It’s time for throwback Thursday! I don’t know if I will do this every Thursday, but I love these flashbacks to Starbucks of the past. This coffee was offered in about 2008, and it was a grocery store item.
Notice that this Starbucks South Tanzania comes pre-ground! Thank you so much to the reader who sent me these photos. I love it. And as I have said many times, the colorful, pretty packaging of the past was really a delight to see back then, and it is still a delight to see now. Enjoy your first (in a series) of throwback Thursdays!
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Wow, how cool!! I bet it was good…what I’d
give to have my local grocery store carry Reserve!
This post makes 2008 seem so long ago. Way back then Starbucks coffees did not get much if any shelf space in the grocery stores. That might be one of the contributing factors for Starbucks breaking their distribution relationship with Kraft (could be a Throwback Thursday post).
I like your idea for Throwback Thursday.
DadCooks – So true. 2008 seems like a completely different Starbucks era! A reader sent me these photos, and what I thought was amazingly coincidental is that the next Starbucks Reserve coffee IS a South Tanzania!
here it is!
http://www.starbucksstore.com/starbucks-reserve-fair-trade-tanzania-southern-highlands/011028639,default,pd.html?cgid=starbucks-reserve-coffee
can’t wait to enjoy this one!!!
Should be amazing iced! Can’t wait to try it iced from the Clover!
It is true to see how different the stores are now than in 2008. I think perhaps it has to do with the coffee culture and competition. I also think maybe customers have become more sophisticated so SB had to change their direction.
Oh I read the blog post too fast and assumed it was in the stores as well as the grocery stores! But even so I do notice a difference in what the customer sees on the shelves whether in a grocery store or in a SB store.
I agree that 2008, especially EARLY 2008, Sbux was a much different store. I wish I felt they were going in a better direction…but I don’t. I don’t see post-2008 as better. (soul possibly sold….:(
I repeat… DOes anybody know whether it really is Tanzania coffee.
I just noticed Starbucks Reserve Tanzania is unleased again via Starbucks.com…hope I see it on the shelves of the local Reserve store!…want to make Iced coffee out of it…sounds amazing!