YOU WONT BELIEVE: 7 - What They Never Told You

Starbucks Rethinks Almost Everything, Including How to Make Frappuccinos

Behind a secure door at Starbucks Corp. headquarters lies a technology lab where the chain is plotting its renewal. That includes rethinking the onerous path its baristas must take to make a Frappuccino.

Bangkok Post · Sep 1, 2022

Starbucks names former PepsiCo executive as new CEO

Starbucks has named a longtime PepsiCo executive as its new CEO

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2022

Starbucks and Amazon accused of dragging their feet on union contracts

After successful unionization drives, experts say companies will ‘fight to the end’ to prevent the next step

The Guardian - US · Sep 1, 2022

Starbucks closing six Los Angeles stores over safety issues amid rising crime

‘We read every incident report you file – it’s a lot,’ senior vice-presidents told staff this week

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2022

A New York Starbucks abruptly closed – was it retaliation for a union drive?

Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will ‘never embrace the union’

The Guardian - US · Jul 4, 2022

One unionized. The other did not. How 2 Milwaukee cafés were changed by union drives

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

WEKU · Jul 1, 2022

Seattle to host NBA preseason game this fall between Trail Blazers and Clippers

SEATTLE — While it isn’t the Sonics — at least not yet — two sources have confirmed a Los Angeles Times report Wednesday that NBA basketball will make its Climate Pledge Arena debut Oct. 3 in an exhibition game between the L.A. Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers.

Tribune News Service · Jun 29, 2022

Starbucks likely to tap board director to fill top job as Schultz exit looms

Starbucks Corp.’s hunt for a new chief executive officer has no shortage of complications: The coffee giant’s crucial China business is sputtering and its US stores are grappling with unionization efforts, potential turnoffs for plum candidates. The company lacks natural internal successors after the departure last year of two C-suite…

Tribune News Service · Jun 22, 2022

Starbucks exec at center of union fight leaves the company

Rossann Williams, who led Starbucks' largest market with over 18,000 stores for four years, is leaving the company, Starbucks said Friday.

Tribune News Service · Jun 18, 2022

Starbucks CEO under fire for response to coffee shop union movement: ‘We’re not the coal industry’

‘The third party he’s talking about doesn’t exist’, critics say

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2022