I am taking Thanksgiving week off from this blogging addiction! I will be back though, but sorry, there will be no updates for a full week. I know it’s a long time to go with nothing new. Hopefully you’ll come back in one week. Please feel free to comment on any thread, or post ANY Starbucks related comment in this thread.
This is an OPEN thread and even if you want to kvetch about your store, or talk about whole beans, or Via, or whatever, this thread is fair game.
Before I take a short break from the whirlwind blogging, I want to mention and highlight my favorite of my blog posts (in no particular order):
- “Tea is a prism that colors each day“
- “Recyclable cups & Starbucks“
- “(Red) & Starbucks: The year in review“
- “Starbucks tests the Honey Vanilla Vivanno“
- “15 pieces of Starbucks flair“
- “The Magic of Sumatra and Aged Sumatra“
What’s your favorite blog entry? (If you have one! I guess that’s pretty bold of me to even ask!) Enjoy your wide open thread!
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A whole week?!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! Will miss the blog posts though.
Enjoy Thanksgiving!
I should try this time away from blogging thing sometime.
Yes Melody have a nice blogging break and a very good Thanksgiving. I have signed up to go with Alki Tours to Kiana. I have been there before but always by boat. I’m looking forward to it.
Oh you asked me my favorite blog entry. I guess it’s gotta be the one about Starbucks trashing the gold card with it’s 10% discount into a glorified punch card with “free” drinks and no discount. What a positivily Grinchy thing for them to do.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for coffee. What would I do without it?
And my favorite blog was the frappuccino blog, DUH!
Can she actually do it? A week without checking in here? Only if she leaves her laptop at home! Maybe?
Shall we start a pool? 🙂
(Mel, thanks for the coffee, finally showed up last week, and haven’t had a chance to try it yet. Think I’ll save it for T-day! Have a great holiday week!)
Oh, yeah, my favorite thread (which shouldn’t have to exist, since it’s from a mistake on SBUX’s part) is also the ‘Gold Card is doomed, long live the new Gold (Level) Card’ thread. As I’ve posted on MSI, I’m always amazed at how poor the marketing advice SBUX gets (see Mel’s 80/20 comments about how companies should treat their best clients, and my comments about how Apple treats theirs!).
The only good thing I can see about this dastardly change is current gold card members (like you and I) only have to make 15 separate purchases to get our first so called “free” drink whereas everyone else has to make 45. After that though everyone else is equal. SUCKIE!
Happy Thanksgiving! my favorite words in all this blog: ” Random Acts of Coffee Passion”. perfect and beautiful.
My favorite entry thus far would have to be the one on the sourcing of Sumatra and Aged Sumatra. That entry shows how much work really goes into getting one pound of beans on the shelves at your local Starbucks.
What am I thankful for? I got to see my all-time rock heroes put on a show this weekend that shook my musical education to its very foundations. I will always be thankful for that. Oh, and the fantastic skinny cinnamon dolce latte I had from SBUX down the street.
you know, you’re not *really* taking a week off 😛
so far, my favourite post has been the swag post, but you probably figured that out already 🙂
i saw major yesterday, and he actually remembered who i was. very amazed, because usually i tend to blend in pretty well.
anyway, do have a good holiday. i’ll likely be home, watching movies with the small boy, while the big boys take over the kitchen and make something fabulous (i like men that cook!).
Here is my thoughtful comment Melody. Hope you are having a very restful week off of your blogging duties and will have just a lovely Thanksgiving and won’t eat too much. Enjoy yourself Melody my friend!
The flair one was my favorite. In fact, I posted a link to it on the personal Facebook walls of my favorite baristas, using a different thumbnail of each flair to represent each of them.
Pumpkin spice latte!
The worst place about where I work is there is no Starbucks within a reasonable distance (2 blocks), so I gave notice today.
@Steve, Why don’t you post on MSI anymore??
My boyfriend got me an early xmas present – a cuisenart coffee machine with a built in bean grinder on top! It was right after I saw the clover machines working and though not a clover machine it sorta reminds me of it. I’m excited. I haven’t busted in to the new coffee machine yet but I have two bags of coffee from a certain Starbucks Blogger that are going to grind up nicely in my new coffee machine! *SQUEE* I can’t wait…Thanksgiving Blend HERE I COME! ((thank you for the coffee!))
@Kat If you want to post on how your new grinder/maker works, that would be interesting… I’ve got a cheapo Cuisinart mini-drip machine, and was looking to upgrade to something better.
Melody… You should come up with a thanksgiving blog that you can just re post year after year.
Do you have a blog on grounds for the garden? I really enjoyed the re-cycling information.
Hey Nathan I do post on MSI sometimes but not as much because I am really disgusted with Starbucks and MSI. We waste our time giving our opinions about various topics like how we like the gold card and no gimmmicky punch cards and the moderators all give us false hope that they are listening to us so they talk out of both side of their mouths like politicians and they do what they want to and scrap the gold card with the discount and come up with a gimmicky glorified punch card and tell us it’s an “enhacement”.
Hi Steve (or anyone) – I get confused where all this hostility of yours about the new program comes from. I have a long list of complaints about the new program, and I have no doubt it is a FAR worse deal for me, and in fact for most customers except “treat-seekers”. Despite all that, it doesn’t test my loyalty and doesn’t really change my relationship with Starbucks. The Gold Card only existed for one year! It’s not like a long-standing tradition got tossed away with a sneeze.
Compare, if you will, the Gold Card program to brewed coffee regime: A 30 year + tradition of a showcasing a variety of high quality coffees tossed out with little debate.
The Gold Card was a free perk (you got yours free for being a part of MSI & I was sent mine free very early as one of the early ‘best customers’ lol) – The corporation wasn’t under any obligation to keep it going. And everyone who paid for the Gold Card will still get a full year out of it. We just have to accept it was a one year experiment in terror that for reasons unbeknown to us, have been discontinued.
I have no “hostility” about the new rewards program. I do think Starbucks should not have discontinued the gold card and it’s discount after only one year. It was a good program and encouraged people to buy more than they normally would have. What I resent is Starbucks coming out with a glorified punch card after telling us that they were not going to come out with a gimmicky (your word not mine) punch card and feeding us the BS that it’s “an enhancement”.
To me, the part about the new rewards that upsets me the most is how they are insulting our intelligence. We all know it’s not as good of a deal, yet they insist that it is better. That part frustrates me more than the actual change.
Hey Nathan the new rewards program is better–better for Starbucks that is because instead of giving away 10% to gold card members all they have to do is give people a drink that they actually pay for after they accumulate 15 stars and get them to believe it’s actually free. And you remember how many people were clammoring for punch cards. A lot of people will just trip over themselves to accumulate their 15 stars to earn their “free” drink and they know it’s free because Starbucks says it’s free. Of course people who aren’t already gold card holders already have to acumulate 45 (that’s right 45; 30 just to get to the gold level then 15 more) to earn their first “free” drink. Talk about insulting people’s intelligence!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Hope it is wonderful and filled with family and friends for all. And I’m thankful for having readers and commenters on this blog!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU TOO MELODY AND EVERYONE OUT THER FLOATING AROUND IN CYBER SPACE LAND!! I AM OFF IN THE RAIN TO KIANA, A FANCY SMANCY HOIDY TOIDY LODGE ON THE WATER. OF COURSE TODAY EVERYTHING IS ON THE WATER!
Happy Thanksgiving Melody!
Enjoy your holiday week vacation! Found your site through my friend, Edward On Tour.