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this is also the only options now at starbucks headquarters. deposi for every cup and got a dollar back when they returned it getting customers on board will be a challenge it's trying out a 10 cent fee for single-use cups and then 50-cent discount for reusable megs starbucks did initiate the move away from plastic straws which customers balked at. now that's the standard everywhere you go at coffee shops large and small. >> is starbucks also getting into the electric car game, teaming up with volvo, something about outside chargers -- outside their stores what are they doing? >> reporter: yeah, again, tied to these long-term climate goals. the two brands are rolling out a pilot to help understand how scaleable and widely use electric vehicle chargers will be at their stores nationwide. volvo is going to install up to 60 branded charge point dc chargers at 15 starbucks locations that run along a route from denver to starbucks headquarters in seattle. there should be a location about every 100 miles with installation this summer and completion b

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starbucks, never good when you are retiring in the stock flies higher. 9% on starbucks in the premarket. schulz is back as the interim ceo. kevin johnson is out next month. tom: there are details i don't care about. there is news out of chelsea, but on a serious note, we are talking to michael, the ceo jp morgan, the investment manager. i just want to have my bracket completed, and gorgonzola has gone all the way to the finals. i am looking forward to that. >> owen put too much money on that. >> i don't go with yale. i had to go with purdue because the woman from purdue signs my paycheck. on a serious note, chairman powell faces serious consequences today. what is the biggest focus to get to the autumn of this year? >> it is interesting to me if you go back to january. you walk into this year surprisingly hawkish, and that caught the markets of -- off guard. i want to see if they opened the door to 50 basis point hikes and how soon they will do. i am also looking at a quantitative tightening. how fast will they roll that forward. i think they will bring that forward to june. lastly, i w

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inside starbuck's plan to move away from paper cups and what it could mean for the cost of your daily caffeine fix. >>> and mountain mama's. ♪ country road ♪ ♪ take me home ♪ >> jimmy fallon breaks out guitars during our visit to the "tonight show." ♪ west virginia ♪ ♪ mountain mama ♪ >> and we're in almost heaven today wednesday, march 23, 2022. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning everybody. welcome to "today." it is 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. we're glad you're with us on this saturday morning. >> we got to sing with jimmy fallon. we'll get to that in a little bit. we want to start with the breaking news out of new orleans, a deadly tornado tearing through just east of the lower ninth ward, an area known for being hit hard by hurricane katrina that happened nearly 17 years ago. >> one of several tornadoes reported in the last 24 hours as a major storm system makes its way across the south. and yet another round of severe weather is expected today. we have it all covered, including al's ful

. >>> the big change that could be coming at starbucks. it would affect anyone buying a cup of coffee. >>> and is the u.s. about to stop changing our clocks twice a year? what happened today. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with the war in ukraine and this evening, the capital city of kyiv, where the mayor there has imposed a mandatory 35-hour curfew, saying families should only leave their homes if they are racing to a bomb shelter. tonight, russia increasing its assault on ukraine, hitting civilian targets. ukraine's president zelenskyy will address the u.s. congress tomorrow. but tonight, he has already addressed canadian parliament, and what he asked for. the white house now responding. tonight, verified video showing new images of deadly attacks. this massive explosion there rocking the second largest city of kharkiv. the city hit dozens of times in just the last 24 hours. attacks intensifying in and around kyiv. deadly russian air strikes pounding civilian areas in the

