Starbucks to up noncoffee merchandise for holidays
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Starbucks Corp.  -- home of  the &#36;4 cup of coffee and white chocolate mocha frappuccinos --  is on a mission to boost sales of glittery snow globes and  other noncoffee items.
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Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in more than 7,000 of its U.S. coffee shops beginning this spring.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O said on   Thursday that sales at its coffee shops open at least 13 months   rose 5 percent, helped by sales of coffee drinks and additional   food items.
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Starbucks Corp.  on Thursday raised its long-term expansion goal to 40,000 stores from 30,000 and said it was nowhere close to exhausting opportunities in North America, even as possibilities appear internationally.
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Don&#39;t expect higher gas prices to dull gift-giving this year: Consumers plan to spend a bit more on holiday gifts and merchandise, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it will replace whole milk with 2 percent for espresso drinks in all of its U.S. and Canadian stores by the end of the year.
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Starbucks Corp. on Thursday said it plans to offer hot breakfast sandwiches in most of its U.S. stores after testing the products in cities like Seattle and Chicago over the last several years.
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Starbucks Corp. on Thursday raised its long-term expansion goal to 40,000 stores from 30,000, and said it was no where close to exhausting opportunities in North America even though growth also looms internationally.
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Products coming this holiday season also include new photo printers.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on  Wednesday reported a 31 percent increase in quarterly net   income and raised its earnings forecast for the year on strong  sales of holiday products like Christmas Blend coffee beans.
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Starbucks Corp. Wednesday said customers will be able to make custom music CDs at 45 of its US coffee shops by later this month, the first step in a plan to expand the service nationwide.
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TORONTO (CP) - With the economy in good shape, interest rates low and about 200,000 new jobs created this year, Canadians have increased their holiday shopping budgets and should be ringing up good cheer for long-suffering retailers this month.
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Forget the foam and make that latte skim, and sugar-free. Right now, Starbucks stock is really out of shape.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on  Wednesday reported higher quarterly net income and raised its  earnings forecast for the year on strong sales of holiday  products like Christmas Blend coffee beans.
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Starbucks said Monday that it plans to give away about 50 million songs from iTunes as part of a promotion to drum up interest in its wireless music service that will debut soon.
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Forget frozen turkeys or ham, many  U.S. workers this year can expect to receive a retailer's gift  certificate as their holiday bonus.
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Starbucks is pushing its new digital music offering into Seattle and Austin in the next month.