article_snippet.sent: Starbucks announced late Friday night that a computer outage that affected registers at 8,000 stores in the US and Canada, prompting baristas to give away free drinks, has now been resolved.
article_snippet.sent: No coffee here: A Starbucks store closes Friday in Phoenix because of computer issues.
article_snippet.sent: Starbucks says a sales register computer glitch has disrupted sales at company-operated stores in the US and Canada .
article_snippet.sent: A nationwide shutdown of Starbucks computer system Friday evening prompted baristas to give away free coffee .
article_snippet.sent: The computer glitch prevented staff from accepting credit cards or ringing up sales, but Starbucks workers at the East Village location were still accepting cash.
article_snippet.sent: Starbucks released a statement on Starbucks website saying Starbucks is aware of the point-of-sale register outage in the US and Canada.
article_snippet.sent: According to Twitter users, many Starbucks locations around the country closed many Starbucks locations around the country doors so as not to give away free products during the shutdown . '
article_snippet.sent: Seems like all Starbucks are doing this.
article_snippet.sent: According to reports from around the country, many #Starbucks locations in places like Florida, Tennessee and Arizona closed Tennessee and Arizona doors so as not to give away free products during the shutdown.
highlights_snippet.sent: Company shutdown is effecting 8,000 Starbucks locations in US and Canada .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Many Starbucks locations closed Many Starbucks locations doors so as not to give away free drinks .
  