A 23 year old New York paralegal is suing Starbucks for $114 million because the coffee chain abruptly cancelled its ill-conceived and hopelessly out of control offer of a free cold drink to anyone brandishing an e-mailed coupon.
From the Seattle Times:
Last month, Starbucks e-mailed a coupon for a free iced beverage to some employees and encouraged them to forward it to friends and family. Starbucks stopped honoring the coupon last week, a month short of its Sept. 30 expiration date, saying it had been “redistributed beyond the original intent.”
The lawsuit, filed in New York County Supreme Court, seeks $114 million in damages for a class that attorney Peter Sullivan figures will include a million New Yorkers.
Says Sullivan:
“In New York, this is of great significance to many people day-to-day,” he said. “There were lines of people outside Starbucks. There are a lot of upset people.”
In other news – news that I am certainly not juxtaposing with the above item in order to make a point – today is the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks that killed around 3,000 people in New York and damaged the lives of countless others in unimaginable ways.
(Via Consumerist)
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