Starbucks Serves Debit-card Sweeps

Starbucks Coffee Co. this week breaks a Meet Your Friends at Any Starbucks sweeps that will award a trip for four to any of Starbucks’ 7,000 stores in the world.

Customers are entered automatically in the sweeps each time they use a Starbucks debit card or Starbucks Duetto Visa card, through Feb. 17, 2004. Weekly prizes of $10 will be automatically loaded onto winners’ cards. Two grand-prize winners get trips for four, with accommodations by Hyatt and Westin Hotels & Resorts, as well as $50 loaded on their card each month for two years. Customers register their cards with Seattle-based Starbucks to participate in the sweeps.