Starbucks Gossip

Starbucks customers can now use the iPhone payment app at 1,000 Target stores

Until now the Starbucks payment app was usable at only a couple of dozen locations in Seattle and at the epicenter of the tech world. Question for baristas/customers in Seattle and other app-usable cities: HOW IS THIS PAYMENT METHOD WORKING FOR YOU? || Read "Starbucks payment app goes viral"

"Ten Things You Don't Know About Starbucks (But Should)"

This list doesn't reveal anything new to true Starbucks fans and employees. One of the items, I'm pretty sure, is wrong. Starbucks never "tried to publish a paper version of Slate." It had a magazine -- Joe, right? -- but Microsoft was the first Slate publisher. || Read "Ten Things You Don't Know About Starbucks"

Weekend OPEN THREAD: Discuss *anything* about Starbucks

Have something you want to get off your chest? A complaint about a customer or a barista? Or have a question about a Starbucks drink? Anything is open for discussion in the weekend OPEN THREAD. Let's get the chatter going! || Jump to the third page of comments.

Is Starbucks going to buy Jamba Juice? (Neither company will comment)

Shares in Jamba Juice jumped today on speculation that it'll be bought by Starbucks. Read "Jamba shares jump after speculation of Starbucks takeover"

Howard Schultz tells shareholders that "the company is extremely healthy and robust"

The CEO said the coffee chain's ambitious turnaround effort sliced $580 million from its expenses and the turnaround is now taking hold. "Growth was covering up mistakes," he told investors. "But we cleansed ourselves of that and we began to understand that we not only had to fix the mistakes but also start righting the ship. ... We realized we had to fundamentally transform the company by taking out cost." || Read "Starbucks to pay first dividend, expands buyback"

Reporter calls b.s. on Howard Schultz's shareholders meeting comment about guns

Melissa Allison, who covers Starbucks for the Seattle Times, tweets: "Why does Schultz keep saying loaded guns aren't allowed in stores? They are here [in the state of Washington] if [Starbucks'] policy is to abide by the law." Read more of Allison's annual meeting tweets.

Starbucks to pay 10-cents-per-share cash dividend to shareholders

Starbucks says its dividend is its first paid in cash to investors. It will be paid on April 23 to shareholders who own stock April 7. Read "Starbucks to pay its first dividend" || Press release
> Watch today's Starbucks annual meeting (it starts at 1 p.m. ET)

How is Free Pastry Day going at your Starbucks store?

Were customers without the coupon demanding free pastries? (Did you "Just Say Yes"?) Tells your Free Pastry Day stories here.

Starbucks wants shareholders to vote "no" on activist group's recycling proposal

The environmental activists at the As You Sow Foundation in San Francisco are pressing Starbucks to take more steps to recycle its bottles, cans and cups and to increase the recycled content in containers. Shareholders will vote on the group's proposal at Wednesday's annual meeting. Starbucks wants them to turn it down, because it "wants to focus on things we have the ability to control." || Read "Starbucks' shareholders will vote on plan to expand company's recycling"

Let's get the weekend OPEN THREAD going!

Have something to say that isn't covered by one of the recent themed posts? Here's your chance to spout off or ask questions about anything Starbucks-related. || Jump to the second page of comments.