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www.fastcompany.com · Sep 28

Starbucks store closures: See a list of locations that have shuttered across the country in latest coffeehouse cull

Last week, Starbucks Coffee Company announced it would close around 250 stores in North America. That’s a cull of 1% of its roughly 18,000 locations in the region. However, the coffee giant did not disclose a list of which specific locations would close. But thanks to some media reports and Reddit sleuths, we now have a much clearer idea of the affected stores. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? As Fast Company reported last week, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams announced on Thursday that the coffee chain would close “approximately 250 coffeehouses later this week.” Grams said the closures were because the company did not believe the doomed locations could achieve “a path to acceptable financial performance.” The COO also said the stores could not “consistently deliver the experience we want for customers.” The announcement was no doubt a shock to many Starbucks employees, but it also created uncertainty because Starbucks did not provide a list of locations that would be closing. This likely left many staff and customers wondering, “Is my store on the closing list?” Four days after the announcement, Starbucks still hasn’t released a list of closing locatio…

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