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The company said on Monday that as of July 1, its stores in the United States would offer free Wi Fi,
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Starbucks has been squeezed lately by competition from both independent specialty coffee shops, which have long offered free Wi Fi, and big chains like McDonald’s, which added it this year.
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Of course, people have been bridging those worlds for years, using coffee shops as pseudo offices by bringing their laptops and borrowing free Internet connections. But Starbucks has never offered unlimited free Internet access.
Customers who bought and registered a Starbucks card and used it in the last month have been able to use the Web for two hours, after a somewhat complicated log in process. Cardholders who wanted to use the Web for more than two hours paid $3.99 for another two hour session,
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The coffee chain is catering in part to people who are out of work and need a place to perfect their rsums or do freelance jobs. In January, the company announced that same store sales increased 4 percent after months of steady declines. Starbucks attributes the improvement, which came before consumer spending rebounded as a whole, in part to its role as an office for the unemployed.
The new partnership with Yahoo, which is called the Starbucks Digital Network, will include an online section on business and careers that will include tools for people searching for jobs or writing rsums, Mr. Gillett said.
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Many coffeehouses, including Grounded in the West Village, a storefront one block from a Starbucks, offer free Wi Fi to differentiate themselves from Starbucks.
"It’s definitely been an attraction," said David Litman, the manager of Grounded. Still, he said he doubted that Wi Fi at Starbucks would be a threat. "This is a very neighborhood place there is a Starbucks on the next avenue, but people like to support us."Related
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