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starbucks had 5500, it is the second home market for starbucks and a big growth opportunity in the futured into social gifting on wechat and alipay and taken advantage of that opportunity and came in to do exactly what they said, grow the digital business and they really have. >> on the tech side, jon, one of the most popular digital wallets before everyone was being looking at the space one other stock finding love amid the sell-off. bumble off 45% in the week although still negative for the month and that was the stock that started the year at $36 per share. me ah check" is back in just mont i'm 53, but in my mind i'm still 35. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex. available at your local retailer and club. >>> microsoft, the company behind office, linkedin, gethub out on the highlights and limits of remote work steve kovac is here next to me >> in real life, isn't that great? >> yes the details? >> they surveyed 30,000 people and they pulled data from linkedin and office 365 usa

starbucks at 23 times, sure, it's a lot cheaper than when it was in the 30s that was too high. this, i wouldn't short it, but i feel like -- it's still above the market multiplenow and maybe this growth engine is stalling. >> that's the question here, what is priced into these stocks and should a big china exposure actually be discounted now, and have we gotten there yet >> i think you have to think about the china story both short-term and long-term short-term, there are vulnerabilities all over the place. the zero covid policy is not going anywhere i sort of had hopes they would start to move away from that not happening. i don't know that you can say the china growth story is completely over for these companies. it's still a huge economy, growing at a good clip compared to a lot of the world. longer term these companies have strategies to grow and i think generally speaking they're intact but it is more complex now whether you're talking about regulation or any number of other things so the premium that was baked into the stocks is probably lower than what it once was. we pr

and starbucks had to really try to go after both but move boo the digital world and i'm sure ka caused the country without amazon i think it's a great company that's had tremendous growth and provided countless jobs and i think both companies are great american companies and got to stay competitive. >> lets's talk about the business you know perhaps as well as any human abeing and that's the quick serve restaurant there's a big push upward in wages in that sector if you were running a company like yum or starbucks or mcdonald's how would you deal with that and protecting the business's margins when wages are going up as quickly as they have been in recent years? >> first thing is to be top line focused, growth focused. best way to protect margins is to get flow through in the sales dollars. retail business like the restaurant business but you can't bank on that so i think the smart executives say we go after the sales and got to also cover the costs to make sure the cost structure is competitive, this includes looking at the supply chain, leveraging the scale. working on process improv

today mcdonald's, starbucks, will stop selling their products in russia.ll close -- but they'll continue to pay 62,000 of their employees that work there. also starbucks says that it will stop operating its business in the country, which includes any shipments of its projects to russia. and it will close 100 of its stores as well. we did speak to the chief executive at starbucks who said, we condemn the a refix attacks on ukraine by russia and our hearts goes out to all those who are affected. we have decided to suspend all business activity in russia, including shipment of all starbucks projects. and this is the latest move from the west. a united front. an attempt to isolate russia economically from what is happening in ukraine. but we must remember that companies, governments, and individuals in the past two weeks, have all been sanctioning and cutting ties with russia. netflix, h&m all taking a stand. but these companies, starbucks, mcdonald's, pepsi's have saved criticism over the past few days. thousands have went on social media for boycotting these

mcdonald's, starbucks, coca-cola suspending operations in russia today. amid the difficult images coming in again tonight. the city of sumy, here the russian border, under siege from russian air strikes. homes destroyed there overnight. local officials report 21 killed, includinging two children. that city, one of the only ones where a temporary cease-fire allowed evacuation convoys to make it out. a line of buses waiting to depart and still, it was terribly dangerous for those trying to get out. the red cross helping with more than 60 buses. thousands of people onboard. russian tanks still firing at times. intensive shelling resuming after dark. tonight here, more images of russia's ruthless campaign against ukraine. video showing a church burning some 40 miles from the capital of kyiv. and a particularly brutal assault, the images emerging from the first days of this war, a tank firing on that car. the occupants were killed. president zelenskyy addressing the british parliament today, his stirring words, channeling winston churchill, and you'll hear wha

the impact of mcdonald's, starbucks and coca—cola is greater, would you argue, or not?r not? at the end ofthe you argue, or not? at the end of the day. — you argue, or not? at the end of the day, these _ you argue, or not? at the end of the day, these tech - of the day, these tech companies don't really have bricks and mortar, do they? they don't have people on the ground with staff. it is easier for them, ground with staff. it is easier forthem, i'm not ground with staff. it is easier for them, i'm not saying it is easy for anyone to close their businesses down but it is easier for people to pull out of the country where you do not have people on the ground and you are not having to pay for people in that way. so i do understand why rixon waters company take slightly longer than a technology company, because it is a completely different business model. it certainly is. and just, quickly, no—one told i don't have time, sorry, lindsay. i wanted to get your take on the impact on brand reputation but thatis impact on brand reputation but that is a conversation for another

