--- title: Starbucks To Sell Alcohol Booze on Menu description: Starbucks will start selling alcohol at thousands of locations. canonical: https://time.com/32543/starbucks-is-going-to-start-selling-booze-almost-everywhere/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-20T20:28:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:00.125Z og:title: Starbucks is going to start selling booze in thousands of locations og:description: Starbucks will start selling alcohol at thousands of locations. og:url: https://time.com/32543/starbucks-is-going-to-start-selling-booze-almost-everywhere/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34f38e5f9998d9d6/6986867835ba6fd55cc0115b/4770926411.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Starbucks og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Starbucks is going to start selling booze in thousands of locations twitter:description: Starbucks will start selling alcohol at thousands of locations. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34f38e5f9998d9d6/6986867835ba6fd55cc0115b/4770926411.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Starbucks Is Going To Start Selling Booze In Thousands of Locations by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 20, 2014 8:28 PM UTC  A customer drinks a coffee at a Starbucks Corp. store in Gimpo, South Korea, on Friday, March 7, 2014\. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg A customer drinks a coffee at a Starbucks Corp. store in Gimpo, South Korea, on Friday, March 7, 2014\. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/BloombergBloomberg/Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 20, 2014 8:28 PM UTC Pretty soon, people will be able to buy a glass of Malbec every two blocks. Why? Because Starbucks is expanding its alcohol menu to thousands of stores, [_Bloomberg_ reports.](http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-19/starbucks-says-mobile-payments-gaining-amid-growth-beyond-coffee) This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon. Starbucks started testing alcohol sales in Seattle in 2010 and expanded testing to 25 locations in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta in 2012\. Since testing proved successful (for obvious reasons), the chain decided to do a rollout over the coming years. This news follows a different big Starbucks announcement that Oprah is going to start selling her own line of chai tea because, [as Oprah said in the statement](http://time.com/31000/you-get-a-cup-oprah-now-has-a-starbucks-line/), “I looove tea.” Maybe she’s been testing the wine product in Chicago locations. Starbucks says it will role out to 40 locations by the end of the year, but it could reach 2,000 in coming years. \[[_Bloomberg_](http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-19/starbucks-says-mobile-payments-gaining-amid-growth-beyond-coffee)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/32543/starbucks-is-going-to-start-selling-booze-almost-everywhere/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/32543/starbucks-is-going-to-start-selling-booze-almost-everywhere/"},"headline":"Starbucks Is Going To Start Selling Booze In Thousands of Locations","datePublished":"2014-03-20T20:28:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:00.125Z","description":"The company has been testing alcohol sales in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta and will expand the offering to thousands of stores around the country over the next few years. 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