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I bought mulled red wine (gluewine sp?) in a christmas market in Germany this last winter. They sell you a proper coffee-type-mug to drink it from, for 6 euros

I bought mulled red wine (gluewine sp?) in a christmas market in Germany this last winter. They sell you a proper coffee-type-mug to drink it from, for 6 euros (about US$7), which you can return when you're done and they'll refund you. I kept mine, it's a nice souvenir of Cologne and I drink my coffee from it every morning :) If you had to pay, say $10 for a proper coffee mug to have your take-away coffee in, but they'd buy back those same coffee mugs for the same price, that would probably solve the problem.

cf498 8y ago
They most of the time dont actually sell those mugs, the 6€ are a deposit.
- chopin 8y ago
  Yeah, but the deposit is higher than the retail price.
  - marcus_holmes 8y ago
    that's the right price to set it at... just more expensive that it would cost to buy the mug from a mug store rather than a coffee store.
- wink 8y ago
  Depends where exactly you are, I'd wager 50% of them are currently officially "take it as deposit or as buying" because they're often styled for the specific christmas market and vary from year to year. Not sure why people would collect those, but to each their own.
gpvos 8y ago
Re sp: Glühwein.
Freak_NL 8y ago
Spelling: Glühwein. There is a catch though. Those mugs either stay near the stand they were sold from, or are taken as souvenirs. This works just fine. With buying coffee on the go, people would take their mug along with them to wherever they are going, and you would have to hand it back the next time you visited that particular coffee shop or one of the same franchise. The risk of the mug getting damaged is much higher, and it is not nearly as convenient to carry a dirty mug around as it is to dispose of a used paper cup. A lot would have to chance for such a system to work. Customer mentalities being one aspect.
- socksy 8y ago
  Kind of what https://recup.de/ https://recup.de/ is trying to solve I guess?
- marcus_holmes 8y ago
  I have zero data on this, but I'll lay decent money that 90% of take-out coffee customers go to the same shop regularly. After all, they're going somewhere, probably somewhere local, with their coffee. If they weren't, they'd stay at the coffee shop to drink their coffee. Or if they're not going somewhere local, then they're on a long journey (not that common). I used to drink most take-out coffee when I worked just around the corner from the coffee stand, and went there every day, twice a day, for decent coffee.

cf498 8y ago

They most of the time dont actually sell those mugs, the 6€ are a deposit.

chopin 8y ago
Yeah, but the deposit is higher than the retail price.
- marcus_holmes 8y ago
  that's the right price to set it at... just more expensive that it would cost to buy the mug from a mug store rather than a coffee store.
wink 8y ago
Depends where exactly you are, I'd wager 50% of them are currently officially "take it as deposit or as buying" because they're often styled for the specific christmas market and vary from year to year. Not sure why people would collect those, but to each their own.

gpvos 8y ago

Re sp: Glühwein.

Freak_NL 8y ago

Spelling: Glühwein. There is a catch though. Those mugs either stay near the stand they were sold from, or are taken as souvenirs. This works just fine. With buying coffee on the go, people would take their mug along with them to wherever they are going, and you would have to hand it back the next time you visited that particular coffee shop or one of the same franchise. The risk of the mug getting damaged is much higher, and it is not nearly as convenient to carry a dirty mug around as it is to dispose of a used paper cup. A lot would have to chance for such a system to work. Customer mentalities being one aspect.

socksy 8y ago
Kind of what https://recup.de/ https://recup.de/ is trying to solve I guess?
marcus_holmes 8y ago
I have zero data on this, but I'll lay decent money that 90% of take-out coffee customers go to the same shop regularly. After all, they're going somewhere, probably somewhere local, with their coffee. If they weren't, they'd stay at the coffee shop to drink their coffee. Or if they're not going somewhere local, then they're on a long journey (not that common). I used to drink most take-out coffee when I worked just around the corner from the coffee stand, and went there every day, twice a day, for decent coffee.