Seattle’s Best Coffee Contest: FREE TRIP TO SEATTLE
Coffeesage.com readers have been invited to participate in a Seattle’s Best Coffee contest. First prize is an all expenses paid trip to the coffee capital of the US……….. Seattle!!!!
Seattle’s Best is celebrating their fan’s love of great coffee. They are now looking for their BIGGEST fan to join them for a first class coffee lover’s experience in Seattle. You can compete to win the free trip that will be the “ultimate coffee immersion” and a chance to become a Seattle’s Best Coffee Ambassador. The Ambassadors get the “low-down” on coffee news, prizes and other free stuff.
The contest runs through September 3rd. To enter, visit the Seattle’s Best Coffee Facebook fan-page and tell them why Seattle’s Best Coffee is the “bright spot in your day”.
Good luck and may the coffee be with you!!!
Starbucks Relaunches Seattle’s Best Brand
Starbucks has lost profit in these hard economic times due to cost competitors like McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. They have closed 600 stores in the past two years. They are now turning to Seattle’s Best, a company Starbucks acquired in 2003 to boost their revenue.
Starbucks is expanding the Seattle’s Best brand to more than 30,000 locations by September of this year. They currently sale the brand in approximately 3,000 locations. Seattle’s Best will be available at Burger King, Subway, AMC movie theaters, Alaskan Airlines, Border’s Bookstore, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, convenience stores, supermarkets, kiosks and vending machines, just to name a few.
Starbucks will also be giving Seattle’s Best a new logo and slogan. The logo will retain the red color to ensure some continuity for consumers. The slogan will be “Great Coffee Everywhere”.
To celebrate the Seattle’s Best relaunch, Starbucks sent a team of “red-capped invaders” to scale the Starbucks headquarters building in Seattle and “stealthily replace the famous ‘siren’ atop the clock tower with the new Seattle’s Best Coffee logo.”
Starbucks’ press team said the intention was simple: “To put Seattle’s Best on the map as the universal symbol for great coffee.” As symbolic gestures go, it doesn’t get much clearer than that.
Starbucks feels that the Seattle’s Best brand will put them on a more even footing with the lower priced coffee competitors like McDonald’s.
Starbucks Free Treats on Tax Day!
Tax day is not a day most people look forward to. Starbucks is trying to put a little spring in your step on the way to the post office. to drop of your taxes!
Get free brewed coffee all day Thursday at Starbucks if you bring your own mug, a promotion the cafe chain says is friendly to the environment as well as taxpayers.
Stop buy and get a caffine fix and some tax relief!
Starbucks to give Free Pastries
If you go to Starbucks and buy a coffee by 10:30 today, you will get a free pastry. Simply go to Starbuck’s Blog and print the coupon. If you do not have a printer handy, the baristas will accept the coupon on mobile devices. Offer is good for one free pastry per customer while supplies last.
Starbucks Introduces TRINTA
Americans love their coffee. It seems we can’t get enough of the stuff. Well, Starbucks is going to try to fill our unfillable thirst and addiction to java.
Starbucks introduced us to the 24 ounce Venti, but apparently that was not enough. They are now introducing us to the Trinta, which will bring us a full 31 ounces off caffeinated (or decaffeinated if you are so inclined) goodness fit to fill anyone’s habit, at least for the morning.The catch, your only going to be able to get the Trinta size in iced coffee drinks and teas. Also, since it is still in the test market stage, you will only be able to get the new size in Tampa and Phoenix.
Hopefully the Trinta will do well in the test markets and get adopted nationwide. Apparently the folks in Phoenix like it because Starbucks reports it’s doing well in approximately 280 stores in the area. Its great because you get 30% more caffeine without paying for extra shots, which I think should be mandatory in the morning and early afternoon, for me at least.
Time will tell how Starbucks will fair next to its biggest competitor as of late, McDonald’s, who sales a 32 ounce coffee for $1. I do not know the price point on the Starbucks brew, but I highly doubt it is economically competitive with McDonald’s, but the quality of the Starbucks brand and its minion of loyal followers are likely to get over the price point in a hurry. One things for sure, we at coffeesage.com intend to give it a try. The more the better! Bring it on Starbucks, and bring it nationwide!
