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Target DEI Initiatives Axed: List of Companies Rolling Back DEI and Those Standing Firm

Several major companies, including Target, Walmart, and Meta, have significantly scaled back or eliminated their DEI programs in 2025.

International Business Times UK

Starbucks worker says baristas have a ‘panic button’ behind the counter, but it won't be enough to quell angry customers after open-door policy reversal

Some baristas anticipate an increase in customer altercations due to a new policy requiring an item purchase to use the bathroom or hang out in stores.

Fortune

Starbucks is instructing workers in de-escalation so they can peacefully reserve bathrooms for paying-customers only

A Starbucks employee said the chain held training on how to handle customers asking to use the restroom or sit in the store without purchasing anything.

Fortune

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Luckin Coffee beat Starbucks in China. It's now taking its playbook overseas to markets like Malaysia

Luckin Coffee—booted from the Nasdaq in 2020—has overtaken Starbucks in both China revenue and store count.

Fortune

How to Get Your Kids into Investing: A Family Project to Try

To teach your children about investing, put your money where your mouth is with this fun and potentially profitable exercise.

Kiplinger

Starbucks' policy change flushes out a debate over public restroom access

Starbucks’ decision to restrict its restrooms to paying customers has flushed out a wider problem: a patchwork of restroom use policies that varies by state and city

The Independent UK

This colorful inexpensive Bluetooth speaker could be your perfect lifestyle companion

Want a portable Bluetooth speaker that vaguely reminds you of Baby Yoda? Meet the Happy Plugs Joy.

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Digested week: Steve Bannon’s bitter attack on Elon Musk lifts the spirits, briefly

Plus: Timothée Chalamet charms on a Lime bike, Rick Stein’s 1970s prices and Starbucks’ bathroom requirements

The Guardian - UK

Starbucks nixes open door policy

New code of conduct policies aim to "boost sagging sales and improve worker relations"

Salon

Starbucks denies Union allegations

The coffeehouse giant has denied the accusation, saying they are offering "catastrophe pay" for affected workers

Salon

McDonald's is closing three CosMc's spinoffs just one year after they opened

More locations are on the way, though.

Fortune

4 iconic U.S. companies are in stormy waters—2 CEOs are possibly lost at sea, while 2 may be piloting safely to shore

Four heads of iconic U.S. enterprises face turbulent, inherited challenges with elevated investor anxiety in 2025.

Fortune

Starbucks Updates Policy To Prioritize Paying Customers

Starbucks updates policy to enhance customer experience, restrict non-paying visitors, and offer free coffee refills.

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Starbucks Shift On Non-paying Visitors Stirs Debate In US

Starbucks has stirred the coffee pot by reversing a policy that allowed anyone to use its bathrooms, with the US public warned they'll need to buy something or get out.

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International Business Times

Starbucks Says Buy Something Or Leave In Rules Change

Starbucks has ended its open-door policy, which allowed anyone, not just a customer, to use its spaces without buying anything.

The Guardian - AU

Australian supermarket iced milk coffee taste test: ‘It reminds me of the time I tried breast milk’

From bottled beverages that taste like ‘liquefied Fantales’ to others that are ‘the bubblegum vape of the coffee world’, Nicholas Jordan and friends imbibe a heroic amount of caffeine to give you their verdict

USA Today Sports Media Group

Why Starbucks is reversing its open door policy in 2025

Here's why.

The Guardian - US

A bargaining breakdown and strikes: the bitter union fight at Starbucks

Workers call proposals ‘almost laughable’ with new CEO’s pay package 10,000 times the median salary of barista

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The Guardian - UK

Starbucks says people using its coffee shops must buy something

Coffee chain reverses policy introduced in North America in 2018 that lets anyone use its facilities

International Business Times UK

Buy Something Or Leave: Starbucks' New Policy Cracks Down On Loitering In North American Stores

Starbucks now requires customers to purchase before using their restrooms or linger in stores, reversing a previous open-door policy.

The Independent UK

Major coffee chain announces rule change to target annoying customer habit

The new rules reverse the policy put in place in 2018, after two Black men were arrested

International Business Times

Starbucks Is Forcing Workers To Show Up in Areas In Danger Due To LA Wildfires: Union

SB Workers United claims workers were being required to work in areas where the air quality is unsafe.

Fortune

Walmart is getting its first logo 'refresh' in 17 years—and its marketing chief explains why

The company hopes to make the Walmart spark as recognizable as Apple’s logo and Starbucks’ mermaid.

The Independent UK

Squid Game fans joke ‘someone is getting fired’ after spotting major blunder at key moment in season 2 finale

Hit Netflix show has fallen victim to a filming error in new season

Total Film

Squid Game season 2 has a goof like Game of Thrones's Starbucks cup error

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