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frontpage Posted by SlickActivity827 • Apr 19, 2022
frontpage Posted by SlickActivity827 • Apr 19, 2022

Starbucks Stores Offer: Bring A Clean Personal Reusable Cup When Ordering & Get

25 Starbucks Stars & $0.10 Off

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Starbucks Stores [Store Locator] is hosting their Starbucks: Reduce, Reuse and Rewards Offer and offering any Starbucks Rewards Member w/ 25 Starbucks Stars + $0.10 Off Their Drink when customers bring in a clean, personal reusable cup when ordering at a participating Starbucks locations

Thanks to community member SlickActivity827 for finding this deal

Note, be sure to sign up for Starbucks Rewards Member [Free to Join] before partaking this promotional offer.

These 25 Starbucks Stars can be redeemed for a free customization like an extra shot of espresso or dash of your favorite syrup or you can save them up (see below).

Choose when and how to redeem your Stars for free drinks, food, at-home coffee or select merchandise. Rewards can be redeemed at participating stores as follows:
  • 25 Stars: Customize your drink (make your drink just right with an espresso shot, nondairy milk substitute or a dash of your favorite syrup)
  • 50 Stars: Brewed hot coffee, bakery item or hot tea
  • 150 Stars: Handcrafted drink, hot breakfast or parfait
  • 200 Stars: Lunch sandwich or protein box
  • 400 Stars: Select merchandise or at-home coffee

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Customers must bring in a clean, personal reusable cup when ordering a drink to receive this promotional offer
  • To qualify for the reusable cup benefit, you must have made at least one Star earning transaction
  • Starbucks Stars (including partial Stars) earned toward free food and drink rewards will expires 6 months after they are earned
  • Offer valid only at participating store locations only
  • Offer valid on beverage purchase only (max 3 per day)
  • Offer valid while promotional offer last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Written by SlickActivity827
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Starbucks Stores [Store Locator] is hosting their Starbucks: Reduce, Reuse and Rewards Offer and offering any Starbucks Rewards Member w/ 25 Starbucks Stars + $0.10 Off Their Drink when customers bring in a clean, personal reusable cup when ordering at a participating Starbucks locations

Thanks to community member SlickActivity827 for finding this deal

Note, be sure to sign up for Starbucks Rewards Member [Free to Join] before partaking this promotional offer.

These 25 Starbucks Stars can be redeemed for a free customization like an extra shot of espresso or dash of your favorite syrup or you can save them up (see below).

Choose when and how to redeem your Stars for free drinks, food, at-home coffee or select merchandise. Rewards can be redeemed at participating stores as follows:
  • 25 Stars: Customize your drink (make your drink just right with an espresso shot, nondairy milk substitute or a dash of your favorite syrup)
  • 50 Stars: Brewed hot coffee, bakery item or hot tea
  • 150 Stars: Handcrafted drink, hot breakfast or parfait
  • 200 Stars: Lunch sandwich or protein box
  • 400 Stars: Select merchandise or at-home coffee

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Customers must bring in a clean, personal reusable cup when ordering a drink to receive this promotional offer
  • To qualify for the reusable cup benefit, you must have made at least one Star earning transaction
  • Starbucks Stars (including partial Stars) earned toward free food and drink rewards will expires 6 months after they are earned
  • Offer valid only at participating store locations only
  • Offer valid on beverage purchase only (max 3 per day)
  • Offer valid while promotional offer last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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I've been getting mixed reactions to my requests to use my travel mug instead of one of their paper cups on visits to Starbucks since they resumed allowing their use during the pandemic. Some workers refused to fill them even if clean and instead offered to give me the 10 cent discount but the coffee in a paper cup that I could then pour into my mug. Some made a face but agreed to do it but only if I put the mug in one of their large ceramic mugs so they wouldn't have to touch it, some were ok but insisted on rinsing my mug, with one even telling me that he'd have to first give my mug a thorough wash in the back where they wash everything, and it took them 5 minutes which I thought was weird and I would have agreed to if I knew it would take that long, and some just take the mug, fill it and hand it back to me.

You also usually have to remind them to give you the 10 cent discount, and they often don't know how to do it or say they did it but didn't. There is no consistent policy across stores or workers, and many don't know that you can use your own mug or that it gets you a 10 cent discount. Either Starbucks sucks at training or its workers just don't give a damn (which is part of why I rarely tip on drip coffee). Either way, I don't expect this to change because of this new policy and offer.

Workers are still going to have to hit the reusable mug button to get you the discount and points, and you're usually going to have to remind them to do it, which makes you look cheap and petty and forces the people on line to wait longer and roll their eyes in annoyance. Sounds more like a marketing thing than a way to actually get people to use their own mugs and invitation for yet more passive-aggressive underpaid and overworked worker behavior. I hope I'm wrong but only time will tell. It is a good deal though.
I know you say this to troll but I know plenty of people who wouldn't drink anything lighter than French roast. Taste is preference
They're letting us use reusable cups again?

