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even starbucks wants a piece of the pokemons go phenomenon the coffeehouse chain announced that about 7,800 starbucks stores across the united states are becoming pokey stops or gym locations in the augmented reality mobile game and of course to celebrate the occasion there's a limited time pokemon theme drink the pokemon go Frappuccino is a vanilla based blended cold drink with raspberry syrup and blackberries so it's purple ah should have been yellow this isn't the first time a chain restaurant partnered with the Niantic game when it launched in japan three thousand mcdonald's restaurants in Japan also became gyms and the mobile carrier sprint it also announced that it's going to do the same thing more than 10,000 sprint and boost mobile stores are going to become pokey stops and Jim's beginning on December twelfth that's also when the game maker niantic will share details on new Pokemon characters that you can play in the game so why make a store a gym well you've seen the game you have to actually walk outside in the real world using your phone's GPS to visit these special spots to get points and fight your Pokemon in the game so if you turn a store into a gym maybe you'll also show up and buy something aha now you get it I'm Bridget Carey you can catch all the tech news at cnet com