Persephone Alexander

Starbucks CEO addresses store closures and layoffs

By: Persephone Alexander, Your CEO’s Underpaid Secretary  Subject: Brewing Change Together: A message from the heart of your dear CEO Dear Starbucks Partners (and soon to be “former partners” — semantics, really),  I hope this message finds you well, or at least six blonde shots deep to even care about what is happening. As you may have heard, we will be closing a select number of stores and parting ways with approximately 900 partners across Canada and the United States.  I would like to personally reassure all of you that this decision was made with deep compassion, rigorous analytics, and…

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