Red Stamp app & ecards: Recognize your favorite Starbucks barista with the new collection.
This is super cool. You can send your favorite Starbucks barista a virtual card via the Red Stamp application on your iPhone or iPad. Here’s what I’ve heard: “For years,…
Starbucks – Belfast, Ireland
A reader in Belfast sent me some great photos of his neighborhood Starbucks store. I always think it’s fun to have a glimpse at what international Starbucks stores offer. There…
Promo: Register a Starbucks Card, get $5 on your card from Starbucks.
From now until March 14, 2013, Starbucks has a promotion going on to encourage people to register their Starbucks cards. If you register a Starbucks card, Starbucks will put $5…
The new Birch wood Starbucks card: Collectible from the get-go.
Starting March 5, 2013, Starbucks will be offering another first for their loyalty cards: A Starbucks card made of wood. The card will be made from Birch wood harvested from…
NEW: Starbucks bottled Iced Coffee: now at your grocery store.
I dropped by the Safeway at East John and 15th in Seattle today (February 24, 2013), and stumbled upon the new Starbucks bottled iced coffees. There are four flavors: vanilla…
Casi Cielo chalkboard art – Key Tower Starbucks.
I am a fan of great Starbucks chalk art. There have been several times that I have featured Scott’s hand-drawn art, which is on display at the Seattle Municipal Building…
Isla Flores Indonesia – New Starbucks Reserve Coffee
The new Starbucks Reserve coffee called Isla Flores Indonesia launched in Starbucks on February 19th. It’s a bold, wash-processed, Indonesian coffee, grown at an elevation of about 3,950 feet to…
Starbucks coffee promo: Bonus stars for at-home coffee thru March 31, 2013
You are earning bonus My Starbucks Rewards stars right now for buying coffee for home at company-operated Starbucks stores! A reader alerted to me the fact that her My Starbucks…
Goodbye Puget Sound Plaza Starbucks (Starbucks store #103).
Goodbye Puget Sound Plaza Starbucks. It’s always a little sad to me when Starbucks closes one of their stores. It’s been a long while since Starbucks closed a downtown Seattle…
Starbucks tests video chat drive thru ordering.
Video ordering at the Starbucks drive thru is here. Starbucks has been working on refining and expanding their video technology, and now has implemented it in a number of their…
Coffee tasting: Starbucks Kape Vinta and Muan Jai coffees.
Right now, StarbucksStore.com is offering some of the limited international coffees that are usually difficult to come by. Currently, Muan Jai, Kape Vinta, and Puerto Rico coffees are available at…
Starbucks partners run to raise money for Sandy Hook victims: A roundup from the mailbag.
Now and then I receive emails or Facebook messages from people who want me to spread information about something their involved in. I don’t necessarily say “yes” to every single…