The Starbucks Coffee Gear store is open to the public, and located on the eighth floor of the Starbucks headquarters. The address is 2401 Utah Avenue South, Seattle, Washington, 98134. Yes, you should visit next time you’re in Seattle!
When you go to the Starbucks Coffee Gear store, you’ll find unique merchandise items not sold anywhere else. (If you are a partner, you can buy most of the merchandise online at http://www.starbuckscoffeegear.com/). Once every few months, I drop by to see what’s new at the store. Their merchandise changes frequently. The Starbucks cycling jerseys seem to be in stock year round. You can browse all my articles on the Starbucks Coffee Gear store here.
The one item that jumped out at me as being a super cool new item was the Starbucks logo grocery sack made from recycled bottles.
I bought one of them at the end of February, and used it right away at the grocery store! As everyone knows, just as it’s the green thing to do to bring your own cup to Starbucks, it’s also “green” to bring your own sacks to the grocery. And here in Seattle, there are no plastic sacks at the grocery store (banned by city ordinance) and you get charged for having not brought in your own bag. It’s usually about five to ten cents bag charge, however I think the merchant can legally charge you a 25 cent fee for needing a paper bag at the grocery. I love this grocery sack. It’s strong, large, and works great at the grocery!
New: iPhone 5 official cases:
The new iPhone 5 official Starbucks cases are finally in. I had dropped by in February, and they weren’t in yet, and on today’s visit (March 25, 2013), I discovered that they’ve just come in. I know that several readers have told me that they want an iPhone 5 Starbucks cover. There are two styles. One is the “Year of the Snake” design, and the other is in black and has the star pattern associated with My Starbucks Rewards:
Looking at those iPhone covers almost makes me wish I had an iPhone, but I really like my Android. I think I prefer the black stars pattern one.
*****GIVEAWAY*****
I have fabulous prizes to giveaway, courtesy of the wonderful people who run the Coffee Gear Store. You’re entering to win two great bags – One is the “Cape Code Tote.” That one has the logo on the front, and it’s a nice sturdy canvas bag. It’s an item that is not being re-ordered, so it won’t be available much longer. The other is one of the new Starbucks logo grocery bags made from recycled bottles. These two bags are super handy and your friends will be jealous!
Here are your bags, if you’re the winner:
Here is how to enter:
1. Leave a comment below – You must tell me what merchandise you really want to see at Starbucks. This is your chance to be creative. If you want Starbucks snow globes, playing cards, or more holiday collectibles, please don’t hold back! What Starbucks logo merchandise would you want to buy?
2. One entry per person. You must be over age 18 to enter.
3. There will be one winner, based upon the number of entries. The winner will be picked at random.
4. Contest closes on April 5, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. PST. (Or it closes when there are 250 valid entries, whichever occurs first.)
5. You must have an address within the United States.
6. While it is not mandatory, I would hope that you would “like” the StarbucksMelody.com page too.
Please bear with me. This will definitely be a test of my newly-installed comment system. I have noticed that the number of comments in the napkin icon is not updating regularly, but you can always look at new comments in the right rail column. Give me a few days to draw a winner. Your prize will be mailed directly to you from the Starbucks Coffee Gear store.
As always, sending me an email, or leaving a Facebook comment is not a valid entry. It must be an actual comment on the blog.
FTC required disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by the Starbucks Coffee Gear store. Thank you so much for offering to do this!
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And just a few more pictures from the Coffee Gear store:
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What a great giveaway! I LOVE the Cape Code Tote, it looks like great quality! And the new Starbucks logo grocery bag is a great way to be eco friendly while showing you are a Starbucks fan!!
I would really, really love for Starbucks to sell the city and state mugs in the Starbucks Store online. I am trying to start a collection and there are a few places I did not purchase a mug while I was visiting.
Liked your Facebook page too so I can stay up to date! Thanks!
I would love to see more ceramic serving pieces like the apple tray I bought one fall. I was disappointed years ago when they scaled back seasonal merchandise in general.
How about Starbucks flashlights!
Great blog, I’m constantly on here enjoying my reading.
The merchandise that I would like to see starbucks start promoting and selling is what the company does and stands for on tshirts and their mugs. For example I know they carry a shirt with a rainbow cup that says pride, and with Schultz current statement on gay marriage why not lead and make a statement. Or if that is over the edge how about the community service and youth action shirts that the partners have for customers, because they are part of service as well.
