Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Free pastry? :(
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Last week Starbucks announced an awesome promotion - a free pastry with the purchase of any drink before 10:30 in the morning. They sent email to people and posted notices on FaceBook and Twitter. Cool, right? All those salivary glands, mine included, anticipating the lovely morning treat that was maybe partly a "thank you" for spending foolish amounts of money for coffee. So my friend and I got off the train and went to Starbucks, all happy and excited. But, aha, you had to bring a coupon which, in fairness, was mentioned in the email that some people got and it did specify that you had to show the coupon or email, but it wasn't in boldface and judging by the comments on FB there were zillions of us (yes, us) who didn't know about the coupon having to accompany us. And there was no waiving it. And apparently some Starbucks said they'd run out of pastries for the giveaway even though the announcement specifically said the promotion included all the pastries. And the Hawaiian Starbucks were excluded from the whole thing, for some reason, again mentioned in the small print but without any boldface or colored text to make it really clear. Alas, so many sad coffee drinkers, so many disappointed Starbucks fans.

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