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Major plus for your website to feature a Nexus instead of an iPhone. It instantly gives me a comfortable feeling of professionalism. I like the idea of the app and its well-executed. However, even if I would get a 100% discount I wouldn't take it. Starbucks equals common denominator hyped hipster coffee charged for at premium rates due to its viral-branding and A-locations. I would rather drink water from a sprinkler…
Major plus for your website to feature a Nexus instead of an iPhone. It instantly gives me a comfortable feeling of professionalism. I like the idea of the app and its well-executed. However, even if I would get a 100% discount I wouldn't take it. Starbucks equals common denominator hyped hipster coffee charged for at premium rates due to its viral-branding and A-locations. I would rather drink water from a sprinkler…
Why does having a Nexus in the picture = professionalism?
There's a Starbucks Gold Card (earned from 30 drinks in 12 months). https://www.starbucks.com/card/rewards This gives you every 13th drink free (1 per 12 = 8.3% discount). I think this just crowdsources 1 mega gold card. I guess if you average out the drink prices... I could use the free drink on the $6 soy latte and use the $2 tall coffee as 1 of 12 drinks to earn that. So I could squeeze out some extra % points tha…
There's a Starbucks Gold Card (earned from 30 drinks in 12 months). https://www.starbucks.com/card/rewards This gives you every 13th drink free (1 per 12 = 8.3% discount). I think this just crowdsources 1 mega gold card. I guess if you average out the drink prices... I could use the free drink on the $6 soy latte and use the $2 tall coffee as 1 of 12 drinks to earn that. So I could squeeze out some extra % points tha…
They do fluctuate based on location, most (if not all) quick serve restaurants fluctuate their price based on location.
There's a Starbucks Gold Card (earned from 30 drinks in 12 months). https://www.starbucks.com/card/rewards This gives you every 13th drink free (1 per 12 = 8.3% discount). I think this just crowdsources 1 mega gold card. I guess if you average out the drink prices... I could use the free drink on the $6 soy latte and use the $2 tall coffee as 1 of 12 drinks to earn that. So I could squeeze out some extra % points tha…
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I'm not an economist, but economists are not good at speculating either, looking at the results: As a a team, economists failed to preview every single financial crisis. Only after the shit hits the fan, media goes back to the few who were able to predict the crisis. There are always solitary birds singing out of the chorus. The chorus never get it right though. To your statements now: 1) That's true, but doesn't mea…
Your point #2 doesn't really work. You can manipulate the market in the short-term but you can't control the inherent value of the currency. Fiat currencies issued by governments can do that because they can literally just print or destroy money through monetary policy. And I'm talking purely about bitcoin. I'm a lot more bullish on the future of crypto-currencies in general, but bitcoin has a lot of flaws that are p…
There's a Starbucks Gold Card (earned from 30 drinks in 12 months). https://www.starbucks.com/card/rewards This gives you every 13th drink free (1 per 12 = 8.3% discount). I think this just crowdsources 1 mega gold card. I guess if you average out the drink prices... I could use the free drink on the $6 soy latte and use the $2 tall coffee as 1 of 12 drinks to earn that. So I could squeeze out some extra % points tha…
When I use my card to buy drinks and I'm buying more than one, the helpful starbucks employees suggest I make multiple transactions to get more stars.
US only I assume?
I'd like to hear a real economist's take on this but from my personal opinion Bitcoin will never take off as a transactional currency because of it's inherently limited nature, and here's the reasons contributing to it: 1. There's a finite amount of them that can ever be mined 2. There's no central governing body control the rate of inflation/deflation through monetary policy. By definition this creates a deflationar…
I'm not an economist, but economists are not good at speculating either, looking at the results: As a a team, economists failed to preview every single financial crisis. Only after the shit hits the fan, media goes back to the few who were able to predict the crisis. There are always solitary birds singing out of the chorus. The chorus never get it right though. To your statements now: 1) That's true, but doesn't mea…
That's a bit of a fallacy, because economists are not just passive observers of the economy. If there is broad agreement that something is wrong, they can recommend policies to fix or mitigate it.
It's like saying your system administrators failed to warn about every single unscheduled service outage. It's probably true, but that says nothing about how many outages they anticipated and prevented.