Nine area Starbucks to shut down
Rocky Mountain News
Published July 18, 2008 at 1:57 p.m.
Updated July 18, 2008 at 1:57 p.m.
Starbucks released the locations of the 600 stores it will be closing. It includes nine in Colorado. The stores will be closed between now and the middle of next year.
The closings is a bid by the Seattle-based company to boost its business and weed out unprofitable locations.
The company announced 50 stores late last week, saying those stores would be closed by the end of July. Those include four stores in Alabama, seven in Minnesota and eight in California.
Now the gourmet coffee retailer is detailing all stores slated for closure. Including the eight other stores, California will now lose 88 stores with two each in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and 10 in San Diego.
Florida will lose 59 stores, including three each in Tampa and Palm Beach Gardens. Louisiana will lose 13 stores, nine of them in Baton Rouge.
The company announced earlier this month that it would close 600 company-owned stores in the U.S. starting in July and continuing through the first half of the next fiscal year. But Starbucks didn’t say which locations would be shut down, until now.
The move to close the stores is a turnabout from Starbucks’ aggressive expansion plans. But the company curtailed those plans as it saw traffic and its profits decline recently as the faltering economy has led some consumers to question their spending on pricey coffee.
Local closings:
121st & Sheridan, 12161 Sheridan Blvd., Broomfield
Conifer Town Center, 27191 Main St., Conifer
16th & Wynkoop, 1750 16th St., Denver
Colorado & Alameda, 320 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver
Denver Newspaper Agency Building,101 W. Colfax Ave., Denver
Colfax & Wadsworth, 1509 Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood
Colorado 119 & Martin,15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont
The Shops at Centerra, 5897 Sky Pond Dr., Loveland
Colorado 34 & Denver, 1385 N. Denver Ave., Loveland
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July 18, 2008
2:28 p.m.
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Mr_Hyde writes:
Looks like the poor people who went to these stores will have to walk across the street to get their Starbucks!
July 18, 2008
2:31 p.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
Only 3,896,234,775 more to go!
July 18, 2008
3:51 p.m.
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BroncoDan writes:
WOOHOO!!! Starbucks $UCK$...Peaberry is way better anyway!
July 18, 2008
3:58 p.m.
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Dude writes:
overkill finally caught up with them i see.
July 18, 2008
4:25 p.m.
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platoro79 writes:
Too bad they didn't include the one(only one!) here in the San Luis Valley!
July 18, 2008
5:04 p.m.
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msmcarol writes:
Being laid off from a job is pretty scary. If it has never happened to you, good for you. In our haste to be anti big business, we sometimes forget the employees that will be out of work. In this economy, it could be devastating for them.
July 18, 2008
5:30 p.m.
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SirRealist writes:
Such a display of negativism about a truly American company that treats its people well, and provides a product that (obviously) millions of people enjoy. Alas, I suppose it is true, that old phrase I heard many, many years ago that says it is far easier for people to be negative than positive.
msmcarol, I wanted to mention that according to a friend who is a Starbuck's manager, it's his understanding that these people will be relocated to other stores rather than being laid off - certainly good news.
July 18, 2008
6:54 p.m.
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LOUIE writes:
Wouldn't be so bad if that 4 dollar cup of coffee would burn in the gas tank.
July 18, 2008
7:04 p.m.
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MRSTTYLER writes:
NO WAY THAT IS ALL GOOD BYE BYE YOU GO
July 18, 2008
7:16 p.m.
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nonative writes:
You people piss and moan about Wal mart but the crappy coffee is ok to run mom and pop out of business?
Good to see them go. 5$ coffee you poeple are idiots.
July 18, 2008
9:17 p.m.
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infidel91 writes:
You morons hate Starbucks not because it is awful and causes misery; you actually hate it because it is successful and popular. Which makes you worthy of nothing but contempt. Sure, go ahead and claim that their coffee suks. You probably weren't around (as an adult) when the other alternatives were Denny's, 7-11, and frickin' Maxwell House in your home coffee maker. Yeah, they're closing the one I go to nearly every day; but at least it will make the corporation healthier, just to pi$$ you losers off . . . Hahahahahahahaha! Dream all you want -- capitalism's never going away!
July 19, 2008
6:52 p.m.
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LadyBird112 writes:
Maybe some of us like to treat ourselves to good coffee, which, by the way, doesn't actually cost $5. Check your facts. It's our business and we don't deserve to be called idiots for it, just people who like good coffee. I much prefer Starbucks to the mom and pop independent stores, which often cost more and don't taste any better than bird poo. Not that I've tried bird poo. You get what you pay for and I pay for good taste and quality. Maybe you went to a bad store where the baristas didn't know how to make coffee, believe me, it happens. And I will say that having 3 stores on one block is overkill, to say the very least. I wondered when that would cause problems.