June 2010

Coming soon: A brand new Starbucks store with a really big heart!

June 10, 2010

What’s 2300 square feet and has an even bigger heart? The brand new Starbucks inside Children’s Hospital Seattle. Coming soon: July 17, 2010 Starbucks is scheduled to open a new company-operated store inside Children’s Hospital in Seattle.  Most Starbucks located inside other businesses are licensed locations, but this one is not.  This is an all [...]

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A short break in new posts – Week of June 6th

June 6, 2010

StarbucksMelody is on vacation and will be taking a very short break from producing new blog posts.  She’s off to Disneyland, and will return to her usual routine of blogging about three times a week when she comes home to Seattle.  Please come back and visit the site next week! In the meantime, here are [...]

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Store Review – Starbucks at Aurora Village in Seattle (#394) and the final chapter of the car story

June 4, 2010

It’s been a while since I have written a store review of a Starbucks, but with this blog entry I’ll be reviewing the Starbucks at 200th North and Highway 99, right on the border between King and Snohomish County.  It is the “Aurora Village” Starbucks, near the Aurora Village Transit Center.  During this blog post [...]

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Spreading the rare Starbucks coffee love all across the U.S. – A proposal

June 3, 2010

Starbucks has a large coffee challenge that they don’t really talk about:  How do they source the very highest quality coffee and distribute it to all their stores?  The challenge becomes really obvious when you think about very small growing regions and the large number of stores that Starbucks has to supply coffee to. The [...]

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Tea that’s not afraid to mingle…at Starbucks

June 1, 2010

I’ll be honest, I struggled to write this blog post. My problem mostly is that I don’t have precise information about Tea That’s Not Afraid To Mingle at your local Starbucks.  A few years ago, there was a very small test of a couple of unique tea beverages.  My faded memory suggests to me that [...]

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