Starbucks said employees would receive training on enforcing the new policy. The new rules reverse an open-door policy put in place in 2018, after two Black men were arrested at a Philadelphia ...

Starbucks reverses open-door policy: Buy something or leave Starbucks to lay off 1,100 corporate workers Starbucks announced this week that the company will lay off 1,100 corporate workers in an ...

In addition to menu and policy changes ... to not fill "several hundred" open positions. The move does not apply to baristas and others who work in Starbucks stores themselves.

Niccol said Starbucks is also eliminating several hundred open and unfilled positions.“Our intent is to operate more efficiently, increase accountability, reduce complexity and drive better ...