Starbucks ‘gives away’ drinks after US system outage


  • TECH
  • Monday, 27 Apr 2015

FREEBIES: Thousands of people flooded Twitter to boast that they paid nothing for their caffeine fix, while others complained that they had not been so lucky and had been asked to leave the Starbucks store because it was closing early.

WASHINGTON: There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but fear not because there was free coffee supposedly going at Starbucks in North America on April 24 after a major computer glitch. 

Thousands of people flooded Twitter to boast that they paid nothing for their caffeine fix, while others complained that they had not been so lucky and had been asked to leave the store because it was closing early. 

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