and starbucks founder howard schultz will become the interim ceo until the company names a successor. good morning. this is some really, really big news >> good morning. >> so what happened? why is kevin standing down i think that comes as a huge surprise to investors, to anybody who's been watching the company. >> it's not a surprise to the board. over a year ago kevin signaled to us that he was starting to think about his future and starting to think about retiring and he told us he thought the waning days of the pandemic might be the perfect book end to his now five-year career as ceo. the board wants to respect that decision he's done a great job for us at starbucks and really wants to move onto do something else now. and then we have this mvp on the bench and so the board called him up we thought at this moment he's the perfect person, certainly the perfect culture carrier, so he'll help us transition and we get all of that for a dollar he's going to be doing it for free >> he's going to be doing this froo free, a donation of a dollar to do it. under howard schultz the stock u wa

. >> another three starbucks caves union pulling ahead of the coffee giant, first went 8 yes votes, 7nd second union 15 yes and 12 no votes, 6 voted yes on unionizing. two other locations in buffalo, one in mesa, arizona, have voted in favor of organizing, this is just the beginning according to starbucks workers united, 129 stores in 26 states have petitioned starbucks approaches bargaining store by store manner so could take a long time but again, symbolic with three more wins for the union. melissa back to you. >> karen, you hear that you think you're on the pass to rising waging. >> i think so. i look at ups versus fedex, ups unionized drivers and ups does not. an . >>> let's get to earnings alert on crowdstrike, conference call is underway, let's get the details, christina. >> well, $20 million that's above revenue estimates, the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike beating expectations in the fourth quarter driven by annual recurring revenue, saw 66% jump in subscription revenue versus a year ago and ceo saying, this enables us to step up in new technologies and international geograph

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it comes as starbucks' former ceo howard schultz, who has a history of being anti-union, gears up toou can now personalize your own peeps. the company's website is letting consumers customize their chicks to their liking. you get to pick the marshmallow color, the chocolate coating, and a topping. a dozen custom peeps will cost under $30. >> you know what peeps needs more of -- sugar. >> more sugar. yes. >> layers of sugar. >> all right. exactly. pile it on. >> all right. 'tis the season. diane king hall in new york, thank you. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, movies and music. we're going to tell you the big names scheduled to perform at the oscars ceremony this sunday. ♪ it's the most wonderful time of the year ♪ get fast relief of your worst allergy symptoms, including nasal congestion, with powerful claritin d, so you can breathe better. feel the clarity and make today the most wonderful time of the year. claritin d. >>> here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ >>> former child star amanda bynes, who is now 35 years old, is free from a court conservatorshi

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. >>> a news alert on starbucks. get to kate rogers what are the details, kate >>> kelly, a second store now in mesa, arizona has voted to unionize with starbucks workers united the votes were 11 in favor, three against the union. this is the eighth store out of nine in three different states that has voted yes on unionizing so the union for the most part has been really winning and moving ahead here. more than 150 stores across the country have filed petitions with the nlrb. the starbucks hometown of seattle just got the first unionized store a few days ago all of this top of mind for howard shuttle as he comes in for kevin johnson as new ceo this is a fight that will continue we should note starbucks does have to negotiate contracts in good faith with the stores neither party has to agree to a contract while it is symbolic and important that the union continues to win, the contract is the big thing they have their eyes on. starbucks down 25% since the first union vote >> that was the date i was curious about. april