I’d like to see more seasonal/holiday products!
oh man, are those iphone 5 cases only sold at the Seattle Store? As if i need anything else to buy from Starbucks, i already collect the city/state mugs when i go to those places, also Starbucks cards. I’d like to see little items to give as gifts or go with gift cards.
You know what would be cute (at least to me): Espresso socks. For example, a caramel macchiato sock will look identical to that; white from the toes to mid point, the caramelly espresso dropping down and the caramel criss-cross pattern on top.
i recently discovered your blog. always pleasant to read your new posts. 🙂
i would love to see starbuck’s logos on backpacks or laptop bags. also would be nice to use a binder with the logo— would be a nice change from my boring black binder. actually wouldn’t mind if starbucks start coming out with school supplies.
Simple shirt designs. Black polo or white polo, with a small Starbucks logo on the front. Even a t-shirt with a simple design would be nice. (I am at this very moment wearing a black t-shirt that I got from that very store. It has a small logo on it, along with the word coffee in nine languages.)
Supposedly the Bearista Bears were brought back but, not the real deal. only a step above the ‘recession’ bear of 2009. and then none, now. (here,at least….gone again) I d have some wonderful Sbux datebook/journals from yr before and before but not 2012 or 13 🙁
I would really like candles like pumkin spice and carmel latte that would be way cool
Hi Melody, always great reporting by you. Bedding would be great! Yes it could be with a big Starbucks logo in the center of the comforter but lets be more refined. The word Starbucks vertically on the side of the pillowcases and sheets and a sea of assorted small logos–the history of the logo–on on the comforter. (Bet Howard has a custom made set on his bed!)
Melody I see you have 71 comments for this post and I have not received anywhere near this number in my inbox. What is happening?
Purple1, I don’t know. I don’t have a fix. I mentioned that Disqus is acting glitchy on my end. For example, I’ll get an email notification of a new comment to moderate, and go to the moderation panel, and it takes several minutes to show up. And the comments numbers on the Teavana article never worked. There’s no answer. I can’t easily undo this. If I were rich, I would pour all my time into this blog, and pay someone to do lots of recoding, and I’d look for another comment system – I don’t know if Intense Debate or Livefyre will have the same problems. I am just ever thankful that Brad (a friend) offered to work on the blog for me. I owe him! I know that for me, it’s a little easier to follow the discussions if I click ‘newest’ when reading the comments. I am not totally sure how you subscribe to comments anymore.
I think the disparity between the actual comments and the number you are being emailed is a result of the sync between TWO COMMENT SYSTEMS.
You can get a full feed of ALL DISQUS COMMENT activity here: http://sbuxmel.disqus.com/latest.rss
But I know you want the emails, so if you paste that link into http://blogtrottr.com/ you will be able to get a customizable feed of ALL comments (realtime, every two hours, every four hours, etc).
I hope I can get a better solution implemented soon, but this should work.
I won’t rest until you’re happy, @b30ac54fe49a6c242b5499939fda4d9c:disqus. Even if that means I hand-code a solution just for you.
Great blog Melody 🙂 I would love to see a selection of coffee related candy at Starbucks.
Would love to see Starbucks cell phone cases at ALL Starbucks.
I’m not the most creative person ever so all I can really think of is having more selection of items they already offer, especially tote bags, coffee mugs, notebooks (actually, not sure if they have those at all), and iPhone cases. I do really like that tote bag with the green stripes though! Oh, also I wish the $1 reusable cups came in all sizes. I would fully support any product that encouraged environmental awareness!
I would like to see playing cards and snowglobes. Wouldn’t take up too much shelf space and they can be carried year round. I have so many mugs and tumblers and would like to see more of a variety. Thanks Mel.
I love clear mugs. I drink out of a Yosemite one right now but would love to catch a Starbucks one. I know they have had them but haven’t seen one in a while.
I had an opportunity to visit the coffee gear store while Seattle and wasn’t disappointed. That cape code tote is awesome. I’d love to see things like napkins and tablecloths in Starbucks green.
We don’t have a coffee gear store here in the UK (not that i’m aware of), but those iPhone covers look cool, send me some over? 🙂
This is more of a food item rather than a merchandise, but I really wish they had chocolate covered coffee beans in their stores! I see chocolate covered almonds and other snacks but I have yet to encounter their coffee beans covered in chocolate. I think it would be a pretty cool idea. Merch wise, I wish they had tanktops/muscle tees. I have never seen those from Bucks although I’ve seen other clothing items!
