Posted on 07/13/2008 8:52:25 PM PDT by rockinqsranch
Coffee giant Starbucks Corp. has released its first list of store closures since it announced a major downsizing July 1, and five of the eight California locations to be shuttered are in the Inland area.
(Excerpt) Read more at press-enterprise.com ...
Here, this is easier than sorting through that link I posted.
The stores to close are:
Alabama:
Mobile: Four stores: #10797 at 9 Du Rhu Drive; #11322 at 4401 Old Shell Road; #11429 at 6601 Airport Boulevard.; #11774 at 5611 Old Shell Road
Arkansas:
Van Buren: #10883 at 2008 Fayetteville Road
Lowell: #11864 at 105 S. Dixieland.
California:
San Diego: #9583 at 3506 National Ave.
Rancho Mirage: #10630 at 71743 Highway 111
Helmet: #10710 at 2801 W. Florida Ave.
Riverside: #10813 at 2692 Canyon Springs Parkway
Montclair: #10888 at 4467 E. Mission Boulevard
Victorville: #11029 at 14689 La Paz Drive
Hollister: #11896 at 1280 San Juan Road
Laguna Beach: #13745 at 636 N. Pacific Coast Highway
Iowa
Davenport: #13570 at 201 N. Harrison St.
Illinois
Country Club Hills: #13289 at 4019 W. 167th St.
Elmhurst: #13469 at 291 N. York St.
Indiana
Indianapolis: #11846 at 3021 W. 16th St.
Bluffton: #13201 at 2133 N. Main St.
Kentucky
Louisville: #10779 at 285 N. Hubbards Lane
Louisiana
Baton Rouge: Two stores: #11263 at 6556 Siegen Lane and #11264 at 14241 Coursey Boulevard.
Maryland
Bowie: #11799 at 3524 North Crain Highway
Minnesota
Albert Lea: #9564 at 2221 E. Main Frontage Road
Blaine: #10456 at 2331 108th Lane N.E.
Coon Rapids: Two stores: #10457 at 2740 Main St. N.W. and #10871 at 13131 Riverdale Drive
Red Wing: #10642 at 144 Tyler Road N.
Rochester: #11186 at 2665 Commerce Drive N.W.
Brooklyn Center: #11635 at 615 66th Ave. N.
Missouri
Jennings: #10834 at 8017 W. Florissant Ave.
Nebraska
Bellevue: #11527 at 3811 Twin Creek Drive.
Nevada
Las Vegas: Five stores: #6633 at 4810 W. Desert Inn Road, #10393 at 2510 E. Tropicana Ave., #10462 at 5181 W. Charleston Boulevard, #10872 at 3720 Lake Mead Boulevard, and #11647 at 6515 N. Buffalo Drive.
New Jersey
Cherry Hill: #9365 at 2000 Route 38
New York
Central Islip: #10840 at 101 S. Research Place
Staten Island: #11280 at 1756 Forest Ave.
Southold: #11976 at 53345 Route 25
North Dakota
Fargo: #10459 at 1310 25th St. S.
Ohio
Columbus: #2525 at 1505 W. 5th Ave.
Westerville: #11883 at 925 N. State St.
Texas
Brownsville: #9675 at 100 Expressway 83
Dallas: #10877 at 3403 W. Illinois Ave.
Rosenberg: #11302 at 27943 S.W. Freeway
Laredo: #11565 at 2201 Chestnut
Waco: #13332 at 4300 W. Waco Drive
West Virginia
Tridelphia: #11213 at 36 Fort Henry Road.
I didn’t count so don’t know how many are listed, but that’s what I could find.
The End of the World is NEAR!!!
“We bitch and moan about paying five dollars for a gallon gas while we sit in line and wait to pay five dollars for 16 ounces of coffee.”
As a matter of fact, today I got a medium coffee, and my wife got an iced coffee, with additives, for a total of $3.85 at Starbucks.
People ranting it costs $5.00 a cup do so to make some point, unsupported by fact.
Starbucks was the best thing to happen to donut shops, 7-Eleven and McDonalds, all of whom RAISED their coffee prices.
The subject of the article is the area called the “Inland Empire” which suffers a lot of housing foreclosures, by people who unfortunately overextended themselves.
So expensive coffee is probably just as well left out of their budgets.
There is a new Starbucks about to open in my town, and none closing that I yet now of. But if some close, fine with me.
Other specialty coffee shops make better coffee. But I DO NOT rejoice in the demise of American businesses, or the troubles of American citizens.
It would be better if everybody could afford expensive coffee!!
Thank you. FR is so great. Thanks again!
QT is beverage heaven.
Yes, their frappucinos are excellent, unlike their coffee, which is crap.
Yes, their frappucinos are excellent, unlike their coffee, which is crap.
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Amen, I can’t drink Starbucks coffee, too strong, it’s like motor oil to me. What kind of high end coffee house doesn’t even stock light cream. I need a quart of half and half to make a Starbucks coffee change color.
Who the hell goes to Starbucks and orders regular coffee???Nobody I’ve ever been behind in line of (gr?).
Curious that so many people aren't aware that Free Republic is a world-wide forum
Still don't know what the @*@#($&@*!) "inland" means.
Ahem
“Who the hell goes to Starbucks and orders regular coffee???”
Me. I’m a strong black coffee guy. From my mother, who drank hers that way. And from living some time in Europe, tasting some pretty strong brew.
But everybody can take their coffee anyway they like. Flavored, sugered, milked, creamed, foamed, iced of hot.
And as I said, it would be good if everybody could afford expensive coffee. My taste for the plain variety keeps my cost down.
What is so "Imperial" about a friggin desert with tract housing anyway?
Brain dead eh. Right in the excerpt it states: “five of the eight California locations to be shuttered are in the Inland area.”
The link obviously worked by the responses to the article prior to yours. I can’t be held responsible for the links of the newspapers should they cancel them, or change them.
Sorry you started off your day with some bad coffee or something. It’s truly sad, and saddest of all is your attitude.
There is no equivalence between the price of commodity like gas and a specialty product like an individual cup of gourmet coffee.
Gas is a bulk item with a very small variation between vendors. Comparing Starbucks to gas is like saying that a restaurant is ripping people off with a $50 filet minon when feeder calves go for 49 cents a pound.
If you want to compare gas to coffee, compare gas to unroasted coffee in burlap sacks.
It’s okay. It was funnier the second time!
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