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yes, so all the likes of mcdonalds, coca cola, starbucks expecting the russian government to react to that pulling out of the country. these companies that are still in russia, the must expect retaliation when it comes to russia. these last 2 weeks. one thing we've learned is that their actions are hard to predict and well, it is, isn't it better to be safe than, sorry. and these are in some small mom and pop shops, or some guy renting, trying to sneak out and disappear overnight from a landlord after not paying rent. these are multimillion dollar american companies doing business in russia. and what's the rule when you reside on their soil? you play by their rules and their customs, even as it changes what have been knock on effects for the american firms that have been pulling out to russia though other than any threat. so they might be from the russian government. what impact is it having on them anyway? well, when these companies leave russia in the 1st place, you're going to lose a large market of consumers. some of them are pretty wealthy, as we bred the past 2 weeks. you also m

it you could see that inflation is hitting starbucks aggressively. they raise prices 3 times since october and they still missed earnings expectations, even though the revenues are larger than it was pre pandemic. so they've got a big ol cup of my you top that off with the press. all. >> oh, my god. i and you might like what? here's the yeah. i think about buying stock in large part. it's 25% from its all-time high. i think the raise prices when the unionized prices, when they get hit with inflation. so and long a buyer of starbucks, maybe at these levels. i'm not well looked at it. i might. i like that. but i don't buy my coffee. you know, i make it. you might say dar. >> why are you drinking beer today? instead of coffee pot? it's like. >> no, no. i got to deny did it. they get >> as you say, you're my kind of way. know a saint patrick's day? i know you're going to talk about people drinking i don't like to drink alcohol, but i love beer and this is local and i hate the big brewing companies. and so this best a brewing. no, i can drink in the morni

starbucks is up about 5% right now.ter of a percent and separately an investor group is urging the coffee chain to adopt a neutral policy toward union efforts. the group holds at least 1.2 billion in starbucks stock and once the company to reach a fair and timely collective bargaining agreement with workers who vote to join the union no word from starbucks on the matter it appears to be a small group of investors here, with just over a billion involved but still, we are watching that story. we saw wheat prices can we bring those back for a second, they are up another 5.5% right now, but now your daily bread isn't the only item that could soon be in short supply. we're talking price panic in the pasta aisle with the ceo of the company behind rayos famed marinara sauc e. closing bell 29 minutes away and the dow keeps chugging higher now we're seeing a gain of 649 points the nasdaq is already popped now up 365 points, the s&p up 92. we are coming right back, you can't tear your eyes away from this one. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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coca-cola and starbucks. russia. starbucks is saying they're going to temporarily close 130 stores there in response to putin's invasion of ukraine. coke doing this, too? we know hours earlier today, we saw mcdonald's making this move. it seems like pressure is building on some of these u.s. companies. >> yeah, certainly pressure, especially consumer facing companies here in the u.s. we know from previous polling data that so many american consumers really care about what the companies they consume are doing in terms of geopolitics. coca cola say there are suspending their business and their hearts are with the people during these tragic events. as for starbucks, we know ceo kevin johnson has condemned the attacks saying they're unjust and horrific. starbucks has about 2,000 employees in russia in the area. so when you look at the bigger picture of course, mcdonald's certainly leading the day closing their 850 locations, but also continuing notably to pay their stuff in russia. they say there's a major econom

this will be schultz's third stint at running starbucks schultz helped build starbucks from 11 stores to 28,000 of them worldwide. but now he retakes the job as starbucks faces a wave of employees trying to unionize workers in six stores so far, but they filed to organize in another 100. investigators like the look. starbucks up more than 5% today. >>> netflix with a new attempt to crack down on people who share their password accounts -- or account passwords the streaming giant set to launch a way to let subscribes pay an additional fee for users outside their households previous efforts to limit password sharing prompted users to verify account credentials. no word yet on if it's coming stateside. >>> and chipotle chipotle is testing an automated tortilla chip maker. in a stroke of corporate genius, they've named the robotic assistant chippy the bot cooks the chips and seasons them with salt and lime juice. wow. chippy set to make an appearance in one california location earlier this year. who knew that chips don't come from a bag >>> on wall street, a wild ride, but the fed got a m

