SEATTLE
Starbucks Corp. has named all 600 company-owned stores it plans to close in a bid to boost its business and weed out unprofitable locations.
Five stores are in Virginia, including two on the Peninsula. Stores at 1984 Power Plant Parkway in Hampton and 12300 Jefferson Ave. in Newport News were on the list along with locations in Spotsylvania, Gainesville and Winchester.
The company announced 50 stores late last week, saying those stores would be closed by the end of July.
Now the gourmet coffee retailer is detailing all stores slated for closure. California will lose 88 stores, Florida will lose 59, and Louisiana will lose 13.
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.
Staff writer Cindy Clayton contributed to this report.
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If you can read this, you, like me have far too much time on your hands.
As a Starbucks stockholder, I am happy to see such the brand name is so provocative.
Yuck
I did enjoy the blueberry fraps they had last summer, but they don't even offer THAT any more. They offer Strawberry, but I only get that when I have to drive my son to Starbucks and even THEN, only when he's paying...so to get him to stop asking, "Are you sure you don't want anything?"
I think they make the coffee for caffeine addicts who HAVE to keep coming back. They don't make money off us casual Folgers-loving coffee drinkers, mainly because they don't think to offer a smooth tasting coffee for us.
Starbucks.
Those who frequent Starbucks and can willingly afford and pay $4 for a cup of coffee have no right to complain about the economy!
What a dilemma it is to have to choose between a 16oz coffee or a gallon of gas!
7-11
has some of the most horrendous tasting coffee in the world!! It's burnt and bitter! Obviously, some of the readers have never trekked outside the confines of our lovely (cough, cough) state and visited the wonderful Pacific Northwest. Tough times are hitting everyone and everything, it's a pity. Thankfully, none of the southside locations were on their list of store closings.
Starbucks ... what a joke
I know good coffee when I taste it and Starbucks does not even get on my list ... I do a lot of traveling and I know for sure that the Truck Stops are the best and as far as local stores.. 7-11, Millers and some of the Wilco's have the best coffee... and when I am home and drinking coffee then it is Maxwell House all the way.. So am I upset that they + are closing 600+ Starbuks Stores... NOT AT ALL!!! GOOD BYE EXPENSIVE COFFEE !! gas is getting higher so why pay for the gas and the coffee that will just "run" right through your car and you.
Dang!
Someone didn't get their cup of joe this morning!! : -)
Who Care?
It's the worst coffee on the planet! Now the college kids will have to go somewhere else to show off the laptops Mommy and Daddy bought them. It was always a giggle to watch 400 pound women order a frappacino with whipped cream, two shots of syrup, chocolate shavings and Sweet-n-Low. Here's a clue--get some decent coffee (see: Dunkin Donuts or Barnie's) and charge a reasonable price and stop having your snot-nosed 'barristas' correct people for ordering a large by calling it a 'venti' whatever that is. Real people don't go to Starbucks.