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“The Roast You Love The Most” coffee tastings coming to Starbucks near you (Jan., 12th – 14th)

January 11, 2012
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Something blonde is here at Starbucks.  Yesterday, I shared a few tweets from my twitter followers about trying the Blonde Roast coffees for the first time.  Today, we are talking about coffee  tasting experiences.  Starbucks will be doing tastings in their stores nationwide (United States) on January 12, 13, and 14th, and it’s dubbed something [...]

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A mini Starbucks store review: The little University Village store.

January 9, 2012
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If you are visiting Seattle’s University Village shopping center, there are two company-operated Starbucks stores.  One is very large and is well-known.  The other is a tiny little store about two blocks (or less) away near the Crate and Barrel store.  The large Starbucks store tends to get a lot of attention, and is a [...]

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Grand Opening: Starbucks opens a new Clover (and future beer and wine) store in Seattle

January 2, 2012
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Today (Jan., 2, 2012) is the grand opening day for the most recent Starbucks location in Seattle.  It’s a beautiful 1800 square foot store in the South Lake Union neighborhood, and features a Clover, tall ceilings, friendly partners, and is slated to have beer and wine some time in the spring of this year.  I [...]

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Thank You 2011 for a great Starbucks year. (OPEN THREAD)

December 31, 2011

Happy New Year to all my readers!  Have you made any resolutions for 2012?  Don’t forget that you can bring in your tumbler (meaning the limited promo tumbler) for free coffee refills during the month of January.  The previous article about that promotion is here. I decided to start the new year with a blank [...]

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Merry Starbucks Christmas to all!

December 25, 2011

Happy Holidays everyone! Christmas at Starbucks is here, and so I thought I would collect all of my blog articles talking about Christmas in one place.  Every blog article that I have written that touches on Christmas of yesteryear is listed here.  I thought it was pretty fun to look at the holiday seasons over [...]

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You can help a Starbucks partner win her dream wedding.

December 23, 2011

The story of one Starbucks partner’s wedding dream: One of my regular blog readers (Anne) recently emailed me, asking  for help with a quest to get a Starbucks partner a dream wedding:  The partner who wrote me is a Starbucks store manager in Laguna Niguel, California, and one of her shift supervisors (Sarah H.) is [...]

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The Shipping Container Starbucks store

December 19, 2011
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On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Starbucks opened their first store constructed out of shipping containers.  The store is located in Tukwila, Washington, at 3302 Northfolk Street, Tukwila, 206 – 762 – 3249 (Starbucks store number 15560).  It’s actually close to the intersection of Norfolk and East Marginal Way, which is not far from the Museum [...]

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Cliff Burrows on his Starbucks Partner Immersion Experience. (Audio)

December 12, 2011

Earlier this year, I went to a Starbucks event where Cliff Burrows, President of Starbucks Americas, gave a short and informal presentation.  He talked for several minutes, and for about one minute of his presentation, he reminisced back to the time when he was going through the Starbucks partner immersion experience.  As many may know, Starbucks requires [...]

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The Starbucks billboard tote bag.

December 9, 2011
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Last month on StarbucksStore.com, Starbucks made available a limited number of tote bags produced from a Starbucks billboard.  Unfortunately the actual link for the tote bag no longer works.  I saw a tweet from one of my favorite twitter profiles (@StarbucksCard) which caught my attention: 300 bags were produced from the billboard.  The photo on [...]

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Featured Clover Starbucks – The International District store in Seattle (505 Union Station)

December 7, 2011
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It’s time to feature the Clover Starbucks in Seattle’s International District.  It is actually at 505 Union Station, which is not to be confused with “Union Street” in Seattle, which is not near this store.  In early September this year, the store went through a major remodel, and so I thought it would be fun to [...]

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