Starbucks To Close 600 Stores, Cut Up To 12,000 Jobs

By July 1, 2008

MSNBC says that Starbucks has announced that it will be closing 600 locations in the US and could eliminate up to 12,000 full and part-time jobs. Previously, the company had announced that it would close only 100 stores.

Reader gibson, who sent in the tip says:

Considering that there are THIRTY-TWO Starbucks within TWO miles of my house, this news seems inevitable. Seriously, 32 Starbucks within a 2 mile radius?! …Welcome to Portland, Oregon!

You know, people say the roaches and rats in New York are bad— but since I moved here I’ve seen more Starbucks locations than both of them combined, and I take the subway.

Starbucks to close 600 stores in the U.S. [MSNBC]
(Photo: Travelin’ Librarian )

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  1. drjayphd says:
    July 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    @doctor_cos: Maybe, but I was thinking more Iron Barista. Mark Dascacos would need to evict TGI Fridays from atop one of the Starbucks to have Kitchen Stadium, alas.

    @Joe: Really? Don’t remember an indie place offhand, although this was maybe 10-15 years ago. Streets sound familiar, though.

    @FitJulie: Were I closer to West Hartford, I’d consider It’s A Grind. They’re a chain, though, so if any of the Starbucks due to be closed are in CT, I’d suggest they move in because I’m sick of having to drive up to Blueback (There’s Only One L, People; “Blueblack” Is A Hair Dye Color, Get It Right, Assholes) Square for ‘em. ;)

    @IfThenElvis: Whither Coffee Time? Forget the site, but there’s one devoted entirely to knock-offs of more famous brands (as in the “Stars & Bucks” Morgan Spurlock mentioned on Conan O’Brien last night) and Coffee Time copycats had their own section. O.o

    @donkeyjote: We can only hope. The market abhors a vacuum, yes? Unless it’s one of them cursed business locations that’s seen about 300 stores, all in different industries, pass through and go under in the last week and a half.

    @alumicor y @Eryk: Pretty much. As enumerated in a post here a while back, and didn’t Schultz say as much when he returned to the CEO post?

    @ShariC: Well, this is Consumerist, where success isn’t measured in how many followers you have, but how much of a douchenozzle you can be to strangers in a relatively anonymous forum on the Intertubes…

  2. There's room to move as a fry cook says:
    July 3, 2008 at 2:53 am

    @drjayphd:
    Coffee Time is a poor man’s Dunkin Donuts. They have dumpy locations and according to an article a few years back focus not on coffee but on selling franchises with low up front to immigrants with dreams. When the franchisee can’t make the payments they just resell the location to the next in line.

  3. There's room to move as a fry cook says:
    July 3, 2008 at 2:58 am

    @drjayphd:
    Here is the copycat site you mentioned:
    [www.notfoolinganybody.com]

  4. snuggleboo says:
    July 3, 2008 at 4:58 am

    What people don’t realize is that any time you see a ‘bucks in a grocery store or Target, it isn’t a real Starbucks. The company has licensed the brand to those companies. Many stores are opened not because Starbucks said so, but because Target said so. Anyone else think it’s a bad idea to dilute your brand with a store full of employees you can’t approve or train?

  5. doctor_cos wants you to remain calm says:
    July 3, 2008 at 11:05 am

    @drjayphd: IronBarista hosted by William Shatner on FoodHD ??
    sweeeeeeeeeet.

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