Seattle Starbucks tests $1 coffee and free refills
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Starbucks Corp  is testing $1 coffee and free refills in its Seattle outlets as the global gourmet coffee chain grapples with slower consumer spending and rising competition from fast-food rivals.
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InfoWorld - Starbucks has upgraded its Wi-Fi offering from a tall to a venti, switching partners from T-Mobile USA to AT&T in a deal that will mean free coffee-shop wireless for millions of U.S. broadband subscribers.
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Starbucks is opening a series of &quot;music bars,&quot; where customers can listen to digital recordings and burn their own CDs. The &quot;Hear Music&quot; coffeehouses will open in 15 Starbucks stores in Seattle starting Monday.
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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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MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. - The owner of a coffee stand north of Seattle is offering free coffee for a year to anyone who helps catch a robber.  Troy Malchow hopes the offer will create a buzz that finds the man who pointed a gun at him Wednesday at Perfetto Espresso.
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Thanks to an exclusive partnership between Apple and Starbucks, you can soon take a seat in a participating location andâusing an iPod touch, iPhone, or Mac or PC running iTunesâwirelessly browse, search for, preview, purchase, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks. No connection fee or login requiredâyour computer, iPod touch or iPhone will automatically recognize the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store as soon as you enter a participating location. The new âNow Playingâ service will even display the name of the song currently playing at the Starbucks youâre in. The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks makes its debut at 600 Starbucks-operated locations in New York and Seattle on October 2.
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Outside the Highway Junction Thrift Store, a thin film of gritty ash coated the bottom of a Mount St. Helens coffee mug. Price for the mug: $5.
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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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GREENSBORO, N.C. - When Charles Ruppert has a yen for a white-chocolate latte, he doesn't head to Starbucks . He goes to a McCafe in a McDonald's restaurant - and pays 26 percent less.
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SEATTLE -- Starbucks Corp. expanded its push into the entertainment business yesterday, launching a record label with the same brand -- Hear Music -- stamped on the compilation CDs it sells in coffeehouses.
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By Tom Krisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 4--Survey of coffee drinkers proves need for caffeine   What would you do for a cup of joe? Some coffee drinkers would go that extra mile for the fix, according to a survey.
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Starbucks is expanding its digital music service to coffee shops in Seattle and Austin, Texas, this month. The service, called the Hear Media music bar, will be available at 15 Starbucks stores in Seattle starting on Monday.
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U.S. consumers aren't going to balk   at paying an extra nickel for their daily cup of Starbucks   coffee despite high gas prices and other pressures on their   wallets, analysts said on Friday.
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Starbucks said it will give customers that use its purchase card two hours of free wireless access per day. After that, it will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session.
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Coffee shop chain Starbucks Corp.  said on Wednesday it will begin using paper coffee cups made  partially from recycled material by the end of 2005.
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Just when you thought Starbucks could go anywhere -- think again.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on 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.