Starbucks is making a popular add-on free of charge
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Your Starbucks drink with soy, oat, almond or coconut milk won’t cost you extra anymore.
Your Starbucks drink with soy, oat, almond or coconut milk won’t cost you extra anymore. Starting next week, Starbucks customers will no longer pay more for adding non-dairy milk to their orders. The company said the removal of the non-dairy milk surcharge means customers who request it will pay around 10% less than they did previously. Orders with milk substitutions have proliferated at Starbucks in recent years, alongside non-dairy alternatives in grocery stores. In 2021, Starbucks added oat milk to its menu. Non-dairy milk has become the second most common order modification at Starbucks, behind adding a shot of espresso. It’s one of several changes Starbucks has made under new CEO Brian Niccol, who took over the struggling company in September. Starbucks on Wednesday reported a third straight quarter of slumping sales and declining customer visits. Starbucks’ global sales at stores open at least a year dropped 7% last quarter, and the number of customer transactions fell by 8%.
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