 [THEHILL] Starbucks officials said that closing its stores nationwide for an afternoon in May to conduct anti-bias training impacted it sales over the past quarter.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that officials said shutting down the stores for the day lowered comparable-store sales by less than half a percent.
Starbucks held the training after an employee at a Philadelphia store called police on two black men who were at the store but did not order anything.
The incident sparked a national outcry. Starbucks also announced that going forward, stores would allow anyone to use its bathrooms without having to buy a product. 
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