Starbuck’s Via Instant Coffee Flops in NY
Starbucks failed to impress New Yorkers with their new instant coffee during its launch this week. Starbucks launched their Via Ready Brew, which is instant coffee in single packets, across the United States and Canada. It was price pointed at $1 per pack.
According to CEO Howard Schultz , “It took a lot of courage to say that even though instant coffee is the worst cup of coffee you can have, we are going to reinvent it.” One New Yorker told the Daily News that, “It’s bad,” while another observed, “You can get a cup of coffee for $1 on every corner of New York City that tastes better than this. Maybe it’s a product for people in other cities. I don’t see it selling here.”
So how will Via Ready Brew do in the rest of the United States and Canada? Time will tell.
Starbucks Takes Instant Coffee Nationwide
Few think of instant coffee when they think of Starbucks. Well, that’s about to change. Starbucks is launching their instant coffee nationwide in the US and Canada on September 29th.
Starbucks has been testing the product in Illinois and Seattle since February of this year. Howard Schults, CEO of Starbucks, said that they are “overwhelmed and humbled” by their customer’s response to the product.
The instant Starbuck’s coffee will be served in a single-serve packet, which will be sold in books of three for $2.95 or boxes of 12 for $9.95.
Starbucks Raising Prices
Starbucks prices will begin changing next week. The more elaborate and larger drinks will be more expensive, whereas the smaller, plain coffee will be 5 to 15 cents less expensive.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the prices will change as of Friday in a few markets, but will go nationwide within the following months.
Vinti drinks, the Starbuck’s large size, will be 5 cents to 30 cents more. This will also applyto some of the flavored Macciatos and Frappaccino’s. Extra shots of espresso will also be more.
Prices may not be consistant from store to store. The price will depend on whether the store is company operated or a licenced and depending upon which market the store is in.
Starbucks To Test Alcoholic Drinks
Starbucks is testing out alcoholic beverages, just not at its coffee shops. The company is testing out beer and wine along with live music in some stores in Seattle, that are not under the Starbucks brand. They are also hosting book and poetry readings. They are trying to get back to their roots.
Although the company that owns Starbucks will also own these stores, they will not bear the Starbucks name or logo. Just a neighborhood-inspired name that will appear also on bags of Starbucks coffee sold at the stores, though the bags will reportedly contain the same coffee as traditional Starbucks, according to the Seattle Times.
Mountain View Coffee Shop Employee Punched and Tip Jar Stolen
An employee of a Mountain View, CA Starbucks coffee shop was punched in the face Tuesday while trying to stop a thief from stealing the store’s tip jar, police said.
The employee, who was 19 years old, was leaving the Mountain View Starbucks, located at 1390 Pear Avenue after his shift when he saw someone exiting the building with the tip jar, according to Liz Wylie, the spokswoman for the Mountain View Police Department. When the employee ordered the man to stop he began running and the employee began running after him. When the employee caught up with the thief in the parking lot at 1625 Space Park Way, he was met by four or five of the thief’s accomplices, according to Wylie, who said the theirf moved toward the employee and “clocked him in the face.” The employee only sustained minor injuries. The men escaped by driving off in a red four-door Japanese car.
Police said that tip jars have been stolen from two other Starbucks stores in the area. Police do think these incidents are related.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12616725
Starbucks Recalls Coffee Grinder
Starbucks is voluntarily recalling approximately 530,000 grinders sold between March 2002 and March 2009 under the names of Starbucks Barista Blade Grinder and Seattle’s Best Coffee Blade Grinder .
Three incidents have been reported where the consumer received lacerations while cleaning their grinder. There have been 176 reports of the grinder turning itself on and off unexpectedly. Consumers should immediately stop using the grinders and contact Starbucks for a free replacement grinder at 866-276-2950 or look online at Starbucks Coffee Grinder Recall
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