Posted on 10/04/2023 3:21:19 AM PDT by dennisw
Starbucks is shuttering seven of its downtown San Francisco locations over the next several weeks, the company confirmed to SFGATE.
“Each year as a standard course of business, we evaluate the store portfolio to determine where we can best meet our community and customers’ needs. This includes opening new locations, identifying stores in need of investment or renovation, exploring locations where an alternative format is needed and, in some instances, re-evaluating our footprint,” Starbucks spokesperson Sam Jefferies said in a statement.
Employees at the seven stores were notified Tuesday that the locations are closing, Jefferies said. All affected employees will be given the option to transfer to a different store, he added.
Jefferies declined to provide comment as to whether crime in the downtown area was a factor in the decision to close the stores.
“Determining how and where we invest is done through a standard process of evaluating our store portfolio annually to determine where we can best meet our community and customers’ needs,” Starbucks Regional Vice President for Northern California Jessica Borton said in a letter sent to affected employees. “This includes opening new locations, identifying stores in need of investment or renovation, and exploring locations where an alternative format is needed. It also includes making hard decisions about where our stores are located. This year those discussions have resulted in making the very difficult decision to close seven of the stores in our area.” Starbucks recently opened a pickup-only location at 333 Market St. and will invest over $2.5 million in renovations at four other stores across the city, Jefferies said. The company has 59 stores throughout the city, leaving 52 following the upcoming closures.
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Not as many office workers these days. As pre-scamdemic.
I trust democrats suffer most.
Where are all the panhandlers gonna get their morning coffee?
They obviously don’t use the Starbucks bathrooms there anymore…
Starbucks allows anybody at anytime without a purchase to sit in their stores and use their bathrooms. Now? Back to sittin and poopin in the streets
Well that’s 7 less restrooms for the bums to make a wreck of.
What goes around comes around. Starbucks has supported the politicians who have allowed this to happen.
Yes
Guess it’s not appealing enough to sip that latte and nibble that muffin while walking through the street with excrement getting on the bottom of your shoes. But it would be a bit out of class to say it might leave a bad taste in your mouth.
wy69
We can thank the progressives in conducting this large scale experimenter on what happens to thriving cities when you reward bad behavior and penalize good behavior.
Don’t enforce laws you get more crime.
Raise taxes on businesses and businesses leave and you end up with less revenue coming into the treasury.
One of our illegals has toe Juan Valdez.
Just look for a Hispanic guy with a burro…
“I’ll have a large coffee and a dindu muffin.”
FU Starfux.
Actually, no workers at all. It is widely reported that the SF downtown has been deserted.
Starbucks is among the last to go
In those neighborhoods Juan would be robbed and killed and his burro would be roasting in a makeshift street bbq
Starbucks doesn’t take SH!T from San Fran…. LMAO!
Damn. This is going to put all of San Fiasco into withdrawals from monkey crap coffee.
“Jefferies declined to provide comment as to whether crime in the downtown area was a factor in the decision to close the stores.”
Gotta keep the facade running that crime is NOT a problem for them.
Sounds like a lot, but they have a hundred more. There is literally a Starbucks on almost every corner in the Financial District.
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