> What gives There's a tightening labor market and Starbucks has a long history of compensating employees relatively well with annual raises/benefits/401k/etc.

> What gives There's a tightening labor market and Starbucks has a long history of compensating employees relatively well with annual raises/benefits/401k/etc. They gave every employee a 5% or better raise in October 2016 and everyone received a raise in January 2015 too. There's no correlation to tax cuts aside from articles like this and supporters who will point to it as proof of success.