Featured Clover Starbucks: One Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts

April 11, 2012
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On March 28, 2012, I had a chance to visit the Starbucks at One Charles Street, located in Boston, Massachusetts.  This store holds the distinction of being the very first Starbucks store in Massachusetts ever!  It opened brand new on April 15, 1994. Congratulations on 18 years of being in Boston! The store’s 18th anniversary [...]

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Starbucks collectibles: Reader submitted favorites – mugs, books, and a beautiful copper French press.

April 9, 2012
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In response to my previous article about Starbucks museum collectibles, a regular reader of this blog emailed with four pictures of his favorite items from his collection.  These are great!  I’ve emailed with this reader a couple of times (though he’s not a commenter) and I can definitely say he’s a very passionate partner in [...]

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Vote.Give.Grow at Starbucks (Open Thread)

April 6, 2012

During the month of April, Starbucks is inviting customers to vote for non-profit organizations who potentially may receive monetary donations from the Starbucks Foundation.  Starbucks is giving away a total of $4 million dollars.  The starting place is this website here: http://www.votegivegrow.com Starbucks card holders can log in to that site and vote for a [...]

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Featured Clover Starbucks: 112 Trapelo Road, Belmont, Massachusetts

April 6, 2012

Late in the day, on March 27, 2012, I stopped by the Starbucks at 112 Trapelo Road, in Belmont, Massachusetts.  This store has a Clover coffee brewer.  The store was not part of my scheduled visits, and in fact, was a surprise to me! Early in the morning, I had been by the Starbucks at [...]

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A Starbucks sweepstakes: Enter to win a trip to Seattle!

April 3, 2012

I thought I’d pass along the fun link to a Starbucks-sponsored sweepstakes.  You can enter in to win a trip to Seattle.  Without any further hesitation, here is the link: http://starbucks.com/sweeps You can enter through April 30, 2012, and the winner wins a trip to Seattle with three friends, and the Grand Prize winner receives [...]

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The 2012 Starbucks Chalkboard Art Contest: Entries and Winners

April 1, 2012
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On February 19, 2012, I announced the second StarbucksMelody.com contest to find barista-created art on chalkboards on display inside Starbucks stores.  It has taken me a while to go through the emails, but here we have the entries and winners.  At the end of this blog article are a few of the “non qualified” entries [...]

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Featured Clover Starbucks: 60 Bedford Street in Lexington, Massachusetts

March 31, 2012

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m on a journey to write about as many Clover Starbucks locations as possible.  Next stop:  Lexington, Massachusetts.  I visited this store on March 27, 2012, and had a chance to meet up with the store’s manager, Adam. This was one of five pre-scheduled store visits on my [...]

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Shining a spotlight on the Evolution Fresh loyalty card: You can use it at Starbucks too!

March 30, 2012

Previously, I wrote about the new concept store by Starbucks called “Evolution Fresh.”  In my last article, I neglected to talk about the card that is available at Evolution Fresh, and so I want to shine a spotlight on that now.  In my opinion, it is just so cool that you can pay with a [...]

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Musings of a Starbucks museum and other ramblings

March 26, 2012

Hello all! Recently, my friend Rose and I were joking around that between the two of us, we could fill a museum full of Starbucks artifacts.  It’s probably only a small exaggeration.  While it is wholly unrealistic to think we’ll ever have a Starbucks museum, I thought it would be fun to think of all [...]

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Starbucks experiments with freshly baked in-store cookies and pastries.

March 24, 2012
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There’s something new baking at Starbucks: Palmiers, croissants, petite scones, and chocolate chip cookies! Starbucks is experimenting with having partners making baked goods in the stores!  It’s a very small test, and from what I know, at this time involves only two Starbucks locations.  The chocolate chip cookies are delicious.  I tried a chocolate chip [...]

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