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Starbucks, Built on Togetherness, Tries to Adapt to Distancing

Chain plans pickup only locations in Boston, Chicago, NYC
Businesses need to adapt in age of Covid, CEO Johnson says

Tables and chairs are taped off to enforce social distancing at a Starbucks coffee shop in Hong Kong. — Tables and chairs are taped off to enforce social distancing at a Starbucks coffee shop in Hong Kong.
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By Anne Riley Moffat, Edward Ludlow, and Leslie Patton

June 10, 2020 at 6:36 PM UTC

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Is a Starbucks even a Starbucks if there isn’t an aspiring screenwriter hacking away on a script at the next table?

Kevin Johnson certainly thinks so.