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Posted on 09/24/2026 2:02:52 PM PDT by dennisw
Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week.
It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024.
Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe and laid off 900 non-retail employees.
In a letter to employees, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams said the locations targeted either aren’t delivering acceptable financial results or can’t provide the kind of experience that Starbucks wants for customers and employees.
The company didn’t say Thursday which coffeehouses will close or how many are located in the U.S. It also didn’t say how many of the affected coffeehouses are unionized.
More than 700 U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late 2021, but Starbucks doesn’t support the unionization effort and the union and the company have yet to reach a labor agreement.
Grams said Starbucks is continuing to retrofit its North American coffeehouses to make them cozier and more inviting. The company expects 1,500 stores will be retrofitted by Sept. 30, which is the end of Starbucks’ fiscal year.
“This progress has given us a clearer view of the performance of every coffeehouse,” Grams said in his letter. “While most are benefiting from this overall momentum, some coffeehouses continue to underperform despite the hard work and commitment of all of you.”
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People are not getting amped up on caffeine like they used to pre-Covid. Plus Starbucks libs are closing down stores that are in marginal locations...Too ghetto for their bottom line.
Is there a list of these stores?
Interesting. Coffee is very profitable for retailers. Lots of coffee establishments have opened up with very good coffee. Competition is great.
Part of Starbucks’ turn to wokeness was opening up marginal stores in bad areas. That may have felt good but was not a viable business strategy in the long term.
It says in the article that SB hasn’t announced that yet.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91612436/starbucks-stores-closing-list-doomed-locations-grow-250-cafes
No
Are the closings a response to some stores wanting to bring in unions?
I don’t drink their overpriced swill.
Not to mention Starbucks opened up their restrooms to the general public, to demonstrate their purity of wokeness, which was a disaster. It ran off customers.
Starbucks, like Budlight, forgot that they have to sell a product to make money. Ideology does not make money.
Don’t know if they still do that or not.
Just relocate them all to ghettoes and pass out free entitlement coffees. That’ll take care of your financial woes.
“I don’t drink their overpriced swill.”
I never drank a latte in my life. Disgusting swill. Starbucks made its mega profits from lattes, iced coffee and other bllshit beverages.
I once went to a Starbucks and ordered coffee...
The pencil-necked geek said “What flavor?”
I said “Black coffee...”
He then looked surprised and said “You, you just want plain coffee???”
I said, “Of course...”
He then said “Oh Wow...Okaaaaay...”
That was my one and only time in a Starbucks....
I once went to a Starbucks and ordered coffee...
The pencil-necked geek said “What flavor?”
I said “Black coffee...”
He then looked surprised and said “You, you just want plain coffee???”
I said, “Of course...”
He then said “Oh Wow...Okaaaaay...”
That was my one and only time in a Starbucks....
Our Midwest town of 17,000 now has SIX coffee shops... 2 Starbucks, 1 Scooters, and 3 locally owned. It’s as if making coffee at home has become a lost art!
Oh no. Where are all the rainbow alphabet people and trannies going to go for their daily cat pi$$?
All of the “strikes” also probably had an impact.
But, they also have a lot more competition popping up - both smaller chains and unique mom and pop coffee shops which are growing in popularity in some communities.
We still swill.
But I make our PSL’s with my homemade pumpkin butter and espresso brewed in our little Bialetti.
Tastes divine. Far less sugar. And much less expensive.
Starbucks decided to expand. In the process they changed what had been a pretty successful model. Cafes designed to have people come in, sit down, relax, maybe do some work and chat with regulars.
Now they have drive through only and stores in such relaxing places as the Kroger.
People have not lost their appetite for way overpriced coffee the,7 Brothers out let in this one horse town seems to always have a line even though something like 40% are at tbe poverty level.
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