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The 1.3oz Bag of Coffee

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I just ran into the Farmers Brothers rep who was replenishing our floor's supply of coffee (or as my friend Ben calls it, "office brown") and chatted with him for a minute. It turns out that Microsoft has special-ordered those prepackaged bags of coffee with only 1.3oz of coffee in them. Evidently about 1.5oz is normal.

Is this some bizarre cost-cutting measure?

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  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    Thats the funniest thing I have heard today!
  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    Nah, this just reflects Microsoft's policy of taking something already on the market, modifying it slightly and rebranding it.

    Rev
  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    Technically, this isn't rebranding -- it's still Farmers Brothers coffee. Just 0.2oz lighter.
  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    The MS edition though. Kind of like Starbuck's Silk Soy Milk. =)
  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    What I found more interesting was that Farmers would make a special coffee bag just for Microsoft. Evidently they do it for lots of their corporate customers.
  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    This is not unusual. Almost every place I work has this problem. Most places, they just solve it by using 2 bags per brew to double the strength, actually resulting in higher costs for the coffee.
  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2004
    I would imagine that as it isn't a standard size, the 1.3 oz bag will actually cost more than the 1.5 oz bag.
    [I have vast experience of this. My wife's mother always bought 250gm bags of coffee when the standard size was 500gm. Invariably (because coffee was often on sale) you could buy 500 gm bags for less than the 250gm bags.]
  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2004
    Except that Microsoft buys so much of it (remember we have like 50K employees worldwide and probably 35K in the Puget Sound area alone) that it becomes cost-effective.

    I have a feeling, however, that cost-savings wasn't the motivation. I just thought it was weird.