Later today I will buy Starbucks shares

At least $40,000 worth. 

I keep expecting the planet to wake up one day to the idea that paying £3 plus for a coffee you could make at home for 20p for a very modest outlay on a simple coffee machine to drink in an international branded identikit coffee shop without as much soul as a mcdonalds is a bit stupid.

Guy's post above, as usual is nonsense. 

 

On beans cost alone, assuming you're using coffee shop (freshly roasted beans, and not stale supermarket beans) the cost is roughly £13 for 300g. On a 20g shot basis, that's about 86p a shot for the espresso. Milk is a few pence more. So it's about £1 per coffee at home, before you do the "modest outlay" or even the energy costs of heating a coffee  machine for 25 mins for a single cup.  The coffee at Starbucks may be mediocre but their machines and grinders are not. Guy is comparing a naice exec class car with a reliant robin.