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It is consumer snobbishness. Starbucks do you use a better class of beans, but the average drinker can't tell the difference. Those that can tell the difference are not normally going to buy Starbucks to begin with. Similar results where found with beer tests. There they used a price incentive. Budget beers were sold at premium prices and visa versa. Consumers asked to drink the beers universally graded them according to price. The upshot was most people could not tell the difference in quality, but assumed price referenced quality.

Starbucks is ridiculously overpriced.

People dress up to go to Wal-Mart?

It's Consumer Reports.

They're shit.

Anyways, I don't go to Starbucks for coffee, I go there for lattes/espressos/shit I can't make at home.

Starbucks is where all the hipster women are. Since I dont drink coffee I would go for SB since thats where I pick de wimmen up at.

Well I certainly don't consider myself a coffee snob but I do drink only black so I think I would be able to tell the difference between something that tastes good and something that doesn't. For example, I'm not a fan of Folgers.

Anyways, I'd like to see more taste tests done to see if this is consistent.

Every time I've had Starbucks it tastes burned.