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U.S. Covid case counts fell further over the weekend, with the nationwide average at about 33,200 new cases per day, the lowest level since late June.

The National Association of Manufacturers recently announced a new partnership with the Charles Koch Institute to expand “second chance” hiring opportunities.

Covid lockdowns sparked demand for meal kits and food delivery, while consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental cost of meat.

Starbucks said it has resolved allegations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about alleged racial bias in its employee promotions.

Starbucks shareholders rejected the coffee chain’s executive compensation proposal, in a rare admonition of an S&P 500 company.

Ruggeri will be CFO when Grismer retires on Feb. 1.

Starbucks said Wednesday that it expects to hit its long-term growth targets in 2023 and 2024, with adjusted earnings per share growth of 10% to 12%.

Starbucks will introduce a shaken iced espresso this spring to bring customers back to its cafes.

Starbucks kicked off its investor day Wednesday in good shape, but Mark Newton of Newton Advisors is warning of stock weakness in 2021.

Starbucks is raising hourly wages for its baristas by at least 10%.

Police arrested a woman on Monday after investigating a racist incident at a Starbucks in Norwich last week. A confrontation between two women in a Norwich Starbucks drive-thru ended in a racist incident Tuesday morning. Holly Chalifoux, 22, of Moosup, was arrested after police received a walk-in complaint from Marcela Lee. She claimed that she was intimidated based on her…

A confrontation between two women in a Norwich Starbucks drive-thru ended in a racist incident Tuesday morning. Marcela Lee, a black woman who was buying her breakfast at Starbucks, said that a white woman behind her in line started revving her engine and yelling at Lee that she was late for work. What happens next was captured on a Facebook…

A woman attacked with a racial slur at a Norwich Starbucks returned to the location to thank the employees there for their support

A woman in Norwich wanted to thank the Starbucks workers who supported her after witnessing another woman call her a racist slur.

That Starbucks habit has gotten a little more expensive. Starbucks said Thursday it has raised the price of a regular drip coffee by 10 cents to 20 cents in most U.S. stores, putting a small brewed coffee at $1.95 to $2.15 in most locations. The company said prices haven’t changed on drinks such as lattes and iced coffees in most stores.

That Starbucks habit has gotten a little more expensive. Starbucks said Thursday it has raised the price of a regular drip coffee by 10 cents to 20 cents in most U.S. stores, putting a small brewed coffee at $1.95 to $2.15 in most locations. The company said prices haven’t changed on drinks such as lattes and iced coffees in most stores.

Nestle is paying more than $7 billion to handle global retail sales of Starbucks’s coffee and tea outside of its coffee shops. The deal comes with a huge price tag for Nestle, but it could pay off big for the Swiss company. Its Nescafe and Nespresso don’t carry anywhere near the heft in America that Starbucks brand does, with its...

Georgia fashion designer Mychael Knight, who was a finalist on the popular TV competition show “Project Runway,” died Tuesday at age 39.

Spring is almost here, and Starbucks is getting into the spirit by unveiling spring coffee cups for the first time.

Starbucks is unveiling its holiday coffee cups for this year and appears to be bringing back snowflakes, candy canes and other holiday symbols, after last year’s more subdued red cups caused an uproar from critics who said the chain was part of a so-called war on Christmas. On Nov. 10, the coffee chain will use 13 different designs created by...