What changes can customers expect to see in the meantime? "By the end of next year, Starbucks customers will be able to use their own personal reusable cups for every Starbucks order in the United States and Canada," Amelia Lucas reported for CNBC. However, the company wants all customers to use reusable cups by 2025 - which they will either bring from home or be provided. Starbucks runs through roughly 7 billion disposable cups every year. This week, the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against the coffee company. Last week, three more Starbucks stores in New York successfully voted to join the union Workers United. Want more great food writing and recipes? Subscribe to Salon Food's newsletter.Īs Salon's Manuela Lopez Restrepo earlier reported, however, workers have " described union busting tactics from their employer, which included the shutdown of stores amid organization efforts, as well as the switching and transferring of employees in attempts to deter them from continuing their organization efforts." "We truly believe the company has and can continue to deliver far more in direct partnership with our people." "We hear the feedback, and we are committed to finding new ways to enhance and elevate what we call the partner experience," Hobson reportedly said. The Starbucks Board of Directors anticipates that a new will be announced by the fall.Īt the shareholders meeting, Starbucks Board Chair Mellody Hobson acknowledged the recent unionization push by Starbucks employees, who are referred to as "partners." Schultz will remain in the role until a permanent replacement is found. The billionaire's compensation will be $1. Schultz, the longtime former leader of Starbucks, is stepping into the position of acting CEO as a volunteer. In the meantime, Howard Shultz is returning Johnson, who spent five of those 13 years as CEO, leaves with profits back on track. In the final quarter of 2021, sales were up 11% over the fourth quarter of 2019, according to National Restaurant News. "I feel this is a natural bookend to my 13 years with the company." "A year ago, I signaled to the Board that as the global pandemic neared an end, I would be considering retirement from Starbucks," Johnson said in a statement. RELATED: McDonald's, Starbucks and other major food brands cut ties with Russia Johnson said he previously "signaled" a desire to step down once he had determined that Starbucks had sufficiently weathered the COVID-19 pandemic. The move was made public in the hours leading up to Wednesday's shareholder event.
Kevin Johnson, the president and CEO of Starbucks, is retiring on April 4.
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Here are four things to know, plus a look back at when we unpacked the mystery of the $7 Starbucks macchiato: Howard Schultz is coming back, while single-use cups are being phased out.Īnd those are only a few of the headlines that poured into the news this week in the run up to the coffee chain's annual shareholders meeting. Then and only then will I partake in playing Christmas music and the sipping from the “highly offensive” plain red Starbucks cups.For Starbucks, big changes are on the horizon. So I am going to go Ebenezer Scrooge and Grinch on all the Christmas festivities up until Nov. What’s next, Halloween just turning into an early Christmas-themed costume party? It’s possible, and this may be true in only a matter of time with the way things are going. Thanksgiving already seems to have been consumed by the Christmas celebration. I mean Christmas even has its own music, how can Thanksgiving stand up to that? But we still need to give Thanksgiving its due time in the spotlight, and it definitely is good to reflect with thankfulness on all that we enjoy rather than focusing on the negatives as we so often do.īut for some, Starbucks included, Christmas festivities starting on Black Friday is not good enough. I do acknowledge that Thanksgiving, with its turkey, stuffing and football, may not be able to stand up to the presents, trees, lights and all the glory that the holiday season brings in. Can we not just celebrate one holiday at a time any more? Why, you might ask?īecause it’s too early for Christmas! Thanksgiving has not even come around yet, and stores are already playing their Christmas music and prematurely decking their halls. Yes, a nearly $5 coffee is an act of war in my book.īut I still find Starbucks’ cups offensive. The only thing that Starbucks is waging war on is everyone’s pocketbook.
It’s just a cup after all people, and snowmen aren’t even Christian (at least I do not think they are). I don’t think that Starbucks is waging a war on Christians. Who could have predicted that Starbucks’ new minimalist red cup holiday design would have made so many conservatives, Christians and Christmas lovers everywhere so angry? You never know what is going to cause a firestorm when the Internet is involved.
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