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Thursday November 13, 2008
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 The new Starbucks Gold Card is touted by the coffee shop chain as being "for those of you we see every day. You're our heart and soul." (And financial backbone.) So nice that they give back, with 10-percent off most purchases (plus a free beverage on your birthday) when you purchase the card for $25 per year. Even better for the geekset: a gold card gets you 2 hours of free Wi-Fi every day at participating Starbucks locations.
It's not the only card Starbucks has with a Wi-Fi option. The Starbucks value card, which stores money just for spending at the shops, also gets you two free hours per day--as long as you use it once a month to make a purchase.
Starbucks Wi-Fi is powered by AT&T, so anyone with AT&T broadband at home gets free Wi-Fi full-time at Starbucks (and any other AT&T Wi-Fi location, like McDonalds). If you lack all of the above, it costs $3.99 per day to get access. T-Mobile users still get use of the Starbucks network through a roaming agreement, according to the Starbucks Website.
Posted By:
Eric Griffith
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November 14, 2008 1:40 PM
Starbucks is suffering. They could woo back some of their old customers if they'd decide to stop union-busting employee efforts to organize. Write to Starbucks and tell them you support the workers in Minneapolis and across the US:
President of Starbucks Coffee USA
2401 Utah Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
November 15, 2008 9:31 PM
Starbucks' problems aside, I sheepishly admit that I sprung for a Starbucks Gold membership. I'm in there all of the time getting breakfast or lunchtime coffees and drinks, I couldn't resist!
Between the discounts on their products and pumps in my drinks and the wifi, I really couldn't complain. :D
November 30, 2008 7:39 AM
Look,these people figured out how to make a
place to hang out and chill and drink
coffee...which means we don't have to
go to bars and get drunk and spend 3 times
as much and then kill someone on the
way home...like the OLD days.
Thanks Seattle!