A Starbucks Grande Caramel Frappuccino is typically listed at around $5.65 on the chain’s menu boards. These days, many customers pay about half that price.

For a grande-size brewed coffee, same deal: An average listed price of $3.65 rings up more like $1.83 with a buy one get one free offer.

After largely ignoring special deals for decades, Starbucks is now often selling coffee at a discount. The world’s largest coffee chain is trying to bring back lapsed customers, betting big on BOGO offers, supersize perks for loyalty members and other deals.

The company ran promotions for about half the month of May, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal. This month, for the first time in more than a decade, Starbucks began offering bundles of coffee and breakfast food starting at $5.

“50% off a drink. It’s on,” Starbucks said in a recent email to customers. “Keep checking the app all summer for more deals heading your way.” Surging inflation over the past several years is now spurring more Americans to rethink their spending on everything from food to furniture. Some consumers have been reconsidering their Starbucks habit. The average price for a grande brewed coffee earlier this year was $3.65—49% above 2020 levels, according to the market-research firm Technomic, which tracks prices at the chain. The chain’s U.S. traffic dropped 7% in the three months ended March 31 from the prior year, the biggest quarterly decline since at least 2010, Starbucks said. Its active loyalty-rewards users decreased by 1.5 million between Dec. 31 and March 31. This is why they are doing 50% deals to increase store traffic.

In this episode, we speak with Ph.D psychologist Ayelet Schafir Hirshfeld, owner of DiversITUS , a clinical psychologist practice in CA. They work with businesses, families and individuals. We cover: 1. Why people may still not want to gather with others in public spaces or events. 2. Why some employees want to remain at home and work virtually, post covid. Could it be fear of getting sick or convenience. 3. What potential trauma people can be carrying around post covid (i.e. fear of death), similarities to PTSD. 4. What could be leading people to wear masks in open air environments and using them while alone in a car. 5. The difference between a PTSD that is man made as a result of war vs one made through a natural disaster, like a flood. Some say covid was man made, some say it was natural. 6. We discuss the push back by millions on mandates by employers and by government on vaccine and mask requirements. You can connect with Dr. Ayelet Hirshfeld @ Website https://www.diversitus.org/

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In this episode we chat with Michael Campbell, Principal Consultant of ATT Cam Consulting that works in the pharma industry. Michael is a trained pharmacist and works on the business side of the industry. We discuss the current status of the pharmaceutical industry, prescription prices, the Rite Aid bankruptcy and other issues that affect the consumer.

We cover: Retail Pharmacies, big chains like CVS Hospital Pharmacies Independent Pharmacies Specialty Pharmacies Specialty meds

Pharmacy benefit managers and the role they play in the prescriptions space and how that affects what we pay at the pharmacy. Michael Campbell's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-campbell-pharmd-mba/

In this episode, we talk with John Buckley, master Rolex guru and a watch industry veteran of over 25 years. John is a partner in Vookum a wholesale watch company and owner of Tuscany Rose. We get his insights on the industry, cost of Rolexes, where to find reputable dealers who will sell you a genuine watch and not a knock-off. We cover how he started his business, why Rolex's are expensive in the secondary market, and also the Vookum Watch Show coming up Oct 22, 2023 in NJ that will have vendors selling, buying and trading watches.

Here's the YOUTUBE interview https://youtu.be/EI9JfNsI3MQ

Tickets for the show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vookum-new-jersey-watch-show-tickets-705004125317

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We reposted this interview as it was very helpful for those who listened and downloaded it Enjoy! __________________ In this episode, we cover how to sell to Chief Information Officers & Chief Technology Officers by chatting with Wendy Pfeiffer-CIO of Nutanix, www.Nutanix.com. Wendy leads the IT team at Nutanix, a publicly traded company with 7,000 worldwide employees. They’re an IT firm working with enterprise level clients providing hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) in a few verticals. They also support businesses via remote apps, data storage and networking technology. We cover: >How to sell to them (CIO’s *CTO’s) >How to approach them >The best way to approach them >How they make decisions >What they look for in a vendor

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Amazon and many other large companies are pushing workers back to the office. Productivity, brain drain and lost opportunities are the drivers. As well as getting rid of overhead of smaller regional offices .We posted a blog article on this in October 2020. Here's the article we wrote in Oct 2020. https://www.leaseasalesrep.com/working-remotely/