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Re:Silicon Valley's Soft Landing by tacos on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:06PM (#10868688)
> it really seems like the same things are happening again

Indeed, Starbucks pulled almost the exact same thing in 2012 with Square:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/15/technology/square-starbucks/

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Re:Silicon Valley's Soft Landing by worried_citizen on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:21PM (#10869778)
> That appears to be an understatement. Square, which filed to go public Wednesday, said that it has lost a grand total of $71 million from processing Starbucks payments over the past three years.

This partner overall sounds better for sbux.

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