If, on Feb. 26, you head to your local Starbucks after work and discover that it's closed, don't say I didn't warn you. On that Tuesday, from 5:30 pm to 8:30 p.m., Starbucks will close all of its standalone stores. The three-hour shut down is so that the employees �" about 135,000 of them �" can be retrained. Spokeswoman Valerie O'Neil said:

We will have all new standards for how we create the drinks. They will be trained in ...

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