Price of Nescafe Clasico

Well, you know how the construction business is, either feast or famine. When it was famine time around the house I used to shop a lot at Walmart, but I like Soriana, and Comercial Mexicana, too.

John

Hummingbirdie -- I caught the sneer in your ... voice? typing? We're in agreement here. That's not to say WalMart shoppers are evil or bad (I've shopped there myself on occasion), but that the "system" itself is nothing new, and just an old form of exploitation under a new and fancy brand name.

RichTx1, talk about exploitation, the mom and pop stores in Veracruz add 6.5 pesos to a product that cost them $43 pesos.

Plus these little stores loan money to the poor people in the neighborhood at 10% PER MONTH interest. Before the gringo upper class "educated" do gooders begin to criticize, you need to do your homework in the field and find out who the real exploited are.

John

RJ_1, #13, Well, the way I calculate it, 6.5 pesos profit on a sale of a 49.5 peso item amouts to a 13% gross profit margin. I don't know of ANY U.S. merchant that could sell his goods at a 13% gross profit margin and even remain in business! That's REALITY! PS - I was in retail trade for 50 years before moving to México and now I'm in retail trade in México and I guarantee you that I could NOT remain in business with a gross profit margin that low!

mazgringo, thanks for the clarification. I didn't know.

John

personally, i think anyone who drinks no es cafe doesn't deserve a reply. mike, i'm astonished! smiles for miles, edward

Just to save MX$1.50 (each) you're going to lug back two jars of instant coffee? Maybe I'm missing something in this discussion, but that seems a very odd, and codo thing to do; we're going to send you to Monterrey!

LOL #16, that's been my thought reading this thread - I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who lives by the Nescafe No-es-cafe motto. It will suffice when there is nothing else around by I can't imagine people buying it because they like it. Two giant jars of it? blech, you can get 500g of great ground coffee, straight from Veracruz or Chiapas for around 50 pesos - I even bought a kilo for 42 pesos of excellent beans not too long ago. That said in Mexico I was a mercado and tiendita shopper 98% of the time, and no I was not wealthy, a grad student on a limited income, but really worrying about a 6 peso difference? Superama was for cheddar cheese only.

Ednlyn, NoEsCafé is a drug. I am a NoESCafe druggie. Some people smoke cigarettes for the drugs in them; I drink NoEsCafé for the caffeine rush. The best part is opening the seal on a new jar and inhallng the brief rush of aromatic gas. It always reminds me of diesel buses exhausts, and of México City. I don't always have time to wait for the Chiapas Café Tostado Oscuro to drip. Así es.
But today, I'm drinking the good stuff.

By the way, a café con leche made with Nescafé is not to sneered at. Also, I'd rather get a cup of hot water and a jar of Nescafé in some ordinary restaurant than poorly made drip or espresso coffee. (I could name at least one in Pátzcuaro where the brewed coffee tastes like rusty water. Others taste like "agua de calcetín".
By the way, some of the best coffee in Pátzcuaro, non-espresso type, is at the Hotel Mesón de San Antonio, but it's only served to guests.

I could start a new thread rating Pátzcuaro's coffee houses and products, and after that, continue my ratings of sanitarios/baños públicos; which would be entirely logical.

10....... The best part is opening the seal on a new jar and inhallng the brief rush of aromatic gas...

and I thought it was only me who enjoyed this!!

I must admit.. thru the week I am also a Nescafe drinker, but on weekends (for change of pace) I like to run some beans thru my grinder and make a fresh pot..... dem beans smell pretty good too!