Hey, I'm Shawna Compton Game.

This is Millennium Money, and today we're talking the Starbucks effect on your money.

Millennial Money with Shawna Compton game.

It will expand your brain.

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So, you know, it's simple advice, right? You cut out Starbucks and you'll hit your money goals. That it's just that simple, right? Well, I argue that's not always true, but there is, I think,

a Starbucks effect on your money. And what really inspired me to do this podcast was a recent article I found by

Value Penguin, where it talked about Starbucks coffee from the most and least expensive.

They looked at how indulgent is Starbucks beyond our borders. And they took prices for the drink in 39 other countries

and then adjusted them to reflect the cost of other goods and services compared to the United

States. And what is fascinating is the result to reveal that Starbucks is actually

pricier, relatively speaking, in every country outside of the United States,

but how much priceier actually varies quite a lot. And I'm going to include a link to this article

in the show notes because I think it's really fascinating to go over and check out. You know,

they have this great graph where it talks about where the latte

takes the biggest bite. And in the United States, again, we're kind of the most, the cheapest

priced for Starbucks coffee. The most expensive actually was in Russia where it's about

$12.32 for a cup of Starbucks coffee.

That is really expensive.

Just behind them is Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Egypt, Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia, Poland, all of these really interesting places.

The UK was about $2.88 and Australia was a little bit more at $4.10.

So I think really interesting. They estimate again the United States is about $2.75 for a cup of coffee.

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