May 2010

Collecting Starbucks Bearista Bears

May 11, 2010

Who doesn’t love an adorable little collectible  Starbucks Bearista Bear?  I recently fell in love with the Via Bearista Bear, produced by Starbucks for Japan, and it inspired me to create a blog post.  I wanted to provide some background information on the little bears, and realized that I knew very little.  A quick Google [...]

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For a limited time at your local Starbucks: 3 Region Blend coffee

May 8, 2010

Right now for a limited time, Starbucks is offering a promotional coffee blend called, “Three Region Blend“.  It is the first time that Starbucks has blended together, in perfect harmony, coffee highlighting the best of the three major coffee growing regions (Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific).  My understanding is that all of the beans used [...]

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Should Starbucks bring back the mocha coconut Frappuccino?

May 7, 2010

Frappuccino happy hour begins today (May 7, 2010), and it’s time to talk about a Starbucks favorite: The Mocha Coconut Frappuccino.  Is it time to bring the Starbucks Mocha Coconut Frappuccino back to the stores as a summer drink?  This is one of those ideas that comes up repeatedly on MyStarbucksIdea as a customer request.  [...]

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Starbucks Via Ready Brew earrings and enthusiasm (Episode #3)

May 5, 2010

I must admit I have quite the soft spot for creative Via earrings! This is not the first time I’ve stumbled upon Starbucks partners wearing great Via Ready Brew earrings. Today (May 1, 2010), while visiting a store in Du Pont, Washington, I saw the earrings featured in the main pic for this blog post. [...]

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I’m totally jazzed about Iced Via Ready Brew

May 4, 2010

Yesterday, Melissa Allison of the Seattle Times’ Coffee City blog reported that Starbucks will soon be launching an iced coffee version of Via Ready Brew. It will come in slightly larger packaging than before, and it will be “lightly sweetened”.  Melissa Allison‘s reporting of this helped me decide that the door was open to talk [...]

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For a few minutes, Howard Schultz (Starbucks CEO), Winter and Melody all in one room

May 2, 2010

A meeting with famous Starbucking customer Winter at Roy Street Coffee, and Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks in the room: When I started plotting out this blog entry, I had planned it to be the sequel blog post to my prior interview with Winter, who is the famous Starbucks customer on a journey to see [...]

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Happy 17th Birthday Pioneer Square (Store 363)

May 1, 2010

May 1st is the 17th birthday for the Pioneer Square Starbucks store located at First and Yesler, in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle.  The store first opened on May 1, 1993, and was (roughly) the corporation’s 63rd store. (It definitely was not exactly the 63rd store because of several overlapping store numbering systems – [...]

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