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- Starbucks is closing all locations nationwide for the afternoon of May 29 for “racial-bias education” training.
- Rough calculations indicate the closures will cost Starbucks $ 12.4 million in lost sales.
- “I’ve always viewed this and things like this as not an expense, but an investment in our people and our company,” Executive Chairman Howard Schultz said in an interview with CBS.
Starbucks is closing all of its 8,000 locations across the US for the afternoon of May 29 for “racial-bias education” training. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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