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Gorilla's coffee beans are 33% more expensive - Page 2 — Brooklynian

Gorilla's coffee beans are 33% more expensive

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  • old time brooklyn
    old time brooklyn


    As well as American politics.

  • MOD
    MOD


    %) wholly crap there is math going on here! (----->runs away)

  • piano
    piano


    Yep, WalMart is the big success it is today because I don't boycott all chain stores.


    Do you even know what the word ignorant means? I imagine if you did you'd actually point out one thing about what I wrote that was ignorant. But as Booklaw said, you didn't.


    Anyway, it's your lucky day because I'm going to show you the proper way to use that word. Here's an example: Ignorant is someone who thinks mom and pop stores alone can adequately supply the needs of a nation exceeding 300 million people.


    You see the difference? I actually explain why what you wrote is ignorant. You didn't do that. Why is that? Are you just mad about something in your life and you want to lash out at strangers? Hmmmm sounds familiar.


    Wow. With such "enlightened" minds out there, no wonder this country elected Bush twice.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31


    Mamacita wrote:


    %) wholly crap there is math going on here! (----->runs away)


    Yes, I'm glad I don't drink coffee. From this thread, it looks very difficult, expensive and makes people get all excited and jittery.

  • old time brooklyn
    old time brooklyn


    If you live in this community and want an item and it's available at Wal-Mart and a local small business, you should patron the small business even if the price is higher. Small businesses, for the most part, put that money back into your community. Wal-Mart does not. And the price is higher for many reasons including the labor that's used and the proximity with which you can buy it.


    I don't think anyone should support a lousy business model. I agree with you there. Lucas Foods is a recent example of a business that was badly thought out and problematic and you're right, didn't deserve to be in business. But you can't pretend that even the best small businesses and Wal-Mart are on the same footing, that supporting either of them with your money has the same outcome. The businesses in Park Slope don't have national lobbies to support their self-serving goals. They don't promote a lifestyle of "who gives a shit what I'm eating/drinking/wearing/watching as long as it's cheap."


    Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Budweiser, JPMorganChase etc, are wonderfully successful businesses. That doesn't mean that they're good for this country.

  • old time brooklyn
    old time brooklyn


    Small business also doesn't equate to mom and pop all the time. I don't understand why we need Wal-Mart to cope with our population. 80% of this country lives near cities and suburban areas. You don't need Wal-Mart. The reason we have Wal-Mart is because we want/need to buy everything cheaply.

  • piano
    piano


    You still fail to explain how anything I wrote was ignorant.


    What you're doing is the old typical and tiresome straw man routine. You fabricate a statement and try to make it sound like it's coming from someone else for the sole purpose of being able to knock it down and thus supporting your own thesis.


    Let me demonstrate:


    You wrote "you can't pretend that even the best small businesses and Wal-Mart are on the same footing."


    When did I write that they were? Never.


    You also said I can't pretend "supporting either of them with your money has the same outcome.


    When did I write that they do? Never.


    You wrote: "That doesn't mean that they're good for this country."


    When did I write that they are? Never.


    All I wrote was ... wait why do I have to tell you this? Why can't you read properly? I'm tired of having to do this for people. If you're literate, you know what I wrote.


    Hey if you want to run the straw man routine straight out of the Karl Rove playbook, knock yourself out, go nuts, have a ball. Just leave me out of it.

  • old time brooklyn
    old time brooklyn


    What you wrote was opaque then. So explain what you meant. You ran into a thread on a local community board and said the following:


    "We shouldn't have to prop up someone's failed business model. There's way too much deference and reverence for the small business in this country. And nobody gets more handouts and subsidies from the federal goverment. The way I see it, if you can't hack it and need me to subsidize your enterprise, you got no business being in business.


    ...there's nothing wrong with chain stores. It just happens to be very trendy to disparage them. Besides, most people seem to forget that pretty much all chains begin as local businesses."


