Starbucks Rewards are back with another targeted food-centric promotion. You have to manually activate the offer if you are invited, so check your emails/app before making qualifying purchases. You get 150 Bonus stars (which translate to 1.25x Rewards, a pretty good bonus) if you buy one of each of the following items:

• Any Salad
• Any Bistro Box
• the “Sausage, Cheddar & Egg” breakfast sandwich

The offer runs Tuesday January 31st AM until the end of day on Monday February 6 in 2017, a full week. One time use per customer during this promotional period, so even if you buy 100 of each, you will only get a one-time 150 stars bonus. Bonus will be added to your account by 2/13/17.

Another offer is rolling out for Starbucks Rewards members via email. This offer too requires activation first (you just click on the appropriate spot in the email). This offer is more for people who already buy breakfast sandwiches because the bonus is fairly small…

If you purchase six breakfast sandwiches between January 24-30 in 2017, you will receive 60 Bonus Stars, in addition to the regular stars you receive on the purchase amount. You don’t have to buy them on separate days, I believe six individual transactions are all it takes. I’ve never tasted buying multiple quantities of the same item for these type of promotions, so I don’t know if that counts individually as well.

You only earn the bonus once during this promotional period, so whether you buy six or 500 breakfast sandwiches during this promotional period, you only get 60 Bonus Stars. The bonus will be added to your account by 2/6/17, but these days, they are pretty good at adding the bonuses quickly to your account.

PS: if you are not familiar with what qualifies as a breakfast sandwich versus a lunch sandwich, you can use their menu or the “Order” section of the Starbucks app to locate them. The cheapest option is the $2.95 Egg and Cheddar muffin.

This is an easy to way get 25 Bonus Starbucks Rewards stars, if you have been offered this promotion by email or through their app. All you have to do is place one mobile order between January 10-16 in 2017 and you score an extra 25 Bonus stars, in addition to whatever you get from the actual order. But first, you must activate the promotion in your account by clicking the appropriate button in the email. You will only get one bonus during this promotion. 25 points is 1/5th of a reward, that’s worth over $1.25!

The start of the year is raining Bonus Stars at Starbucks, probably trying to get a post-Holiday shopping surge for the new year. For Gold Members of their Rewards program (you have to make a certain level of purchases to qualify for the Gold level), January 9 in 2017 is a Double Stars day. You can earn those on all purchases made throughout the day. The usual exclusions apply.

Check your email/app to verify that are eligible. This offer does not require activation. You can also check right after you make a purchase, usually within a few seconds to minutes, you can see your new Stars balance in the Transaction History in the Starbucks app, so you can do the math and verify you are getting double stars because you go on a shopping spree 🙂

Another Starbucks Rewards YMMV offer is making the rounds. This offer too requires manual activation (sounds more complicated than it is, you just press one button). This is YMMV as usual since I have no way of knowing how many people are offered this.

You get 50 Bonus Stars (in addition to your regular stars) if you purchase TOGETHER a Shaken Iced Tea AND a Lunch item. This has to happen in the same transaction, not separately. Lunch items as they are defined for this promotion EXCLUDE breakfast sandwiches, which they are not considered a lunch item. You can use the menu in their app (mobile ordering section) to verify what is a breakfast item.

The rest of the food items qualify as lunch items: the prepackaged salads, the bistro boxes, the wraps, the paninis and the non-breakfast sandwiches. The time of the day you buy these does not matter. What decides it is the actual products you buy.

This offer runs for three days only, January 6-8 in 2017, but you can use it as many times as you like! 50 Stars are 40% of a reward, so assuming you spend your future rewards on $6+ items, it’s like getting the tea for free. You also earn the regular stars on the purchase and you should be able to combine it with the After 2 PM promotion.

Starbucks definitely wants you to visit their stores after 2pm. The Bonus Star dashes are evidence to this strategy as they have launched yet another “after 2pm” (local time) dash promotion. As usual, these offers may be YMMV, since I have no way of knowing whether they send them to everyone or a subset of their Rewards members. So check your emails and/or the app…

This promotion runs from January 4-10 in 2017, and qualifies you for the bonus on purchases made after 2pm local time. If you make four purchases, you get 50 bonus stars (in addition to the regular stars you earn on the purchase) or if you make six or more purchases, you earn 100 bonus stars. This is purchases, not visits, so if you sit at the store all day after 2pm and keep buying drinks and food, you can earn the bonus in a single day. The binge is on 🙂

You only earn a bonus one time during this promotion, so whether you make 6 or 600 purchases after 2pm local time between January 4-10 in 2017, you will only earn 100 Bonus Stars 🙂