Starbucks Rewards Double Stars coming this week

If you are a member of the Starbucks Rewards programs, pay attention to their emails and messages/notifications in their app. The monthly Double Stars day is coming this week. I don’t know if every customer gets the same day, or if they spread them around the week to balance the extra sales.

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Double stars means you get 4 Stars per $1 spent, instead of the usual 2 Stars per $1. What it means is that you get a free Reward for every $31.25 you spent. The stars are actually fractional, so you don’t lose any because of rounding numbers.

So strategically, you wait to make your big purchases on Double Stars Day. A pound of coffee, a new coffee mug, a box of tea, perhaps an $8 Powerlunch, and things like that.