SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks is under criticism for releasing a healthy snack series of items that are two to 10 times more expensive than their commercial costs. Starbucks has a history of creating controversy over coffee prices that were significantly more expensive than the price of the beans used to make them. Starbucks’ new [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Drive-thru stores, which first appeared in the country some 20 years ago, are increasing in South Korea as more consumers are favoring the convenience of such retail channels, market watchers said Tuesday. U.S. fast food chain McDonald’s, which opened its first drive-thru store in the country in 1992, operates [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans love Ediya, a Korean coffee franchise, for its price and Starbucks for its taste. The Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) conducted a survey on 999 consumers regarding seven coffee franchises in Korea, and published the results on February 22. Ediya earned the highest score at 3.75 out of 5 for overall [...]
SEATTLE, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Starbucks and Match are offering singles new opportunities to connect at Starbucks. With more than 3 million members already listing “coffee and conversation” as one of their interests, starting today, Match members will now be able to use the “Meet at Starbucks” feature [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Lucky bags from Starbucks Korea sold out in only three hours, reflecting their huge popularity in Korea. Some customers even braved chilly temperatures to camp out in front of coffee shops in tents in a bid to buy the limited items. Starbucks Korea prepared 15,000 lucky bags, which contained [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumer prices of Starbucks coffee, Chilean wine, soda, beef and imported snacks in Seoul are the highest among other competing cities. Of note, the price of a Starbucks Americano is 2.3 times higher than that of New York. On January 12, Consumer Korea, a local civic group, released a report surveying [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Just three weeks after its rollout, more than 20,000 customers have already signed up for SK Telecom’s custom-tailored T Outdoor wearable device plan. The T Outdoor service is a rate plan for communications module-equipped wearable devices, and allows the user to take advantage of voice and data services without [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey by a specialty coffee franchise revealed that people enjoy a cup of coffee most after their lunch time. Starbucks Korea, to mark its 15-year anniversary in Korea, has conducted a survey of consumer consumption patterns on 30,000 visitors of its official Facebook page since last July, and revealed [...]
DALLAS, TEXAS, June 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–As Americans around the country grow increasingly frustrated with the partisan gridlock in Washington, a few mayors are looking to neighborhood Starbucks stores to help spark local action. Through the new Solutions City℠ initiative, mayors in five cities – Sacramento, Baltimore, Columbus, Orlando, and Phoenix – will bring together constituents and [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, the international media paid attention to the Seoul city government’s women-friendly parking spaces. The extra wide and long parking lots in pink lines with a female symbol which are closer to entrances and elevators add more convenience to women drivers. With the scheme first introduced in 2009, the [...]