This truly baffles me:
Setting aside us all bitchin' about Starbucks (let's take that as read, shall we?), they have a card which you can get instore and 'credit' using cash - like a mobile 'phone top-up card.
So you put £10 on it, say. You can only use it in Starbucks. You buy a coffee (or what they call coffee) and you hand over the card and your card is processed and debited.
You get no discounts or anything like that, you pay regular prices.
So what's the bleedin' point? Why go through the rigmarole of tying up your £10 in a one-outlet shop card when you could - much more easily - just hand over your tenner and get the change?
Starbucks advertise it as the 'easier way to pay' - how the hell is it easier than handing across some cash? Or even your debit card?
We know why Starbucks might want you to have it, but can anyone explain why a sane person would want this card?
2007-04-12
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