You can’t stop Starbucks; you can only hope to contain it

Two of nature’s most unstoppable forces — Starbucks and iTunes — continued their hand-in-hand march to total global saturation. You may recall that, last month, Starbucks stores in Seattle and New York began offering special iTunes Wi-Fi Store connections as part of the partnership twixt the coffee retailer and Apple. Well, Wednesday, it was San Francisco’s turn to join in the frappuccino-soaked fun, as my colleague Jonathan Seff reports over at Macworld.

The 350 stores in the greater San Francisco Bay Area join the 600 in New York and Seattle. And according to Jon’s report, that’ll just about do it for Wi-Fi Store-equipped Starbucks in 2007 — look for Apple and Starbucks to resume rolling out the service to L.A. and Chicago next February.

Category: News, Wi-Fi

Posted by Philip Michaels on Nov 7 2007, 6:28 PM ET

Comments (3)

The iTunes wifi store has spread a bit further than Seattle in Washington State. I live in Whatcom County north of Seattle at the Canadian border. The wifi store has been available in all the Strabucks here for quite a while now. I've managed to collect about 10 of the Song of the Day freebies.

Posted by Beverly Martin | November 7, 2007 6:52 PM

It won't make any difference here in the NE until they roll it out to Dunkin Donuts ;-)

Posted by Judge | November 8, 2007 11:55 AM