| February 12, 2008 | -
Starbucks announced that 7,100 stores will close for three hours so that 135,000 employees can learn again how to make coffee.
| Source:
Seattle Times
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| January 8, 2008 | -
Starbucks fired its CEO and announced that it would start to open fewer than its usual six stores per day.
| Source 1:
BBCnews.com
Source 2:
Houston Chronicle
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| July 31, 2007 | -
Starbucks said that it would raise its prices by 3 percent.
| Source:
AP via local6.com
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| March 27, 2005 | -
Starbucks came to Guantánamo Bay.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 13, 2002 | -
A man from Texas named John Winter Smith was trying to visit every one of the 3,450 Starbucks on the planet.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
A hoax voucher circulated on the Internet, allowing people to sample Starbucks' new “creme frappuccino” for free for several hours before the coupon was identified as fake. “It's hard to believe this is real,” said one Washington Starbucks employee. “We've run out of the vanilla creme frappuccinos. It's all gone.”
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| February 5, 2002 | -
The World Economic Forum was held in New York instead of
Davos, Switzerland, and many
celebrities were feeling left out when they weren't invited to
swanky parties populated with economists, businessmen, and
sundry apologists of globalization. Panelists included Bono,
the pop star, who told the press that “the great thing about
hanging out with Republicans is that it's very unhip for both of
us. There's a parity of pain here.” About 1,000 people
demonstrated in front of a Gap store in Manhattan to protest the
company's use of overseas sweatshops. Media hopes for
Seattle-style violence were disappointed.
“Starbucks can rest easy for
another day,” one policeman
told a reporter.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Starbucks' new coffee shop in Beijing's Forbidden City was forced to remove its sign.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Starbucks Coffee opened a store in China's Forbidden City, right next to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
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