there's unionization in a lot of the franchises of starbucks.me ceo, 13 years on the board, yes, but not so long that you couldn't have had an easy succession beginning last year. >> what do you think happened here >> again, i find it extraordinary and quizzical, and can draw no conclusions, other than the fact the idea of howard shultz coming back is extraordinary. >> maybe there was a lack of urgency, but, again, if you are a board and your ceo says i'm think being retiring a year from now, i don't understand why you don't have a lot of candidates potentially lined up if you let something walk out the door, perhaps it's exactly a year brewer left in january of 2021, or announced t i don't get it. this is an important company and would you expect a succession plan in place. >> i think kevin johnson is great, there's a lot of headwinds, obviously i regard it as material that he told the board he was going to leave. >> it should have been -- well, i don't know a lot of times you can signal. >> signaled? signaled >> that's what he says i signaled

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starbucks phasing out its iconic cups as part of a new push for sustainability.year, you will er it head or use of the drive through. by 25, starbucks will allow you to borrow a ceramic, or reusable mug. that's interesting. esco things here, anything to try to help the environment and stop discarding this stuff is a good thing. it's also pretty good for starbucks' bottom line because now they won't have to pay huge sums of money on cups. mike: and the traffic. larry: win-win-win. spencer: what about these reusable cups they allow you to -- borrow? larry: i believe so. mike: for a refundable fee. spencer: people trust you to return them -- or, reuse them? larry: you wonder. especially in the covid age, do i really want the cup you just had? kristen: that's my concern. can they make sure it is sanitized somehow? i like the idea. i would just do it with peet's's coffee. [laughter] larry: coffee snob. mike: she's shopping locally. kristen: faculty and students at oakland elementary school had something to cheer about. [ kristen: everybody went wild wid -- popped the

changes at the top and bottom at starbucks have a great move going for this stock. we've got starbucks up 4%, although off the highs of the session, ceo kevin johnson will step down and whose going to grab the reigns of the leadership of the coffee chain? founder and former ceo howard schultz. it is going to be temporary, for all you schultz fans who are thrilled to see what he had done for starbucks, but the java jolt is giving investors an unexpected desire to buy stock and the stock is down about 25% over the past year. schultz says his pay as interim ceo will be $1 but starbucks is jacking up the hourly pay for its baristas starting ranges will be $15 but all the way up to $23 an hour by this summer. that's what the union might do, so starbucks baristas will soon be getting paid $23 an hour. look at kohl's stock it is popping on takeover, hopes it'll become a little more solid over the past couple hours. the wall street journal reports the equity firm sycamore partner s and canadian department store operator hudson's bay plan to submit a bid in the high 60s for

so that count will take all week some of these starbucks hearings are done in 30 or 40 minutes starbucks voted unanimously to unionize but it was nine smaller footprint, smaller amount of workers, potentially easier to get everyone on the same page this the stores. it's ved ing across the country quickly. it's important to keep in mind how many people are voting and that's something i think investors are watching. >> it's important context. if some of the employees are not expecting to be there by the time their unionization efforts m manifest, why are they doing >> it's interesting. in talking to young workers at these companies, it seems like there is a collective group think improving things and making things better for everyone, not just yourself and your current position, but years dom. if you get a good contract and the union can hang on to it, if that worker decides to move on, that's good for everyone the younger work edayers are thinking about everyone else >> it's very fascinating you have been covering this story closely for a while. glaet to have you on set. >>> well, now let

and howard schultz who founded and built starbucks. we'll come back and be the interim ceo until they find replacement. >>the warriors are on a roll racking up 4 wins in a row in just the last week. but coach steve kerr says his team needs to improve quite a bit before they can make a playoff run. kron on sports director jason dumas has more on that. plus, a preview of march madness. >>the dogs were back on the practice court prepping for a big time matchup against the celtics on wednesday night. on monday, golden state warmly welcomed draymond green back to the lineup. he was hitting threes and all. but there are still a few vets who remain on ice. andre iguodala is one of them. he was getting up shots today at practice. >>but steve kerr told me that there's no timetable for andres return. gary payton, the second, he's also still out here remains day-to-day with a knee injury. for now, the dubs will roll with what they got. not like. they have a choice. and still, steve kerr made a point to tell me that they are still very much a work

