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Starbucks Freezes Internet Coupons

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A small campaign aimed at bringing iced coffee drinkers to Starbucks in the afternoons and evenings backfired when their coupons quickly multiplied online.

report. Starbucks did just fine on the financial side anyway, with their most recent quarterly profits rising by 16 percent. Perhaps the giddiness of the profit increase along with meeting analyst expectations led the company to try to shift some of that interest in Frappuccinos to later periods in the day. The company sent out an undisclosed number of coupons to a few employees in the Southeast. Canada.com Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.

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