Stacy Torres

Dec 13, 2024 | charlotteobserver.com | Stacy Torres

I've always had an ambivalent relationship with Starbucks. But especially post-pandemic, the java juggernaut has become my coffee shop of last resort. And I'm not alone - U.S. sales in the latest quarter were down 6% compared with a year earlier. The company's new chief executive recently sketched out a rescue plan that includes eliminating upcharges for nondairy milk, simplifying menu options to speed up orders and a return to writing customers' names on cups.

Dec 5, 2024 | latimes.com | Stacy Torres

I’ve always had an ambivalent relationship with Starbucks. But especially post-pandemic, the java juggernaut has become my coffee shop of last resort. And I’m not alone — U.S. sales in the latest quarter were down 6% . The company’s new chief executive recently sketched out a rescue plan that includes eliminating upcharges for nondairy milk, simplifying menu options to speed up orders and a return to writing customers’ names on cups.

Aug 9, 2024 | ucpress.edu | Christina Carney |Alex Edmans |Stacy Torres |Hemangini Gupta

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Aug 6, 2024 | ucpress.edu | Stacy Torres

By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban AmericaI never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved neighborhood establishments. Influenced by societal ageism and age-segregation that often hamper intergenerational exchange, studying the later parts of the life course hardly seemed sexy, cool, or cutting-edge to me.

Feb 16, 2024 | thebrunswicknews.com | Stacy Torres

By Stacy Torres, Los Angeles Times Age matters, but so do words. While pundits debate President Joe Biden's cognitive fitness for office and the possible motivations behind prejudicial language contained in special counsel Robert K. Hur's classified documents report, the rest of us have a different problem: the "elderly."