. >>> the people at starbucks coffee japan are continuing to shift away from single-use plastic.y're set to make more changes in april in time for a new law to encourage waste reduction and plastic recycling. starbucks officials say their outlets will start serving cold drinks for eat-in customers without plastic lids. they'll test the change at about 100 stores april 18th before extending it to shops in the summer. the company switched to plastic from paper in 2020. coffee chain has been phasing out plastic in the lead up to the new law. switched to paper cups for cold drinks to go and japan is planning similar steps. >>> japanese confectionary makers have been aiming to boost sales. a local entrepreneur sees this as an opportunity. she launched a monthly subscription service that is starting to gain traction. nhk world's nakagawa saori has thstory. >> it's really good. it's got a really nice, soft texture. >> reporter: she lives in the u.s. state of arizona. she says she waits in anticipation for her monthly delivery of wagashi. ayumi provides the confections by way of a subscr

and so you see especially the two examples amazon and starbucks, where predominantly very young peopleng for all the leverage that they can get out of this now, we're concerned about this at the conference board from a wage price spiral standpoint you also have a 40-year high in inflation and so people are seeing their real pwages go dow as they're trying to afford food and energy increases it's all that pressure at the same time that's coming to the fore but you said it. it's only 6 % prevalence from a union standpoint here in the private sector >> yeah. and as you say, this could be driven by cost of living squeeze. kind of the misery index that we talk about, and the sense of -- for that to happen, is it going to change the big picture trend which has been toward a smaller and smaller percentage of the country unionized over the years? >> well, i think look, unions have played an important historic role in this country. you know, moving toward wetter safety, a higher standards of work and benefits a enso forth but most of the employers today are pretty enlightened even at amazon, yo

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issued a statement stopping all business activity including shipment of all starbucks products ceo kevinas agreed to immediately pause store operations and will provide support to nearly 2,000 partners in russia. general electric will suspend operations with the exception of providing essential medical equipment and supporting existing power services to people in the region and coca-cola also suspending business, adding "our hearts are with the people who are enduring unconscionable effects from these tragic events in ukraine." pepsico adding themselves to the growing list shortly after that, suspending sales as well as promotional and advertising activities mounting pressure on social media came in the form of hashtags calling for customers to boycott various brands, starbucks and mcdonald's included retail experts say this forced companies to act now rather than wait for the social outcry to blow over. >> you know, there was a time in the past when you could just ride things out. but that is not what your customer allows you to do today. the customer wants you to take a stand. >> now,

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and howard schultz who founded and built starbucks.ll come back and be the interim ceo until they find a permanent replacement live from the nasdaq market site. i'm jane. if if they change the cup thing, i can bring my own people like me to get a much bigger cup. >> i'll be taking in a like it back fill it up. have an 11. >> thanks, jay. that's much often. not enough. it. san francisco mayor london breed has introduced legislation to make a portion of jfk drive. >> completely car free forever. a 3 mile stretch of the road between lincoln way in case our drive has been closed since the early days of the pandemic to make outdoor and socially distant recreation much easier. 3 cities supervisors rafael mandelman, matt haney and dean preston are all co sponsoring that legislation while pedestrian advocacy groups like kids safe sf and walk a plot that measure the proposal also faces some strong opposition. the full board of supervisors is expected to vote on the legislation as soon as april. happening today, we could learn of teachers in the