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Outrage over the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks wounded the reputation of one of the most progressive companies in America. Now Starbucks has a bold plan to make things right: It will close 8,000 stores for one afternoon in May to teach employees about racial bias. Communications ...

In November 2015, Starbucks received backlash on Facebook FB, -1.36% and Twitter TWTR, -0.94% when it replaced its annual “symbols of the season” Christmas cup design with a simple two-tone red cup. (In May 2015, a diversity-awareness campaign in which baristas were encouraged to write “race ...

The 25-year-old woman from McRae-Helena discovered the camera around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Starbucks on 2705 Old Milton Road, police said. The camera was taped under the baby changing station. “We were quite concerned to learn this and are grateful to our customers and partners who ...

The site was down most of Tuesday, the deadline for taxpayers to file their 2017 returns. Procrastinators were given an extra day to file. • Starbucks will close its 8,000 U.S. stores for a day next month to conduct anti-bias training, after the arrest of two black men at one of its outlets prompted outrage.

How to describe Starbucks' new Cold Foam? It's looks like the head on a Guinness beer, but it doesn't dissipate and dissolve into the rest of the drink. It has a similar mouthfeel to the marshmallow topping of a key lime pie, but it's easily sip-able. And it has a name that evokes the villain of a Michael Crichton ...

Starbucks to close stores to conduct racial-bias education. 1:48 PM ET Tue, 17 April 2018. CNBC's Kate Rogers reports that Starbucks will close all coffee stores on the afternoon of May 29 to conduct racial-bias education to all employees. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

An Arizona teen on horseback was denied service at a Starbucks drive-thru, but got a do-over a couple days later. (KABC). KABC. Thursday, March 08, 2018 03:26PM. ANTHEM, Ariz. (KABC) --. Aspen Cline says her birthday trip didn't quite go as planned. She had seen videos all over the internet of horses in the drive-thru ...

BED-STUY -Starbucks, often seen as synonymous with corporate expansion and gentrification, is coming to Bed-Stuy—and so far, it's being welcomed with open arms. The global coffee chain is bringing its first location to Bedford-Stuyvesant, using a model that will employ 95% local residents at the store ...

What is now a financial institution will likely become a second Starbucks serving German Village. The current Education First Credit Union at 399 Livingston Ave. is set to be converted into multiple new uses. The lender plans to move into Downtown and open a new branch and headquarters in the ...

Starbucks—just in time for International Women's Day—has announced it will launch an effort to empower 250,000 women and their families in coffee and cocoa-growing regions by 2025. The new strategy comes in partnership between the Starbucks Foundation and Malala Fund, the organization run by ...

And apparently, those profit-seeking efforts include messing around with how people scrub their free Wi-Fi while inside a Starbucks store. Currently, a customer enters the Starbucks Wi-Fi by visiting a special page and accepting terms and conditions of use. But according to Starbucks Chief Financial Officer ...

Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz shared his vision of the challenges facing America with the Rotary Club of Gastonia in an unexpected visit to the city Thursday afternoon. A billionaire several times over, Schultz, 64, kept returning to the themes of economic justice, of corporate responsibility, ...

The other day I did something very out of character: I went to Starbucks. I walked in, perused the large sprawling menu, and uttered the words, “I'll have a blonde espresso, please.” I did it for science. I wanted to know what the big deal was, and why the $27 billion company was trying to offer such a product, ...

When Aspen Cline wanted to celebrate her birthday by placing her Starbucks order on the back of her horse, Scout, she was refused service by the barista working the drive-thru window at the Anthem, Ariz., location. “Starbucks in Anthem refused to serve us or even take our order,” Aspen's mother, Tandy ...

Starbucks is opening up the doors of one its coffee farms to give the public a chance to see how it sources its beans. About 45 minutes from the Costa Rican capital of San Jose sits a nearly 600-acre coffee farm called Hacienda Alsacia. Starbucks purchased it in 2013, and has used it as a global research ...

An Arizona teenager accuses Starbucks of discrimination. Aspen Cline says they refused to serve her Frappuccino when she rode through the drive-through on a horse. Starbucks tells a Phoenix TV station the order was refused for safety reasons. Now, riders have been served at other Starbucks, but come ...

Starbucks introduced almond milk to its menu in 2016 and has since released several plant-based beverages, including last summer's four-drink collection it launched to promote Lady Gaga's anti-bullying organization Born This Way Foundation. In November, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson announced that ...

She wants her coffee shop back, and she wants Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to know it. The Starbucks store at Sea Turtle Marketplace burned Jan. 21. It was in an old bank building, with the novelty of a vault room complementing its overstuffed chairs and sofas. It was kind of like a hip living room filled ...

The planned site for the new store is across the street from a former Starbucks location at the Chalet Place shopping center at 56th and Summitview avenues. Starbucks closed the store last July. The Chalet Place store space currently houses Newsroom, a cafe that sells various coffee and food items.

Editor's note: This was contributed by Clement Ledormeur, Digital Project Director at digital agency 31Ten, and Vladimir Garnele, UX-UI designer and partner at 31Ten. Starbucks released its brand new website solely for China on February 27th, a strong step forward in its “digital flywheel” strategy ...

It's the first of up to 1,000 such high-end stores Starbucks has said it plans to open as it spends big on an expansion toward a higher-end, fuller-service part of the food and beverage market. Starbucks founder and chairman Howard Schultz sees falling rents in premium retail locations easing the way for his ...

Drivers in Northglenn, Colorado, must have been surprised to see an entire Starbucks store rolling down the highway on a flatbed trailer. The store, which originally opened in 2012, was being relocated to a new site about a mile away. This would be impossible with a normal Starbucks location, but this cafe ...

Starbucks just opened the first of its 1,000 planned Reserve stores on the ground floor of the chain's headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The Reserve store — seen as a competitor of more upscale coffee shops like Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia — includes a high-end Princi bakery, full liquor bar, coffee bar, lounge areas, ...

Shoppers walking into any Starbucks around the country are greeted not only by the smell of espresso and fresh ground coffee, but also by displays of themed coffee mugs, thermoses and coffee-brewing equipment such as french presses. But Starbucks is scaling back those products by roughly 30 percent ...

Starbucks on Tuesday will open the first of 1,000 planned upscale Starbucks Reserve stores as part of a broad strategy to defend against high-end coffee rivals like Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea and Blue Bottle Coffee. Starbucks for the first time in 2017 had more U.S. outlets than McDonald's. The world's ...