Copley Square swag report
By adamg - Wed, 03/15/2006 - 9:20am.
Mabfan reports that the hawkers are getting really pathetic, like today's lone woman handing out free copies of the Globe wrapped in a Starbucks insulating sleeve (because the Globe news is hot, natch):
... If Starbucks really wanted to brighten up my cold morning, they wouldn't send a lonely woman out to the corner to pass out newspapers and the promise of free coffee. They would send out a cart at every corner, and give away free cups of coffee directly. ...
Constantine von Hoffman also found reason to be annoyed by the free-coffee promotion:
Starbucks to tea drinkers: Drop dead
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Bad promo, but hey, I enjoyed it
Last summer there was a Starbucks Doubleshot promo in which a guy rode around on a bike with a crate of them and handed them out. Only it wasn't a good "promo," because the guy rode around the Bullfinch Triangle area where I work EVERY DAY. I ended up with 2 or 3 each day, and coworkers who didn't like them started grabbing them, so we had a fridgefull for weeks. This didn't exactly convince us to start buying the product, you see...
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
Just like I will never buy a
Just like I will never buy a Quaker breakfast cookie.
Oh, and a friend of mine here at work just noticed that the free Starbucks coffee was FROM 10-12 ONLY. Doh.