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Moms group sets 'Skip Starbucks Saturday' boycott for August 24 23 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
A group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is trying to pressure Starbucks to change its current policy which allows customers to carry loaded guns into its stores in states where that...
La Boulange bakery goods come to Starbucks stores in Chicago 21 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
Time Out Chicago magazine taste-tested the goods on La Boulange's debut in the Windy City. Here's what they said: Reduced-Fat Pumpkin Cream Cheese Loaf Cake: “This is like the pumpkin spice latte in...
Study: Starbucks in Boston provides a more welcoming environment than indie coffee shops 20 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Anthropologists from the University of West Virginia went to Boston and observed what was going on a three different Starbucks stores and three locally owned independent coffee joints. They focused o...
Starbucks can't get Google Wi-Fi in its stores fast enough! 15 Aug 2013 | 06:01 am
Starbucks WiFi -- frustrating customers for years -- prompts daily tweets from people who can't take it anymore. Every time I bring up this issue of super-slow Starbucks Wi-Fi, the SBUX Kool-Aid Drin...
Starbucks in Newtown closes early after pro-gun and gun-control advocates go at it 12 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
Friday was declared "Starbucks Appreciation Day" by gun advocates who urged others to take their guns to Starbucks and enjoy a coffee. The Starbucks in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people died in a school...
Gun owners plan to pack heat at Starbucks on Friday 9 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
Gun owners are planning to take their guns to Starbucks on Friday as part of an “I Love Guns and Coffee” campaign. They want to show their appreciation for Starbucks' policy that lets customers carry ...
Human rights commission backs Starbucks in banning woman from store 7 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
Azadeh Azad went to a Victoria, B.C. Starbucks to write on her laptop every day. At one point she started taking her "daylight" lamp with her, which at least one customer found annoying. (The woman sa...
Good riddance, AT&T! Starbucks teams up with Google to offer super-fast Wi-Fi 31 Jul 2013 | 06:24 pm
Starbucks' Wi-Fi will be 10 times faster once the stores' networks are upgraded. Slow-as-syrup AT&T is out, and Level 3/Google is in. Starbucks chief digital officer Adam Brotman finally got word tha...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz cites 'enthusiastic response to our La Boulange bakery items' 29 Jul 2013 | 03:16 am
From the July 25 Starbucks conference call with analysts: "Our lunch offerings continue to expand in popularity. While Howard mentioned the enthusiastic response our La Boulange bakery items are rece...
I thought it would be more: 10% of Starbucks orders are paid for with a smartphone app 27 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm
Starbucks says that more than 10% its payments in the US are made using smartphones -- about four million transactions per week. "The coffee behemoth enjoys a loyal, more tech-savvy crowd than many ot...
