A penny-averse Times reporter has a rant about Starbucks raising the price of a tall coffee in Manhattan to a highly inconvenient $2.01. Here's why 'Bucks doesn't care: most people either don't pay cash or don't order tall coffees, and this price is only in Manhattan. But, "Still, Manhattan is the media capital of the world, and journalists tend to drink strong coffee...the one-cent storm was sure to be noticed." [NYT]
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