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https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/profit-margins https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/pro... Starbucks margin is 10%

• pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
  > It's hilarious that you're still arguing about COGS when I plainly spelled out what the biggest actual costs are... That's not exactly out of trend, considering how this subthread began. You wrote: > No, you'll pay more ... when that was not the question. The question was whether "they will have to raise prices" is accurate. (If the author had omitted "have to" and just wrote "if a coffeeshop wants to pay their employees more then they will raise prices" (as you more or less have done here), then that would be fine. There's a reason they didn't, though. Inserting the "have to" is a rhetorical sleight of hand. It's a form of hyperbole that makes it sound like the price increase is an unavoidable consequence that follows naturally from the facts and a set of common logical axioms, even though it doesn't.) The other commenter's choosing to argue about cost of goods, even though that isn't the issue you're prosecuting, is a lot like your choosing to argue that they will raise prices, even though that wasn't the issue I was prosecuting.