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Why Starbucks Loves Gift Cards

Danny Sheridan
Jan 23, 2020
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Source: Starbucks
Published: November 2018

Why Starbucks loves gift cards

Circulated: September 9, 2019

Gift card balances function as a loan to companies, such as Starbucks. Starbucks does not pay interest on balances held in the Starbucks app or on gift cards.

As of September 2018, Starbucks customers held $1.63 billion of gift card balances. When a card experiences “long periods of inactivity”, Starbucks recognizes this as breakage income. Customers are forgetful and can lose cards leading to $155.9 million of breakage income in fiscal 2018, or 9.6% of gift card balances.

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