Starbucks said customers loaded $1.5 billion onto Starbucks Cards in 2010, a 21 percent jump over 2009.
In a real sense, the Starbucks mobile payment system is more about loyalty than "payments."
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Starbucks Mobile Payment System is Really About Loyalty
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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