The Starbucks associate selects mobile as the tender in the point of sale system (POS), and prompts the consumer to use the customer facing imager (the same as those used in airports to read boarding passes).
"The odds are 50-50 that they'll do it without a proxy fight or a tender offer at this point, " Owers says, with the odds of a less-than-friendly combination increasing every day.
For their big mid-winter party, they broke out that tender free-range lamb smoked over a dung fire to mark the halfway point in a long far northern winter.