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Re:Medium plans to launch a consumer subscription product th... by swalsh on Monday February 13, 2017 @07:31AM (#13634776)
"Starbucks also has no free alternatives."

Actually, every day (when I worked in an office) I had to make the decision of "Do I want the kind of boring office coffee, which is free, or the slightly more exciting Starbucks coffeee"

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Re:Medium plans to launch a consumer subscription product th... by boozywoozy on Monday February 13, 2017 @10:28AM (#13635924)
If you were a hipster in San Francisco, you'd make a decision of whether to have the kind of boring Starbucks coffee, or the slightly more exciting single-origin organically-grown free trade pourover coffee that your non bearded, tattooed barista will take 13 minutes to make.
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