Reminder: the new Starbucks Rewards program is now in effect

If you are a member of the Starbucks Rewards program, today’s the day, they have switched over to the new Rewards program. You can still pay and earn rewards using the previous version of their app, but you need to update to the new version of the app (already available on Google Play, didn’t check iTunes) if you want to get your latest Rewards tally using the new system.

We broke down earlier on, it basically favors people who place orders with an average of $5 or more. Perhaps they did this to discourage the $2 coffee cup table squatters? Who knows 🙂

One way to counter the drop in benefits is to volunteer for coffee runs, but this is only beneficial if all the people pay you ahead of time or they are reliable with their payments for their drinks 🙂 Perhaps someone can start a “Coffee Dash” or “Starbucks Dash” service 🙂