Starbucks holiday launch
The holiday season is made brighter as Starbucks announces the launch of its long-awaited red cups along with an exciting holiday menu, marking the start of the festive season. This thrilling holiday preparation includes the popular holiday menu, a medley of both old favorites and innovative new to provide a more spirited coffee-cup run. Aside from the anticipated red cups, 2024’s holiday menu brings a lineup of holiday-themed refreshers and food items crafted to tantalize your palate. Among the notable offerings are the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher, the Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Refresher, the Cran-Merry Drink, all thirst-quenchers with a jubilant holiday twist. Couple this with the range of whole bean coffees, festive drinkware, gifts and returning customers’ favorites such as Peppermint Mocha and Chestnut Praline Latte and Starbucks certainly serves up an irresistible holiday treat.
Sustainable holiday practices
With the unveiling of Starbucks’ red holiday cups and the much-awaited holiday menu, the coffee giant also reveals its impactful drives towards sustainable consumer practices. Proactive in its mission to provide consumers with quality and eco-friendly services, Starbucks will remove the ad-on costs associated with non-dairy milk, emphasizing creating ‘fewer, better’ menu items. This admirable step forward in Starbucks’ sustainable outlook paves the way for enhancing consistency across drinks while decreasing preparation time. Through this, Starbucks aims to use ‘personal touches’ to draw back customers and regain its strong community connection, even invoking a sense of nostalgia with the reintroduction of Sharpies for writing customer names on cups. This combination of festive novelty and focus on sustainability underscores Starbucks’ commitment to its core values of creating a ‘welcoming coffeehouse’ where people unite over the finest coffee.
Football incident
On a somber note, Real Madrid’s heartening 4-0 win over Osasuna in La Liga was overshadowed by Éder Militão’s severe right knee injury. The Brazilian central defender, who played a pivotal role in Real Madrid’s Champions League and Spanish league victories last season after recovering from a torn ACL in his left knee, experienced another devastating anterior cruciate ligament rupture. This injury led to Militão being stretchered off amidst a stunned Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, casting a somber shadow over this season’s campaign, much like the ripped ACL suffered by team-mates Dani Carvajal, Courtois Thibaut and David Alaba last season. Further matches see new players debuting while the courageous injury-stricken heroes recover, accentuating the strong-willed spirit encapsulated within the football community.
