Starbucks Announces No More Fees For Nondairy Milks

Starting Nov. 7, customers will be allowed to choose soy milk, oat milk, almond milk, or other varieties at no additional cost. Starbucks’ new Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol wants customers to get their orders hand-delivered by a barista in four minutes or less, a goal that will be central as he tries to reinvigorate the company’s sagging sales.“We have to make it easier for our customers to get a cup of coffee,” Niccol said in his first conference call with investors since joining Starbucks in September.

Downtown’s recovery continues to lag behind the pace seen in a majority of prominent city centers and it is costing Denver tens of millions of dollars in potential sales tax revenues, according to an analysis from the Common Sense Institute, a business-funded think tank. CSI looked at the growth in net taxable sales revenues across a dozen Front Range counties from Larimer and Weld down to El Paso and Elbert.

Lego employees used Lego bricks to help design a new campus opening in Denmark. It features six color-coded buildings that will be home to Lego’s 1,700 employees. You are looking at the future center of the brick cosmos: the new Lego Innovation Campus. Right now, the people who create your favorite innovative brick products are scattered in different buildings around the company’s hometown of Billund, Denmark.

In every presidential election since 2004 The Political Machine game has offered insights that pollsters miss. Here’s what its players have discovered about this year’s election. If ever there was a time that Americans needed a video game simulation of the presidential election cycle, it was probably—well, never. But since 2004, The Political Machine has done just that, with a new edition every presidential election year for political junkies or game fans who love to plot strategy on a national scale.

Bright colors, bold fonts, and eye-popping patterns are psychological triggers, engineered to light up your brain’s pleasure centers like a well-timed notification. There’s a seismic semiotic shift happening in the grocery aisle. It’s bold, bright, and impossible to ignore. This is Dopamine Design, a packaging aesthetic that’s equally at home in the thumb stopping, scrolling, swiping world of TikTok as it is in your kitchen cupboard.

As winter approaches and outdoor farmers markets wind down, many small businesses that rely on summer sales are now faced with the difficult task of planning for their off-season. To help ensure that fellow market vendors stay afloat until spring, one of those companies, Fox Fungi, has launched a co-op out of its urban farm in south Denver where producers and artisans can continue to sell their products through April. “We’ll be paying the rent on the space either way, so we figured, let’s open it up and see if we can help friends out,” said Rachel Dunhoff of Fox Fungi, which grows and sells a wide variety of cooking mushrooms, including enoki, lion’s mane and shiitake.