July 28 – August 7: Bonus Stars on packaged coffee and VIA Refreshers

Things got quiet with the special offers during the transition from spring to summer at the Starbucks Rewards, but they are back now with a new promotion, emailed to Rewards members. Note that I have no way of knowing what percentage of participants are receiving this email offer.

This is an automatic offer, you don’t have to opt-in or use coupon codes. It just happens if you are invited to participate and purchase the qualifying items during the promotional period as shown below:

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This offer, running July 28 to August 7 in 2016 focuses on prepackaged coffee and refreshers. The more you buy, the more bonus stars you get. If you buy three of them, you earn 150 Bonus Stars, which are the point-equivalent of 1.2 actual rewards, not bad, considering a reward can be redeem for items costing $6+. If you buy two of them, you get 75 points, not bad. If you only buy one, you just get a miserable 25 points 🙂

This offer can only be used once per account, it won’t roll around if you buy more than four during the promotional period. The bonus stars should appear in your account by 8/17/16 if all is well.

Per the email, their definition of packaged coffee is: “Whole Bean, Ground, Starbucks VIA Instant Beverage, K–Cup packs and Verismo pods”.