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Morning Deals

By Ben Popken 8.6.08
  • Starbucks: $2 Grande iced drinks after 2pm with morning purchase
  • Tanga: Wireless Infrared Presenter with Laser Pointer for $9.99
  • Amazon: Men’s Dress Shirts from $9 + free shipping – Izod, Geoffrey Beene, Arrow, Van Heusen, Calvin Klein (selling out fast)

Highlights From Dealhack

  • Target.com: 15% off & Free Shipping on Lawn & Garden and Outdoor Furniture
  • Best Buy: Westinghouse 19-inch WS Dual Input LCD $140
  • eToys: Summer Clearance: Save up to 50% off Hundreds of Toys & Games

Highlights From Bargainist

  • Walgreens: Free film roll developing coupon
  • Levi’s: Up to 50% off summer favorites
  • Zales: $50 off $200 purchase coupon + extra 20% off clearance
By cwalters 7.30.08

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You Starbucks haters out there can rejoice, because the company just posted its first quarterly loss EVAR “of $6.7 million, or 1 cent per share, compared with a year-earlier net profit of $158.3 million, or 21 cents per share.” Store closures and restructuring are to blame, as well as the fact that nobody can afford anything anymore. [Reuters]

By cwalters 7.28.08

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Starbucks has changed its mind and will keep selling sandwiches after all. Now they’re looking at less stinky cheeses and less butter in an attempt to keep the smell from interfering with the coffee aroma. [Blogging Stocks]

Devastated Latte Lovers (Allegedly) Launch "Save Our Starbucks" Campaigns…

Devastated Latte Lovers (Allegedly) Launch "Save Our Starbucks" Campaigns…

By 7.21.08

The Wall Street Journal would have you believe that devastated Starbucks-lovers all over this nation are launching campaigns to try to save their “beloved” Starbucks. We’re not entirely sure that we believe this based on the single example given in the article, but we’ll play along…

A Complete List Of Starbucks Locations That Will Be Closing

A Complete List Of Starbucks Locations That Will Be Closing

By 7.18.08

Starbucks has released the complete list of stores that will be closing. You can browse the full list, organized alphabetically by state, inside.

Starbucks Charged Me Extra For The Vanilla In My "Vanilla Latte"

Starbucks Charged Me Extra For The Vanilla In My "Vanilla Latte"

By 7.18.08

Let’s say, hypothetically, that a regular latte at Starbucks costs $2.65. Let’s say that there’s a separate menu item posted called “Vanilla Latte” and it costs $2.95. Let’s also say that a regular latte with “syrup” (vanilla, for example) is $2.65 plus $0.30, or $2.95. Why then does a “Vanilla Latte” cost reader Jayne $3.25?

A List Of Starbucks Stores That Will Close By The End Of The Month

A List Of Starbucks Stores That Will Close By The End Of The Month

By 7.14.08

Starbucks is releasing the list of the first batch of stores that are getting the axe. These stores will be closing by the end of the month.

By 7.8.08

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Behold! A map of the Starbucks locations that are rumored to be closing. If you know of a location that’s getting the ax, you can submit your information to the Seattle Times. [Seattle Times via Starbucks Gossip]

By 7.7.08

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If you’re wondering which 600 Starbucks locations are going to be closed, well, you can just keep on wondering. [Bizjournals via Starbucks Gossip]

Starbucks To Close 600 Stores, Cut Up To 12,000 Jobs

Starbucks To Close 600 Stores, Cut Up To 12,000 Jobs

By 7.1.08

MSNBC says that Starbucks has announced that it will be closing 600 locations in the US and could eliminate up to 12,000 full and part-time jobs. Previously, the company had announced that it would close only 100 stores.

By 6.26.08

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Starbucks will ditch those CD spinner racks and instead concentrate on just four CD “slots” per store. This announcement comes after a NYT article claimed they were selling just 2 CDs per store per day. This is actually more than we thought they were selling, however. [Silicon Valley Insider]

Starbucks To Bring Back "Burnt" Coffee Due To Customer Demand

Starbucks To Bring Back "Burnt" Coffee Due To Customer Demand

By 6.20.08

Only a few months after replacing their “bolder” (some would say “burnt”) varieties of brewed coffee with the more “mild” (some would say “dunkin donuts-esque”) Pike Place Roast, Starbucks has announced that due to popular demand, they’ll be brewing some of the old stuff too.

Who Is $4 Gas Hurting? Starbucks!

Who Is $4 Gas Hurting? Starbucks!

By 6.19.08

A survey by Kelley Blue Book says that new car shoppers are giving up Starbucks to help offset the cost of $4 gas. Sorry, big green mermaid lady! The KBB study results reveal that 28 percent of new-car shoppers have stopped going to Starbucks or other coffee houses entirely, and 21 percent indicate they are going less often due to skyrocketing gas prices.

How Much Caffeine Is In Your Decaffeinated Coffee?

How Much Caffeine Is In Your Decaffeinated Coffee?

By JaySlatkin 6.19.08

How decaffeinated is your decaf exactly? That’s what Consumer Reports aimed to uncover when they sent their shoppers to sample 36 cups of decaffeinated coffee from 6 locations of Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald’s, Seattle’s Best Coffee, 7-Eleven and Starbuck’s near their headquarters in Yonkers, NY. See the results, inside…

By 6.17.08

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Starbucks’ “food chief” has resigned and has not been replaced. RIP, breakfast sandwiches. Did anyone actually eat those? Guess not. [WSJ]

By 6.9.08

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T-Mobile is suing Starbucks for allowing AT&T to supply in-store customers with free wireless Internet access using T-Mobile’s lines and equipment. [NYT via Racked]

CEOs Who Lost Their Jobs Talk About What Went Wrong

CEOs Who Lost Their Jobs Talk About What Went Wrong

By cwalters 6.6.08

Fortune’s new article “Lessons of the fall” is interesting and entertaining for two reasons. First, it humanizes brings a human face to the usually remote CEO, in this case the exes at Motorola, Starbucks, and Jet Blue. But more important if you’re a wage slave who can admit to a little schadenfreude, it describes how each man was fired from his job. Former Starbucks CEO Jim Donald, who’s in his fifties, says the hardest thing was letting his mother know:

Woman Protests High Gas Prices By Setting Fire To Gas Stations, Starbucks

Woman Protests High Gas Prices By Setting Fire To Gas Stations, Starbucks

By 6.6.08

Here’s a bad idea. Please don’t protest high gas prices by setting fire to a Chevron station, an Arco station, and a Starbucks. Meet Diane Craig, 64, of Danville, California. She’s accused of using “fireplace logs” to try to start fires inside the restrooms of the two gas stations and a Starbucks.

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