Question – Special deal codes have been appearing in my rewards (sometimes with an alert email and sometimes not – a refresher deal expired before I knew about it). A recent one is code 352 and described $2 off espresso – but today I got an email that says that code is $2 off a macchiato. I guess my question is … have they been doing this for a while, and shouldn’t we get some alert about them? (Melody, I think you have the Android app – does it do alerts?)
Hi theaternut – Yes, I have been getting special deals too, and haven’t used them all. I just got an email for $1 off espresso, not $2. Did not receive the Refresher one at all. The entire topic might be a worthwhile blog topic for a new article. The new strategy appears to be to use the app to lure more people in who have been coming to Starbucks less often. The reverse side is that if you’re a frequent customer, you receive fewer rewards. :-/
I’ve been noticing these too. I saw the refreshers and “espresso” one a few days before I got the emails. I’m also confused about the app stating a $2 expresso discount and the email only mentioning macchiatos.
This disqualification thin is crazy. If my first post didn’t go through here go again. again I would love to see Starbucks hockey jerseys to add to my collection
As a button/pin collector I would like to see more pins, there a few that Starbucks have but some with the orginal logo would be cool!
I would love to see the key size cards comes back, as this is very handy for most of us who is a starbuck junkies, i have mine that i need to retire but need one to replace it with . help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
wowsers! i went to the Coffee Gear store the same day!
That is a funny coincidence! Next time say “hi” to me. 😉
Starbucks logo on laptop case / bag would be nice!!! 🙂
With the addition of Teavana to the company and with Tazo revamping their look, I’d love to see tea tins sold in the Starbucks stores! It has the potential to output some really creative designs! And coming from a girl who already has sooo many ceramic mugs, I’d be collecting those things like there’s no tomorrow!
I think my answer went away? I want Siren sunnies! They had $2 sunglasses for a while but they said Starbucks at the temple. I want our gorgeous siren peering out.
It’s there Jess! It’s way at the bottom now because there are so many comments. I hope no one else finds this thread. This is going to be something else to go through one by one and figure out who has entered in. Since there were no in-line replies in my old comment system, it was easier to figure out entries. I hope you get your Siren spectacles too! 😛
I would love to see Starbucks offer products from the villages that grow Starbucks coffee: baskets from Rwanda, pottery from South America, etc. Let’s do more for the places that grow the coffee that makes all this possible.
Hoodies, Christmas ornaments
Hey Melody – I’d love to see more designer partnerships for merchandise, like last year’s Rodarte collection. I’m also interested in stickers and iPhone cases
Melody as an update and Brad too thanks for your input. I do check off newest for comments and Brad I finally got back to the this blog post and followed your suggestions and hopefully it will work. Thank you.
I’d like to see a zip-up hoodie. They have some available in the one in Times Square, but I’d like to be able to buy it in my local store.
I love canvas bags for my every day life. I take them everywhere. None of the Starbucks stores here have shirts or any sort of apparel.
So utterly cool! I’d love to get lost in there every month! 😀 I would love if they came out w/glass mugs again. I bought the green recycled ones a few years back and absolutely love them. But in the years since, they’ve only had tumblers or whatever. But I live in an apartment so I use glass for everything so my counters and walls don’t look junked up.
Other than that, I’d love if they came up with a really great keychain. And if your giving feedback at all in general. I absolutely LOVED the gift-card mini books that you could buy for $25 that had individual $5 certs in it. Genius – and it saved a whole lot of plastic. 😀
I would love to see a charm bracelet (with the coffees as charms) A starbucks
(barista) friend bracelet would be great too!
It sounds really weird, but some type of a toy (logo mermaid figurine?) or bracelets would be cool. I always drag my daughter into starbucks with me, but she’s not crazy about any of the kid drinks and the only thing that gets her through the quick visit is a cake pop currently.
We have cards for cities and countries, how many mugs do they have for destinations?
I’d like to see more city/state mugs. Bracelets, earrings and pins would be cool. Bring on more bears. I got one in Hawaii. Cutest thing ever! 😀 Coffee cozies would be great in different colors and/or patterns.
I would like to see more accessories, like earrings, headbands. More deals would be good too, as in free shipping.
we have a few places, not nearly all but seems to be increasing again….as it used to be..pre2008..that are brewing BOLD at least a lot later in the day (ie: past 1P!) but yes, wherever I go, if there’s no BOLD, they’ll pretty willingly do a pour-over. pretty much, sometimes need to be prodded. OK, but not the same as freshly brewed to me.
I think it’s be even nicer if they CONTRIBUTED, instead of just ‘reading’ and then coming on for the giveaways! But, if you’re happy, it’s your blog.