January 2010

Mystarbucksidea.com gets a fresh new makeover for 2010…OPEN THREAD

January 9, 2010

It is time to talk about My Starbucks Idea again!  Starbucks has revamped and improved the site as of yesterday late night, and this time with all true improvements after a night of site maintenance.  Time to invite my readers to come check out the improvements. So what has changed? The big change is that [...]

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Featured Starbucks: Columbia Center, Store #101

January 8, 2010

It’s time for a Starbucks history lesson…a particular store worth talking about because of its very unique story.  Every Starbucks store has its history, fans, and tall tales. But the Columbia Center Starbucks, located at 4th and Cherry in downtown Seattle, has one of the longest histories of any Starbucks.  The store dates back to [...]

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Events in Seattle: Everything But The Coffee

January 7, 2010

Bryant Simon, author of Everything But The Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks, is speaking in Seattle at Elliott Bay Books on January 14, 2010.  StarbucksMelody is in the middle of reading this book, and will have more to say when the time comes.  But for my fellow Seattleite friends who might be interested attending, [...]

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My Starbucks Rewards: January 5, 2010 is the big day

January 5, 2010

About 14 months ago, Starbucks launched a program called a Gold Card.  Under the 2008-2009 version of the Gold Card, officially announced in October, and available for customers to purchase as  of November 4, 2008, customers paid $25.00 annual fee to receive ten-percent off all their purchases for the year.  Click here for the official [...]

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StarbucksMelody gets a custom card!

January 3, 2010

Woohoo! My customized Starbucks card arrived today! I realized though after I ordered the card that I should have tried to have it say something like, “check out StarbucksMelody.com” rather than just the website name.  I just registered the card, and it is ready to go! So exciting! I like the plain basic white with [...]

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Starbucks Shared Planet: An introductory lesson about ethical coffee sourcing

January 2, 2010

Welcome to your introduction to Starbucks C.A.F.E. practices and Shared Planet; On Mystarbucksidea.com, the site is intermittently flooded with people who yell, “Starbucks needs to sell more fair trade coffee”.  This blog post is in response to those cries for ethically sourced coffee.  Let’s talk about coffee sourcing – this blog post is your very [...]

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A place to pour out coffee: Drains at condiments stations at Starbucks

January 1, 2010

This very short blog post is inspired by the mystarbucksidea.com thread, “A place to pour out coffee” at Starbucks.  It’s a common theme on mystarbucksidea.com that people want some sort of drain at the condiment area to pour out a little extra coffee to make room for cream or milk.  Here are a few examples [...]

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