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<Alan > wrote in message
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> On 25 Nov 2004 12:22:59 -0800,
(Eric
> Svendson) wrote:
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>>IMHO, these "pod machines" are a fad soon to fade. Without a doubt
>>there are lots of ways to make a single cup of coffee but see this
>>link to perhaps learn a little more.
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>>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%26start%3D100
>>
>>Eric S.

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>
> Those of us who enjoy good "anything" are frequently willing
> to pooh-pooh a new consumer product for people who don't
> know what's good.
>
> It may last.
>
> Wouldn't surprise me.
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>


That's true. I've made comments about my own 'ordeal', existing upon a
particular 'lower' socio-economic level, and feeling sort of 'herded' along
like cattle by the corporate overseers. I exist upon the discount
market...not full margin. That makes sense for someone with my income on
things like houses, cars, even many appliances...but something like coffee,
I feel a bit resentful that I seemed to be going in circles trying to create
a good cup at home and only finding what I feel now is near 'junk' on the
discount market.

Information is power, but only recently have I found all I really needed was
a $20 press pot to get a decent cup of coffee at home. In the meantime I
was dependent upon advertising and marketing for my information [since I did
not sorround myself with affluence]...which was not designed to lead me to
satisfication, but to 'sell me stuff'. Like a Home Cafe machine...looks so
'affluent' on the box; finally a really 'good' cup of coffee at home etc I
thought; ha, think again. I had the ability to pay, was willing to
pay...but I had to seek outside my 'social' range to find anything decent.
Of course, first I had to search out all the alternatives at the discount
level...which meant wasting a lot of bucks [I couldn't really afford].

So, you're quite right, I imagine there are many people like myself, short
on information, long on demand [for quality in some items, like coffee], but
peruse the discount level of retail marketing which only offers 'junk' [for
the most part]. It's like us 'animals' can drink from the water trough;
'they' don't know better anyway [so probably some boardroom marketer might
argue in their strategy outline]. Put a bag of oats on thier neck and call
it 'cuisine'...and they'll 'come'.

[guess you can tell I'm ****ed about all that wasted money floundering
around at WalMart]...
$20 for a press pot mind you...that's all I really needed. Some people
don't know what's good because the information is not provided for them [and
I believe, perhaps even withheld for sake of 'selling stuff' ].