Starbucks, trying to put to rest an outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, is closing more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon of anti-bias training, a strategy some believe can ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Starbucks is closing more than 8,000 U.S. stores for a few hours Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training in the company's latest effort to deal with the fallout over the arrest of two ...

Starbucks closed its corporate office and 8,000 stores the afternoon of May 29 to hold anti-racial bias training for its 180,000 employees, costing the company about $12 million, according to USA ...

CHICAGO -- Turning away customers looking for an afternoon jolt of caffeine, Starbucks shops across the U.S. closed early on Tuesday to hold training for employees on recognizing hidden prejudices. It ...

SEATTLE -- Weeks after a highly publicized incident in which two black men were arrested while waiting for a business meeting inside a Philadelphia Starbucks, the company closed thousands of stores on ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WABC) -- In the wake of backlash after two black men were arrested at a Starbucks location in Philadelphia, the company announced Tuesday that it will be closing its more ...

On May 29, over 8,000 Starbucks stores across the U.S. closed their doors for a racial bias training. Starbucks intended this training to serve both as a PR effort to address the outrage over a store ...

Starbucks under newly installed CEO Brian Niccol plans to close down its stores for three hours later this month in order to run a workshop for baristas that will further train them to make their ...

CHICAGO Starbucks Coffee's closing of more than 7,000 domestic units for three hours last month to retrain baristas appears to have caused minor inconvenience to its customers and little gain for the ...

Starbucks is teaching staff how to de-escalate conflicts involving customers breaking its new in-store policies. As part of ...

Starbucks is holding three-hour training sessions to implement the CEO's "back to Starbucks" strategy. The training focuses on customer service, new workflows, and reversing the chain's open-door ...