Posted on 07/12/2022 12:41:30 PM PDT by grundle
Starbucks is closing 16 stores in Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
The closures are due to "challenging incidents" that make stores unsafe for workers and customers, Starbucks says.
The stores will close by the end of July.
Starbucks is permanently closing 16 locations around the US by the end of July, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
"After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate, to open new locations with safer conditions," a Starbucks spokesperson told Insider. The incidents involve drug use in stores by customers and other members of the public reported by workers.
The closures are a move to make Starbucks locations safer for customers and employees, the company said, echoing a letter from senior VPs of US operations Debbie Stroud and Denise Nelson sent to employees on July 11. The company also gives local leaders the authority to close bathrooms, reduce seating, and take other measures to keep conditions safe for employees.
See the full list of store closures here:
Santa Monica & Westmount, West Hollywood, California
Hollywood & Western, Los Angeles, California
1st & Los Angeles (Doubletree), Los Angeles, California
Hollywood & Vine, Hollywood, California
Ocean Front Walk & Moss, Santa Monica, California
2nd & San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
10th & Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4th & Morrison, Portland, Oregon
Gateway, Portland, Oregon
23rd & Jackson, Seattle, Washington
Roosevelt Square, Seattle, Washington
E. Olive Way, Seattle, Washington
505 Union Stn, Seattle, Washington
Westlake Center, Seattle, Washington
Hwy 99 & Airport Rd, Everett, Washington
Union Station Train Concourse, Washington, DC
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when will the big guys leave New York City.....Seven Eleven is closing stores in LA...
Oh no! Here come the coffee deserts.
You’d think The Amtrak Police would put a stop to this nonsense.
Something I have come to realize is that when you are in this class of money, you care more about the opinions of your liberal friends than you do about money.
I’ve been in less challenging locations where the Starbucks bathroom is clearly just a safe injection site.
Must be all them conservatives the Starbucks CEO said he didn’t want in their store.
Starbucks can bite the dust and go out of business for all I care.
They ought to serve what the customer wants...That’s good business....
I noticed the same thing. I take that as an indication of how bad things are.
Like being told to meet someone for coffee south of Martin Luther King Blvd. near the corner of Rosa Parks and John Lewis Plaza Drive. Kevlar vests optional.
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They’ll probably have memorials with soy candles, teddy bears, syringes, and dime bags at these locations.
Actually Northern New England...
I’ve been through that intersection probably a thousand times and most tourist driving through wouldn’t even know it unless someone told them or they looked at the signs. That intersection looks like a zillion other intersections in LA.
Wow. A failure to keep the prime location at Hollywood and Vine shows a failure at executive decision making skills.
Bad enough that the derelicts broke their little bottle of Love Potion #9!
Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown Starbucks...
Funny thing about racism ... it was not considered racist by the Left when I noted (back in the 90s) that Planned Barrenhood, while closing “clinics” in white areas in Texas, were somehow seeming to stay open in minority areas.
Yep, for starters.
Dear Lord, Thank you for leading me to live far away from those areas. Amen.
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