Starbucks has announced that it will close 150 locations in some of the nation’s big cities to get ahead of its worst growth performance in nine years. But the company also admitted it is racing to blunt the effect of cities with higher minimum wages and other business-killing regulations.
Starbucks boosted coffee prices across most U.S. locations this week, just days after opening its shops and bathrooms to non-paying guests.
In his first sit-down interview since announcing plans to step down as Starbucks’ executive chairman, Howard Schultz said that he does not understand President Donald Trump’s trade battle with China and that the communist nation’s economic aggression is not a problem.
Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks Coffee, will reportedly step down as the company’s executive chairman on June 26.
“But Starbucks had racism in its corporate identity long before the April arrests,” King wrote in her Washington Examiner op-ed. “Through its corporate donations, Starbucks contributes to one of the most racist organizations in our nation’s history. Planned Parenthood, the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S., performs more than 300,000 terminations each year.”
Starbucks closed more than 8,000 locations to teach its estimated 175,000 employees about avoiding “racial bias” and discrimination — but the coffee giant’s chosen spokesperson, rapper and activist Common, has a history of trashing interracial relationships.
Megyn Kelly — host of NBC’s ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ — took aim at Starbucks’ new policy on Tuesday, allowing anyone to use its bathrooms regardless of whether they made a purchase.
Starbucks rolled out a new policy this weekend that treats every person that walks in the door as a customer and offers unlimited restroom access.
Starbucks has been accused of racism yet again after a Latino customer at a Los Angeles area store found a racial slur scribbled on his cup.
Starbucks took the Seattle City Council to task on Tuesday after Monday’s passage of a tax bill that will cost the coffee giant and other big businesses like Amazon millions.
Local and federal authorities are investigating an apparent explosion outside of a church and school campus in Beaumont, Texas.
Jackie’s burned out of politics, he says in this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, particularly since the Democrats are such “sick obstructionists who want to destroy anything that the Republicans suggest if it does the country any good.”
The National Center for Public Policy Research’s Project 21 warns that Starbucks’ plan to shutter thousands of its stores on May 29 to train 175,000 employees on “implicit bias” could violate workers’ civil rights.
Police have opened an investigation into an Atlanta-area Starbucks store upon discovering a hidden camera inside the cafe’s restroom last week.
Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco-based attorney representing former Google engineer James Damore in his class-action lawsuit against Google, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Thursday to tease information about a burgeoning blacklist of conservatives among Silicon Valley-based technology companies. She told Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that some of her clients have been “blackballed” by “supposedly neutral hiring platforms.”
The two 23-year-old black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks last week broke their silence Thursday and spoke out about the incident that spurred people to protest Starbucks for its “racism” against the men.
Thursday at a press conference at Philadelphia Police headquarters, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross apologized for his earlier statement defending the police officers who arrested two African-American men, Donte Robinson and Rashan Nelson, at a Starbucks last week. The men
A comedian who went viral for a stunt in which he asked Starbucks to give him free coffee as “reparations for racism” told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Wednesday night that he pulled the stunt because he is tired of liberals victimizing blacks.
A group is planning to boycott and protest ten Chicago-area Starbucks locations Wednesday in light of the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks this week.
Starbucks will close 8,000 of its company-owned stores in the U.S. on May 29 for one afternoon to make its employees undergo “racial bias training.”
Rapper T.I. has joined in calls for a boycott of Starbucks after two black men were arrested at one of the coffer giant’s Philadelphia locations.
Outraged social media users are urging people to #BoycottStarbucks over an incident where a Philadelphia store called the police on two black men.
ESPN writer Jemele Hill has blasted the Philadelphia Police Department, and implied that racism played a role in the handling of the arrest of two black men in a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday.
A California family is suing the coffee retailer Starbucks after a two-year-old girl allegedly drank a beverage containing a barista’s blood, the family’s attorneys announced Wednesday.
Home Depot announced on Thursday that their workers can receive up to $1,000 bonuses thanks to the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Starbucks will spend $250 million of its corporate tax cut to boost the pay and expand the benefits of its American workers.
From Keurig to the NFL, virtue-signalling is now associated with PR disasters. Has the time for its opposite, vice-signalling, finally come?
Starbucks, McDonald’s, and other purveyors of coffee in California could soon be forced to pay astronomical penalties and post cancer warning signs in every location, if a verdict in a little-noticed class-action lawsuit goes against them.
Aug. 17 (UPI) — Stefon Diggs might roast cornerbacks life coffee beans while outfitted in Starbucks cleats for the Minnesota Vikings’ second preseason game.
Recent arrivals from Somalia and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa were among the refugees interviewed for possible jobs by 30 Starbucks managers at a hiring event in El Cajon, California on Tuesday as part of the company’s commitment to hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years.
Starbucks held a hiring event exclusively for refugees in El Cajon, California on Tuesday, part of its recently announced commitment to hire more than 10,000 refugees over the next five years.
Famed coffee maker Starbucks experienced a series of woes in 2016, but none worse than the current stock slump that not only saw shares drop over eight percent but is causing the loss of over three thousand jobs.
A Starbucks customer in California took down an alleged armed robber, according to newly released surveillance footage.
Muslim groups in Malaysia and Indonesia are calling for a boycott of Starbucks over the company’s support for LGBT rights in the region.
U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has announced plans to hire 2,500 asylum seekers across Europe in the next five years as part of a worldwide initiative.
A grouchy Chelsea Clinton took issue Tuesday with a joke reportedly made by White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon — accusing him of ‘fat-shaming’ White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz dodged questions asking him to explain why he is damaging shareholders’ investment in the company by promising to hire thousands of refugees instead of Americans. Starbucks’ pro-refugee, anti-American policy announced in January is “based on principle” instead of
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will step down from his position at the company within the next month. This decision comes after the company’s pledge to hire 10,000 refugees to protest President Trump’s temporary travel halt. The Daily Mail reports that Howard
Swiss financial services company Credit Suisse is warning that coffee giant Starbucks’ announcement of its plan to hire 10,000 Muslim refugees has clearly hurt the company by negatively impacting sales and damaging the company’s brand.
The Starbucks Coffee brand has taken a major hit since the company’s announcement that it would hire 10,000 Muslim “refugees” in response to President Donald Trump’s temporary travel moratorium in January.