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Apr 22, 2022
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neosaber78
Apr 22, 2022
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Quote from SnakePlisken :
What next, fix your own cup of coffee for another 10 cents off?
People would somehow feel like "OMG, Starbucks is so innovative!!!"
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morph2_7
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Quote from Honest-IJM :
I thought reusable cups were not sanitary? Do you just set it there, and they fill it up on the counter so they don't touch your cup?
They didn't touch my 16 oz tumbler. I put it in a plexiglass/plastic box (like their tip box). They touched the box, not my tumbler. -- I hope they didn't put cash in there before using it. I did see another box for tip.
Last edited by morph2_7 April 22, 2022 at 08:19 AM.
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Quote from morph2_7 :
They didn't touch my 16 oz tumbler. I put it in a plexiglass/plastic box (like their tip box). They touched the box, not my tumbler. -- I hope they didn't put cash in there before using it. I did see another box for tip.
Good to know, so my cup sits in a box that everyone else's cup sits in? I'll pass.
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Quote from bajanboy5809 :
I read a story awhile back about some guy in the military that never washed his coffee cup ever his entire career so that should give you your answer. LOL
The story I read was that a young proactive soldier noticed his commanding officer's dirty coffee mug and so he cleaned it. But once the commanding officer found out, he got really mad because he had "seasoned" the cup over 20+ years.
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If anyone is curious it did work. It takes a little bit for the stars to load, but I did get the 25. I also got 10 cents off. I have no idea why all the discussion about cups. They took mine with no problems, but my was obviously clean. I also ordered tea, so the cashier is the one who did my order which might be why I had no weird issues.
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Quote from myrep :
more like saving the coffee 'bean counters" their job for another month.

Drive up in your eco Tesla (Chinese lithium strip-mined) car and purchase an eco-cup coffee (harvested by 12 year old Columbian slave labor)

Ah, nothing like saving the planet!
Yea, why drive a Tesla and use a reusable cup when you can be coal rolling a jacked up F150 and drinking 60oz coke? USA! USA!
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How do they determine how much to fill up a customer's own reusable cup?
Let's say you order short or tall size coffee or americano but bring in a 20 oz cup.

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I went to my local starbucks earlier and was able to use my own cup and get the stars successfully. They weren't allowed to touch my cup so they asked me to take the lid off and place my cup in a ceramic mug. They made me my drink without touching my cup at all and then put the mug out when it was finished so that I could pick it up from the mug and place the lid back on. I had ordered a grande but because my cup was a 24 oz cold cup they just filled it to the top.
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Quote from Spontaneous1 :
I went to my local starbucks earlier and was able to use my own cup and get the stars successfully. They weren't allowed to touch my cup so they asked me to take the lid off and place my cup in a ceramic mug. They made me my drink without touching my cup at all and then put the mug out when it was finished so that I could pick it up from the mug and place the lid back on. I had ordered a grande but because my cup was a 24 oz cold cup they just filled it to the top.
So if we have a bigger reusable cup, they will always fill it up?
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Quote from ScarletNarwhal408 :
This is why I aeropress
Which has what to do with when you want to go out for a coffee with friends or to do some work away from home?
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Quote from KMan :
Which has what to do with when you want to go out for a coffee with friends or to do some work away from home?
You use a disposable cup and spend the extra .10
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Quote from ScarletNarwhal408 :
You use a disposable cup and spend the extra .10
Which has what to do with the comment I responded to? Is April 22 Non-Sequitur Day?
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Quote from donkinuts :
How do they determine how much to fill up a customer's own reusable cup?
Let's say you order short or tall size coffee or americano but bring in a 20 oz cup.
Quote from Spontaneous1 :
I went to my local starbucks earlier and was able to use my own cup and get the stars successfully. They weren't allowed to touch my cup so they asked me to take the lid off and place my cup in a ceramic mug. They made me my drink without touching my cup at all and then put the mug out when it was finished so that I could pick it up from the mug and place the lid back on. I had ordered a grande but because my cup was a 24 oz cold cup they just filled it to the top.
Quote from BrightCemetery5374 :
So if we have a bigger reusable cup, they will always fill it up?
I usually bring my 20oz Contigo mug but often order a tall because I don't feel like drinking more coffee. They usually fill it to what they think is a tall cup amount of brew, several inches below the lip. I don't expect more since I'm not paying for more. But if I ask for a refill, to go, which I'm entitled to when I use the app (it's for the following morning as I hate making coffee), they usually fill it to the top. Go figure.

Another weird anomaly. If you try to order a decaf using stars and they don't have any decaf brew, they'll charge you 150 points since it's hand-poured or made Americano-style. But if you order a regular, drink or dump it out, then ask for a decaf refill, you'll only be charged 50 points for the original regular. Go figure.

I've picked up these "hacks" over the years. Like you can order lots of extras with a brewed coffee if you use stars and you'll still only get charged 50 stars.

Starbucks makes most of its money on overpriced for-pay custom drinks and food so they don't care about "losing" money on these piffles.
Last edited by KMan April 22, 2022 at 06:38 PM.
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Why not make self service fill Station and charge people 10 cent less per order to fill up their cup on their own instead of handing your disgusting mug to barista who will be touching many others and putting other people's lids after touching nasty cups people bring.

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Quote from GeminiiGirl :
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To qualify for the reusable cup benefit, you must have made at least one Star earning transaction. Valid on in-store beverage purchases only (max 3x per day).


i did read a while back Starbucks is trying to eliminate cups all together and have everyone bring their own. then if they dont have one they get charged to rent a cup.
Considering that Starbucks is a status symbol which is only worth getting if your peers know you have it, this would be an interesting move since those branded cups are effectively the backbone of their business. Watch them release a line-up of reusable cups which cost progressively more depending on tier in order to tap into that juicy, status-fueled class divide we have right now. What better way to advertise your level of disposable income to those around you than through purchase of marked up milk and beans? They could even embed membership info into each cup to both authenticate your status and enforce the exclusivity of their cups. All under the guise of "going green"

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