Starbucks: Refills, out; device fills, in

Starbucks announced today that it will soon allow you to fill up your travel mug and your iPod.

Per Bloomberg, the Death Star of coffee will soon transition from CD burning (where the froth is clearly off the machiato, so to speak) to what Starbucks Entertainment president Ken Lombard calls “device fill up.”

Fascinatingly, today also brought news that new developments under way to match customer tastes across businesses, using knowledge of a customer’s tastes in, say, coffee to try to sell them music, for example.

Per the New York Times

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