{"id":5548,"date":"2016-03-01T22:33:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T22:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:11:03","slug":"linked-starbucks-changing-terms-of-rewards-program-starting-in-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/linked-starbucks-changing-terms-of-rewards-program-starting-in-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Starbucks changing terms of rewards program starting in April&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/khon2.com\/2016\/02\/22\/starbucks-changing-terms-of-rewards-program-starting-in-april\/\">KHON2<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>People will now have to earn 125 stars for a free item, with each dollar spent being worth two stars \u2013 meaning they have to spend $62.50 to get their free item. That means people who stick with options like plain coffee are losing out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For instance, someone who regularly pays $2 for a regular drip coffee would currently earn a free item after spending around $24 over 12 visits. Under the new system, they would have to visit more than 31 times to earn the perk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Someone who gets a large latte for $4.45 currently spends around $53.40 over a dozen visits before getting a free item. So that person would also need to visit a couple of extra times for the freebie with the new system.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Covered extensively on this blog. <a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/my-starbucks-reserve-gold-level-whats-the-point\/\">I believe this post<\/a> links to all of the historical Starbucks Rewards tiers starting in 2008 with the $20 black-card. The program has long been completely diluted. It was a really great program now they might as well just kill it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KHON2: People will now have to earn 125 stars for a free item, with each dollar spent being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T01:52:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"a92903d4-396b-47e1-a05e-c03a515231ca","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-10-17T19:11:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqSkD1DlrR-GgXsA6UVIxyg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1ru","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3839,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/the-new-starbucks-rewards-faster-than-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":5548,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 The new Starbucks Rewards (Faster than ever)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been almost three weeks since I posted this rant about how I believed Starbucks Rewards was becoming less appealing each year since its release in 2008. 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