Smoothie at the Smoothie Place Near My House
$8.75. Any smoothie, all smoothies. This is too much. Smoothies should be $5. Flat. That’s it. Maybe more with some wheatgrass protein powder mumbojumbo, but that’s on you. I love to throw away money. Love it! LOVE. IT. But $8.75 for a smoothies is absurd. (Unless this is what smoothies cost now, and I’m out out of my damn mind?)
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There’s some economic mantra along the lines of “the market willpay whatever the market will bear,” but as a cheap-ass bastard, that is way to much for a smoothie.
“Did you just order an $8.75 smoothie? That’s a smoothie. . . that’s fruit and water. That’s $8.75? You don’t put bourbon in it or nothin’?”
I won’t even pay $5 for a smoothie. But I’m a cheap bastard, not a hippie.
(Note: smoothies are for hippies.)
I love smoothies, but I would never pay $8.75 for a smoothie. $5, maybe. They are so easy to make though, I’d feel bad about it.
I paid nearly $11 for two bubble teas over the weekend and I’m still pretty mad about it.
But $8.75 for a smoothie? I don’t know, I’d walk out. Because I’ve been making smoothies AT HOME and bitching about the cost and I know my homemade smoothies aren’t $8.75.
$8.75 for a smoothie is too much. What type of smoothie is this? Is a luxury organic local sourced smoothie? Does it come in a gold plated cup?
Working for a Big Time Beverage Company, the cost of the smoothie is probably 1)milk (if any), 2) shipping the fresh fruit to NYC and 2) labor. It costs a lot to pay a person to make your smoothie.
But $9 is way out of the range of what most people are willing to pay.