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Starbucks Is Getting Bashed For Using Ground Up Beetles To Color Its...
Starbucks is getting backlash from the vegan community after changing how it colors its Strawberry Frappuccino, reports Bruce Horovitz at USA Today. It's using ground up cochineal beetles. Gross,...
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Everybody's Trying To Make Chinese People Drink More Coffee
The big players in the coffee industry really want Chinese people to drink more coffee, and they're putting their money in the pot. They're desperately trying to create a coffee culture in China....
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Starbucks Doesn't Care If Its Brand Gets Shredded On Social Media
When Starbucks decides to take a stand, it goes all-in. It's notorious for making very public statements on issues that most brands would stay light years away from like gay marriage and gun control,...
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Seattle's Best Is Giving Away Free Coffee For Filing Your Taxes
If you're looking at a hefty tax bill this year, here's a small piece of comfort: Seattle's Best coffee is rolling out free coffee samples to 100,000 taxpayers over the next week. (Or so it says. We...
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Five Common Money Sayings And How They Got Started
You’ve heard them a thousand times: Cliches related to money and finance that have been uttered so often their meanings have become, well, meaningless. However, if you stop to consider the etymology...
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Here's How The Original Starbucks Is Different From All The Others
Starbucks has nearly 20,000 locations worldwide and seemingly has one on every street corner in the U.S., but it all started in downtown's Seattle's Pike Place Market. The first store opened in 1971...
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HOWARD SCHULTZ: These Will Be The Next Billion Dollar Businesses For...
Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz revealed his aspirations for the new businesses Starbucks has been working on in the company's Q1 earnings call. There are two in particular that Schultz sees...
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Here's The Longest, Most Complicated Coffee Order An Original Starbucks'...
A barista at the original Starbucks in Seattle has taken to Reddit to hold an open house about what it's like to work at the store. Among the questions he got: What's the longest, most complicated...
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JPMorgan, You're Embarrassing Yourself
Now this is just getting ridiculous... JPMorgan Chase, one of the lead underwriters on the highly anticipated Facebook IPO, has already adorned its midtown Manhattan office today with massive banners,...
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Why Starbucks Baristas Embarrass You In Front Of Everybody If You Don't Use...
Starbucks had a problem early on. Customers would take their time and toss a bunch of different terms at the baristas for their customized orders, and it was holding up the line. So, Starbucks decided...
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15 Crazy Starbucks Customers Who Will Make You Never Want To Be A Barista
The employees closest to the customer have to deal with the most crap. Starbucks baristas have to handle a particularly large amount of craziness in their always-busy stores. And with 20,000 locations...
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Reader Shares Guerilla Tip For Scoring Free Starbucks Drinks
If you're a regular Starbucks patron, reader danakscully64 has a tip on how you can save at your favorite coffee chain. She says: "If you go to Starbucks even semiregularly, register a gift card. Once...
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Starbucks Is Buying This San Francisco Bakery For $100 Million (SBUX)
Starbucks is laying down $100 million to buy San Francisco bakery chain La Boulange owner Bay Bread Group reports Lisa Baertlein at Reuters. Food has always been a problem for the world's biggest...
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The Top People In Tech Are Freaking Out Over Starbucks's $100 Million...
So Starbucks bought some little French bakery in northern California? Oh, non, my friends, non. If you want to understand the living, beating pulse of the tech world today, you must understand the...
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HOWARD SCHULTZ: Starbucks Is About To Completely Change The Way It Presents...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and his cohort got on a conference call with analysts shortly after the company announced its $100 million acquisition of San Francisco bakery chain La Boulange. He...
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A Major US Grocery Chain Has Bad News For Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (KR,...
This fall, Green Mountain Coffee Roaster's Keurig-cup patents fall, and The Kroger Company will be sure to capitalize. Earlier today, Kroger announced that it will start selling store-branded coffee...
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A Cup Of Coffee Now Costs More In Athens Than In Berlin
A new poll has found that Athens is the world’s 78th most expensive city for non-locals, making it more expensive than Berlin, which sits at 106th, ekathimerini.com reports. That the German capital is...
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The Price Of One Major Energy Commodity Is Doing Worse Than Oil Or Natural Gas
Coffee.* It's the world's go-to source of caffeine. And prices are down 31.6 percent since the beginning of the year. Only a handful of commodities have actually seen price rise since the beginning...
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THE ISRAELS: How This Legendary Family Went From Coffee Trading To Ponzi...
This week, Dealbook's Andrew Ross Sorkin caught up with convicted Ponzi schemer Sam Israel, and it reminded why his story is so crazy. It's not because he faked his own suicide or hid from the cops....
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This Coffee Chain Doubled Its Revenue By Choosing Not To Compete Against...
Blue Bottle Coffee founder James Freeman only uses vintage and Japanese machinery to slow-brew his coffee. "You have to know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy," Freeman tells us of finding these...
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