Starbucks merchandise/retail

This was your chance to share your favorite Starbucks mug and story to go with it.

January 30, 2011

At the beginning of January 2011, I asked you to send me a photo of your favorite Starbucks mug and tell me why it is your favorite.  Here was the blog article asking for your pics: Your favorite Starbucks mug – 30 easy $5 Starbucks gift cards This is what you sent me: your mug [...]

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I really love my Starbucks planner: Thank you @SbuxIndonesia

January 27, 2011

I want to share with you an amazing merchandise item from Indonesia: A Starbucks planner.  At the end of December I got a gift in the mail from Romie Johanes who is a Starbucks partner in Jakarta, and he is also the official voice of @SbuxIndonesia.  It’s been a number of years since any planner [...]

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The Valentine’s Day box: Memorable merchandise moments in Starbucks history

January 13, 2011

Memorable moments in Starbucks merchandise history continued:  A loyal reader of this site sent me an email of a Valentine’s Day box sold at Starbucks not too long ago.  I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to dive one more time into the era of Starbucks merchandise long gone by.  This little pink box, complete with cards, [...]

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Memorable merchandise moments in Starbucks history: Paper clips

January 12, 2011

Another round of interesting Starbucks history at StarbucksMelody.com:  In the 1990s, Starbucks tried selling a variety of things in their stores.  Sometimes I think that is what made it so fun.  The customer was always going to be surprised at what they might find for sale in their local store.  These Starbucks “Critters” paperclips are [...]

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30 easy $5 Gift Cards Contest: My favorite Starbucks mug is…

January 1, 2011

What better way to start 2011 than with a fun contest for a $5.00 gift card?  There will be 30 winners of a $5 Starbucks gift card! That is a lot!  I want to get a lot of people participating in this, and I am hoping that my readers will share this blog post either [...]

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The new sample size Starbucks Reserve coffee cup is adorable

December 21, 2010

This is a short blog post on a few of my favorite collectible Starbucks items.  The three items picked for this episode don’t really have some common connection, but I like all three things so I figured I would share them here. I’ve got something old, something new, something borrowed, and something yellow.   As [...]

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Brand new chocolates: Starbucks Via Ready Brew dark chocolate bars!

November 14, 2010

Starting November 16, 2010, Starbucks will be selling some new chocolates in their stores!  The twist is that the new chocolate bar has Via Ready Brew in it! Wow! Previously I had guessed that this chocolate bars were produced by TCHO chocolates since Starbucks does have an existing partnership with them.  I have been told [...]

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I’m super excited about Huxley Mouse (Starbucks Holiday 2010)

November 4, 2010
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Huxley Mouse is part of the Holiday 2010 collection at Starbucks and it’s an adorable plush mouse.  It’s been released in Canada already, and will soon be available in the U.S. too, later this month.  There will be a few various items all Huxley Mouse themed including a little book, a tumbler and the mouse.  [...]

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Blog Action Day 2010: Ethos Water at Starbucks – Let’s make the partnership better!

October 15, 2010
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Let’s make Starbucks’ partnership with Ethos Water better.  If you read no further than this one sentence, then click here: Ethos Water: Stand firm behind this partnership And now for more detail and how this blog post came about: By some random luck, through fellow twitterer QuirkyJessi, I stumbled upon a website called “Blog Action [...]

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Refreshingly New: Starbucks Barista Bar Blender (2003)

October 13, 2010
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A friend sent me a little booklet produced by Starbucks showing off the “Starbucks Barista Bar Blender“. The booklet was produced in 2003, and I have to assume that back then you could purchase a blender inside a Starbucks.  I don’t personally remember being able to buy a blender at a Starbucks in that era, [...]

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