A couple of months ago, I was stuck behind a woman trying to buy 15 gift cards for $10 each but purchasing them with other gift cards. The cashier ran into a problem because apparently you can't use more than a certain number of gift cards to make a purchase. To make a long story short, it took a loooong time for them to work out the problem and "cheat" the system. I wasn't in a big hurry that day and waited my turn. When I finally got to place my order, I was offered a coupon for a free beverage of my choice on my next visit. And when I used it, I actually had a 3 drink order, 2 talls and 1 venti... they gave me the venti free instead of one of the talls.
Now fast forward to last week... I stopped in before taking some GS cookies into work to distribute. I had quite a bit of singles, 5's and 10's on hand so I could make change if need be for the people paying for cookies. The manager noticed my money and asked if she could buy 2 tens from me. Sure, no problem... I still had the ones and fives for making change. When I picked up my drink, she gave me yet another free drink coupon for "helping" them out. WTH? All I did was give her 2 tens for a twenty... no biggie. But heck yeah, I took the coupon! :)
Then this morning, the cold weather had returned. So as I left work at 5 a.m. I stopped in at Starbucks for a Venti Non-fat, SF Vanilla, Chai Latte and the manager started talking to me and then offered me a "broken" donut. She said it was fresh, she just couldn't sell it. Well, okay... I just started exercising again... and not very much either, but of course, I took it. Come on... it was free! You never get anything free anymore! And it didn't hurt that I had just gotten off work... let me tell ya... that donut was gone by the time I hit the second traffic light.
Starbucks... for me... its a Good Thing!
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