cups of coffee with that. I say, just take our decoction to Starbucks, order hot milk from them, and mix it off. Ajji will definitely approve!
— GD Prasad (@gd_vsmani) January 23, 2023
This guy gives one of the best filter coffee or tea you will ever have at ₹15 and ₹10 respectively. 😅 Taxes included. Ajji approved. pic.twitter.com/6n1qEUnPrx
— Siddharth’s Echelon (@SiddharthKG7) January 23, 2023
Especially when almost street-end Dharshan’s give heavenly filter coffee at 10-12₹!
— * (@SriVastav0402) January 23, 2023
I get very authentic and strong filter coffee near my office for ₹20.
My ajji still thinks that ₹20 is too expensive when I can have at her house for free.
She’d go berserk if she hears it cost ₹290+ tax at Starbucks and remove me from her will.
— Bran and 99 others (@TheLonStRanger) January 23, 2023
A hot cup of Bru at home, costing not more than Rs.10 would taste equally good, if not better 😀
— Shyam G Iyer (@shyamiyer99) January 23, 2023
Kya din aa gaye hai!