    Aside from saying that some chains began as local businesses, there's not much explanation for such an inflamed post. It seems you're misinformed or just trying to be a contrarian.

  • juan carlos sauceda
    juan carlos sauceda


    Going back to the coffee, and sorry if I offend Old Time Brooklyn but I bought 3 different coffee flavors at Trader Joe's (I love Trader Joe's) Dark French Roast, Bay Blend and Kawai. I am enjoying the dark french and it is pretty good.


    They have good selection and fare prices, not to mention those Spanish olives filled with garlic.


    And I think everyone working there lives locally so they spend their money locally, rent food, clothing, services ........

  • piano
    piano


    Oh, so it's opaque now, not ignorant. Easy mistake - it's the same thing as ignorant, except the words are spelled and pronounced differently and have completely different meanings. Perhaps you should understand the words before you type them, I bet people will find you more comprehensible.


    Look, I'm not going to bother to explain what I wrote because it's in plain English, and if you can’t understand that's your problem. As difficult as this may be for you to fathom, I have absolutely no need for you to understand anything at all.


    Besides, it’s obvious you just want to lash out a strangers as is the MO of more than a few sad sacks on this site. Heck, we could be talking about anything here … I don’t know, um, say bagels, and you’d still come back with post after post ad nauseum until everyone agrees with you (not going to happen) or everyone gets sick of this crap and leaves the thread, or a Mod has to swoop in and lock the thread because it has degenerated in yet another shit-tossing contest. So I’m done here with you. Feel free to carry on with this by yourself, I have no doubt you will.

  • old time brooklyn
    old time brooklyn


    Waaaah.

  • whyfi
    whyfi


    Decaf - y'all should switch to decaf...

  • piano
    piano


    Ah, and the inevitable "voice of reason."


    What on Earth would we do without our formulas?

  • whyfi
    whyfi


    I strongly prefer "formulae," to "formulas."


    You would have had me on your side. ;)

  • piano
    piano


    How about formuli?

  • whyfi
    whyfi


    No. That will not do.

  • piano
    piano


    By the way, the Food Coop coffee runs about 8 or 9 a pound depending on which kind you buy. The most expensive coffee is $10.75 a pound.


    I'm kind of surprised no one mentioned Ozzies. Personally I don't like their coffee at all, but someone must because they're still in business.

  • architecture biscuit
    architecture biscuit


    Mougar wrote:


    Architecture Biscuit wrote:


    quiddity wrote:


    Let's do the math. $11/16 oz. = $0.60 per ounce. Now the coffee bags are $11 for 12 oz. That's $0.92 per ounce, or a 33% increase in price per ounce. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty steep increase with no notice.


    That is a pretty steep increase, but your math is wrong. Going from $0.60 per ounce to $0.92 per ounce is not a 33% increase (that would be $0.60 to $0.80) but rather a 53% increase!!! Yowzers.


    I don't generally get my coffee from Gorilla, but I do, from time to time, get coffee from places that brew Gorilla beans. I wonder how this will effect them.



    ($11 / 12oz - $11 / 16oz) / ($11 / 16oz) = 33%


    Biscuit is correct that $0.60 -> $0.92 is a 53% increase, but $11/16oz = $0.69 / oz


    You're right. I should have checked all the math.

  • slopehead
    slopehead


    Pound for pound you can't really beat the prices and quality of the PSFC coffee selection. I think Costco is a close second, but you're looking at a very limited choices there. If you really went to save money, drink tea.

  • MOD
    MOD


    The Daily What posted:


    http://thedailywh.at/post/1619139478/coffee-porn-of-the-day-the-folks-at-the-pulp

  • nitcomb
    nitcomb

    Coffee prices are also at an all-time high:

    http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/10/markets/coffee_prices/index.htm

    something to consider.

    just noticed that union market is carrying those tiny bags of Gorilla for 12.99. They also have Stumptown which seems to be all-the-rage for 50 cents less. Curious to see how it sells.

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