The Treat Receipt returns to Starbucks this upcoming Monday, July 15, 2013!! It’s a favorite promo for many customers. Here is how it works:
- Go to Starbucks in the morning – buy anything.
- Hang on to your receipt.
- Go to Starbucks in the afternoon, after 2 pm. With your receipt, you can order any Grande size iced (a cold cup) beverage for $2.00.
It’s a great deal for those who want an afternoon Frappuccino, or it even would be a pretty good savings on the Refreshers too. I know that I’ll definitely take advantage of this now and then. This year, the Treat Receipt promotion runs from July 15th through August 18th.
In case you’re curious, Starbucks first introduced the Treat Receipt as a promo in August 2008. In 2008, it ran from August through September. The Treat Receipt has returned every year, though Starbucks has definitely tweaked with its promotional run from time to time. In 2009, the Treat Receipt ran for three months!
The Treat Receipt is a great chance to try a customized drink without spending extra. For example, a Valencia Orange Refresher with just a pump of Vanilla is nice because the Vanilla seems to cut down on the tanginess of the beverage. That would still just be $2! You can customize a Frappuccino too – such as a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino with raspberry syrup. Again, that Grande Frappuccino would be $2.00.
There are few details to keep in mind: Licensed stores may not necessarily be participating in this promo – check with them. And, this promo is restricted to the Grande size cold cup, which is 16 ounces. You cannot use a Treat Receipt and get a Venti or Trenta beverage. And, the receipt that you use to get your $2 beverage has to be from earlier in the same day.
Enjoy your Treat Receipt! Definitely a good way to save money!
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I’d heard this was on its way soon…glad to see it Monday! It always seems to be such a good opportunity and still I see lots of people just ignoring it…even tho they’re likely to be back after 2P. Oh well, I have to assume they don’t want anything cold and grande? I also see the partners, during these days, become increasingly tired of mentioning it to a customer. I think it’s helpful if they do, even when there is signage.
Anyway, glad to see it back and an easy drink for me to get after 2P!
Glad to see it’s back, too.
I’ve also been enjoying the star codes on bags of beans bought in non-Starbucks stores (other items, too? I don’t know).
I feel like what is printed on the code sticker: Yippee!
Sort of a side track to mention another promotion at least around here that does not seem to be noticed. We finally got the Evolution juices and they are good. I noticed the other day there were a pile of coupons in a wired container near the register with no sign and as the days have gone by the pile does not seem to have gone down. I have taken advantage of the coupons but they have the sign for the juices but have not seen any re the coupons. The treat receipt promo is one I rarely use although my husband sometimes uses it.
I would just like to say THANK YOU to Melody for sharing this promotion and all of the “small print” that goes along with it. Too many non-Starbucks websites/email blasts fail to mention the specifics and it’s nice to know that there is someone out there giving out the correct information! So, thanks!!!
well its £2 ($3.02) after 2pm in the UK
rip off britain
This is the best part of summer. Been known to buy a Trenta ice tea for my wife at 1:55 PM and return for my frap at 2:01 . Great news!
I can already taste the (redacted) Chocolate Vivanno Smoothie.
There is also a random 25% off espresso coupon being loaded on to some Starbucks Card holders. It’s important to check the app to see what coupons one has.
@calwatch – I got a coupon loaded into my MSR account late Wednesday for BOGO any sandwich or salad thru July 16th.
I’ll be returning for an Iced Shaken Peach Green Tea Lemonade 🙂
Thank you for the heads up, Melody! I will be taking advantage of it too!
I might want to take advantage of it for The Valencia Orange Refresher. I bought a grande earlier this week for just under $4, and it sure seemed like I was finished drinking it after 3 sips. The Valencia Orange is the only Refresher I like, but with all the ice in it, $2 is a better value than $3.89 for a grande.
It’s nice to know a customized drink w/ syrups will not have the added cost to go with it, but what about additional espresso shots or milk upgrade in let’s say an, Iced Grande Breve Caramel Macchiato? I didn’t realize until reading this post, that Treat Receipt is only for cold drinks, was it like that every year? It does make a lot of business sense, since the Frappuccino & Iced drinks are mostly just ice, which will still leave room for profitability. I’m also looking forward to that Iced Coffee event thing (online convo?) on the 16th.
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I’m with DadCooks on the Iced Peach Green Tea Lemonade! Delicious.
