California to lose 88 stores, Florida to lose 59 and the list goes on ...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.
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.
My good times and pricey coffee at Starbucks may be coming to an end here in Florida.
" Please send me Starbucks "
.........Or it's back to Dunkin Donuts coffee for me.
Subject: Starbucks names all 600 stores to be closed 
