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Re:Medium, Please by ookblah on Sunday January 09, 2011 @04:39PM (#2086499)

ok i feel like a dummy but this doesn't make sense to me.

they just relabeled the old large -> new medium but kept the price points the same? so if a medium 12 oz. was $2, and a large 16 oz. was $4, the "medium" $2 cup is now 16 oz. doesn't that mean they are now giving out more coffee for the same price? how does that help their bottom line...

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Re:Medium, Please by SoftwareMaven on Sunday January 09, 2011 @06:16PM (#2086761)

The price of 12 or 16 ounces of coffee didn't change, just the label on the cup changed. Making up all numbers here, it is like this:

  Ounces   Size Before    Size After    Cost
  12oz     Small          Extra Small   $2
  16oz     Medium         Small         $3
  24oz     Large          Medium        $4
  128oz    N/A            Large         $15

Notice cost/ounce for a particular number of ounces never changes.

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