@laily: yes, to the added espresso shots etc. The $2.00/treat receipt applies to ANY iced (cold) grande drink, with an earlier receipt from the same day, after 2P. (I always get an iced grande quad doubleshot, so this will be great for that!) You do, I have found, often…or sometimes?..need to remember to ask the partner on the register for your receipt…..that is not always a ‘given’…..treat-receipt or not.
@KDH – I appreciate your words, but much later after the article had been up for hours, I did a face-palm! I realized I had forgotten to write the word “cold” or “Iced” in front of Grande in several places! Sometimes I just get moving too fast on these articles. :-/ It’s better now.
@DensieR – I agree with you that all the add ins are included with the $2 Treat Receipt. I can recall at some point years ago ordering a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino with a banana, which is an expensive add in, and sure enough, my beverage was still $2!
I think for high profit margin iced beverages, the treat receipt still is a good deal to Starbucks. But, I think the real, unspoken, purpose of the Treat Receipt is to try to train existing customers (they came in the morning!) to be twice a day customers. The percentage of customers who are regularly twice a day customers is actually quite small, but those are the customers who spend the most at Starbucks. That’s my guess.
Which reminds me that there isn’t a one for one relationship with customers. One customer lost doesn’t mean one customer gained is the same thing. New customer acquisition can be difficult, and the customer who comes in a few times a month for a Frappuccino still spends less that the twice a day customer.
Melody one comment you just said stood out to me- the percentage of customers who are regularly twice a day customers is actually quite small. Maybe I am jaded because I go more than once a day and on weekends my husband will be there too more than once. But, where I am I do see regular customers at my local store come in during the morning rush and then in the evening. There happens to be fairly nice size of regular customers at my local SB. That is an interesting question you might pose at some point- Ask your readers how many regulars are there at their stores?
Can you buy the first drink at one Starbucks then use the Treat receipt at a different one?
@LB Sorry I’m on my phone so this is short & sweet. Yes, you can use a morning receipt from a different Starbucks than the afternoon Starbucks.
Short and sweet works! Thanks Melody! 🙂
Thanks Denise, I’m getting flooded w/ ideas now. So, I’m thinking about going at 1:45pm & just reloading my card a bit (not buying a drink, but still spending fresh money), then using that receipt 15 minutes later for a Grande HWC Vanilla Bean Frap w/ Valencia Orange Juice & maybe a banana blended in for just $2… that’ll work, right? I never took Treat Receipt time seriously in the past, better late than never that I take advantage of this promotion.
In the UK it is also only a Tall size drink that you can buy as part of the promotion!
@Chris – I wonder why that is! A tall iced beverage doesn’t go very far – it can feel like it is gone in a few sips!
@Laily: yes, that’ll work…whatEVER grande cold drink you want, WITH the treat receipt from any time before 2P that same day, will work at/after 2P, in any corp. store! Hope you enjoy.
I have lately gone straight from the pool to Sbux, which happens to be about 1P-1:30…and getting a tall bold (ie: “dark”) brew and now have the receipt for any thing I might want (usually for someone else) at 2P. So, easy for me! Today, I happened to have 3 receipts fromearlier today, did not need any for myself at 2P, or after, so it was very easy to either watch for or ask if someone about to order a drink wanted to use them. They were VERY appreciated….especially by a little girl about 13? who was ordering a grande frapp. I would not them just to be wasted when so many people enjoy the ‘gift;!
As an aside: I did try the Peach green tea shaken today (would’ve added lemonade but they were out til later today.) So, I got the above and wow…tasteless! to me. The barista added more peach syrup 2X and I still could barely taste a hint of Peach. The lemonade would help I think, and LOTS of Peach syrup. It is very subtle, for sure…to me. (they did comp me for the drink)
Anyway, it’s a good program so, enjoy;)
Denise, you should try the peach syrup with the black tea – the peach really seems to bring out the mint flavour of the green tea, and to me, they compete. The black doesn’t seem to have that same issue 🙂
@Rebecca: thanx for your suggestion! I did get the Peach Green Tea Lemonade yesterday, which was really good! Will definitely be getting that again. (I think lemon any-thing makes most things better, but especially lemonade in this HEAT!!!!)
The peach tea lemonade with either black or green tea does NOT taste as good as the original drink they tested with pieces of peach that added flavor. It is disappointing.
@Sandra Trolinger: just had my 2nd one today, as my ‘treat receipt’. I really like it, and since those of us who were not in a test area have never known any different, it works for me! Sorry you were in one of those areas and now have disappointment 🙁