The price of a Costa Coffee mince pie (and other eyebrow raising prices) !

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Because I am fat and don't have a sweet tooth I never have anything to eat in a coffee shop so perhaps I'm very behind the times - but aibu to be shocked that they wanted £2.20 for a mince pie in Costa yesterday? They were flogging them at the till. I'm afraid I snorted at the idea I might want to pay that for 1 mince pie (and yes I know I'm sounding like my mother).

Any prices/charges that have made you do a double-take recently?

Literally anything a motorway services.

Does everything in every shop count?! From food shopping to goods... everything is stealthily increasing but my wages are not!
I must sound like my parents everyday when commenting on prices in shops

Foot Asylum clothes
Base clothes
Foot Locker clothes
JD Sports

Yes I’ve just been clothes shopping with teen DS

And 50p for one Lindt ball! 😬

Anywhere that sells a bog standard white t shirt for £50.

£2.60 for coffee from a vending machine. The Costa ones that are in petrol stations and Co-ops. Why should it be the same price as when a barista makes it?

M&S food recently. I shop wherever I am and I don’t use one store in particular. M&S is the nearest and due to DH being very unwell I’ve just been popping in for bits quickly. Eye wateringly expensive.

2 coffees and 2 chocolate caramel slice thingies ( very small, pre packed and awful) came to over €18 in M&S the other day.
Never again

Known as 'Costa bloody fortune' in this house.

Me too, not going to bother and their fresh bread is allowed to be in sake for 3 days apparently. I also dislike the way people who work and commute have to pay inflated prices at stations and services for the convenience. Piss taking

on sale obviously

People are idiots. Amazes me how much people spend every day on take out coffees. I'll go to a cafe for tea and a scone if I'm out all day shopping otherwise fuck that shit. At work there's a kettle!

That is extortionate for one mince pie! Greggs ones are about 50p each.

I cant get over the number of people buying the 50p lindt balls.

I never drink tea out Shatner because why pay £2 for a fucking teabag and hot water?

But somehow I’ll fork out £2.50 once a fortnight for a good cortado. Yes I can make one at home - I don’t mind paying though as it takes a good 5 minutes to make it properly at home, plus washing up of coffee grinder, stove top pot, milk frother. But somehow £2 for swooshing a teabag round some boiling water to me is a total rip off.

@Taffeta When you don't drink coffee, your choice is limited. If I'm only out for a couple of hours I'll grab a diet Coke and drink while wandering around. I'll only sit and pay for a tea and scone as my lunch if out all day

Local coffee place charges £2.30 for a croissant. Sainsbury's next door offers 2 for £1. Problem is, I then eat 2 croissants.

Recreate the chain coffee store experience in your own house. Make a coffee with fresh grounds by any number of methods. Stand around for 2-3 minutes. Loudly mispronounce your name, then set fire to a fiver.

Dave Gorman did an excellent skit on how the explosion of latte culture forced tea to a higher-price worse-quality position. He combines thoughts around the cost of barrista machines vs kettles, the need for price homogeny between the options, and that coffee shouldn't be done with boiling water - so now tea isn't either. It's worth a watch.

Always find the tea in Starbucks etc ridiculously hot. I can’t drinks tea out of a takeaway cup. I just can’t.

I'd been shopping and had an hour to kill before I needed to get home and a good book in my bag, so popped into Costa for a treat coffee (I have maybe one a week in various coffee shops) and a quiet read. Only the two people working there were so loud and clumsy! dropping everything, banging everything. Then they started to tidy up at 4pm and scraped every single chair across the tiled floor instead of lifting them. Gah! so much for my peaceful hour! (sounding even more like my mother now ). I'm wondering if I should boycott them for having the flaming cheek to ask for £2.20 for a mince pie.

Swearing adds so much to a thread 😬

Costa mince pies are particularly nice though....

(IMO)

Food in coffee shops is generally way overpriced even taking into account overheads. My local hipster-y place sells a scone with butter for £3.50. Slim portions of cake are £3.

Pumpkin Cafe (on a railway station platform) selling Twixes for £1.09, and a tiny bag of Cadbury's Snowballs for £2.99. Never has my sweet tooth been overridden so fast.

Costa is the only coffee place I like ! I don't drink coffee but their tea is decent and they have the best hot chocolate.

£2.20 is crazy for one mince pie but it's expected from these chains. I would probably gasp for air if I saw something under £1 and actually worth it (lindt ball doesn't count)

I work a lot for not a lot of money. So on pay day it's my treat to get a panini and hot chocolate for the train. But I can't understand how people pay so much every day for a Costa !