Archives for July 2017

The calendar is collaborating for this promotion. For the first week of August 2017 (1-7), they are bringing back the “After 2pm” Dash offer. As usual, you must first activate the offer for your account by clicking on the link in the email or the app. Once activated, you will earn 50 bonus stars if you make four separate purchases, OR 100 bonus stars if you make six or more separate purchases.

As before, the offer is stackable with any other promotions they may be running over there. And given how the two reward tiers are set up, once you get to four, you double the bonus stars by buying an extra two items.

Items paid with Rewards (as far as I can tell) do not count rewards-wise.

If you want to reach the Starbucks GOLD Rewards Level (that’s the best level with the most rewards), then you have a shortcut! Until the close of business on 7/31/17, if you make a purchase (any purchase) using their app or a registered gift card, you will be upgraded to the GOLD level. The offer is good for GREEN tier rewards members, and for brand new members as well!

PS: the page does not say whether existing GOLD members will get an additional year added to their membership, so assume it won’t.

A weekend trip at Starbucks? With free AC and free refills as a rewards member? If you check all of the above, check your emails or the Starbucks app for a new promotion that requires opt-in (pressing the “Join the Dash” email button). If you are eligible for this, you will earn bonus stars if you visit after 2pm local time during the weekend of July 28-30 in 2017. That’s Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Three separate transactions get you 25 bonus stars, but if you make five or more separate transactions, you’ll get 75 bonus stars! So if you get to three, it makes sense to make the jump to five! If nothing else, buy small things like the chocolate straw cookie thing, or the string cheese, which are under $1 each 🙂

In addition to the various other bonus stars promotions running, Starbucks has also launched their July 2017 Double Stars day. Per the email I received, it says it will be Wednesday July 26 (2017). I don’t know if every rewards member gets exactly the same day, or if they spread them out throughout the week or month. Regardless, check your email or the Starbucks app to verify that it is so for your account.

The Double Stars promotion do not require opt-in. They apply automatically as long as your account is eligible for them. With the two new $8-ish salad bowls/platters, the value of a Reward Star has increased, assuming you’ll redeem your free rewards on the new expensive $8 salad bowl.

As usual, Double Stars days are great for making your coffee beans, and coffee cups and tea bags, and other purchases that have a shelf life. You obviously can’t pre-buy hot coffee to drink for the rest of the way, but you can buy beans or K-cups to drink for the next few weeks 🙂

The summer is heating up and so are the various bonus rewards offers from Starbucks. In the latest offer, sent by email, and needing to be manually activated before earning a bonus, you get 100 Bonus Stars (that’s 80% towards a full reward) when you purchase one each from the following three product categories:

• any Evolution Fresh Juice (these are expensive!)
• any warm (non-breakfast) sandwich
• any breakfast sandwich

If you are not sure how the qualify the sandwiches, check the menu in their app or the big printed menu in their stores! The offer runs July 25-31. You only earn one 100 bonus during this promotional period, it does not roll and repeat.