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Starbucks Annual Price Increase Showed Up Early Thanks To Glitch

July 6, 2016

For the third year in a row Starbucks will dig its hands a little deeper into customers’ wallets, once again raising the prices for many drinks on its menu.

Starbucks announced the annual price increase over the weekend after the company’s computer system mistakenly entered the new pricing two weeks early.

The coffee giant says that a computer glitch resulted in customers paying about 30 cents more on average for their drinks last week, two weeks before the annual price increase was set to take place.

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