The retailer plans to spend $200 million over the next four years on the program…US-based employees will be able to choose from schools like Morehouse College, the University of Arizona, Oregon State, and the University of Denver…The program will be available to all 340,000 part-time and full-time workers…
$454 Million: Corporate America Floods Social Justice Causes with Cash Amid Floyd Protests…
Corporations are opening up their treasuries to give money to social justice causes, including Black Lives Matter, in the wake of nationwide protests and riots over the death of George Floyd. Many of the big companies are pushing their employees to do the same. Some businesses are donating to controversial bail funds like the Minnesota […]
Crazy: Dems Threaten Starbucks Boycott Until Former CEO Howard Schultz Abandons 2020 Bid for Prez…
Starbucks Share Drop on Weak Sales Forecast, Plans to Close More Than 150 Stores Next Year…
Shares of Starbucks slipped more than 3 percent Tuesday after the coffee chain lowered its third-quarter sales forecast and said it would scale back store growth. The company said it would slow the number of licensed stores it opens and close underperforming company-operated locations in densely populated areas. The company historically closes about 50 of […]
Starbucks Quietly Walks Back “Homeless Shelter” Bathroom Policy in New “Color Brave” Employee Manual…
Starbucks has quietly walked back their “all inclusive” bathroom policy, perhaps after realizing that their employees and customers alike weren’t responding well to the prospect of vagrants using their stores as a homeless shelter. As part of their new “Third Place Policy” which the company shuttered 8,000 stores to pound into employees heads on Tuesday, […]
New Starbucks Training Manual Promotes ‘Becoming Color Brave’…
Starbucks to Close All Stores Nationwide for Racial-Bias Education…
Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced it will be closing its more than 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States on the afternoon of May 29 to conduct racial-bias education geared toward preventing discrimination in our stores. The training will be provided to nearly 175,000 partners (employees) across the country, and will become part […]
Protesters Flood Starbucks, Vow To Shut It Down After Police Arrest Black Men (VIDEO)…
Protesters flooded a Philadelphia Starbucks Monday morning to protest last week’s arrest of two black men at the store. Dozens of protesters entered the premise, with the intent on ensuring the coffee shop wouldn’t make any money, according to ABC 6. “We know that you don’t have the power to change everything — you’re just […]
Starbucks Doubles Down on Military Hiring After Boycott Threats…
Starbucks Corp., after facing a backlash for promising to hire refugees, plans to employ more U.S. military veterans. The coffee retailer will hire 25,000 veterans and their spouses by 2025, it said on Wednesday. Starbucks already has brought on 10,000 of them, ahead of a previously set goal. As part of its global expansion, more […]
Starbucks Has More Customer Money on Cards Than Many Banks Have in Deposits…
Some people keep their money in banks. Some keep cash beneath a mattress. Now there’s another place that people are depositing their money…