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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Starbucks releases full list of 600 store closures, including 29 in Dallas-Fort Worth area

By Teresa Gubbins

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Eager to counteract rabid rumor-mongering, Starbucks released the full list of 600 stores it will close by next year, to include the following 29 stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area:

  • 9 in Dallas
  • 4 in Arlington
  • 1 each in DeSoto, Duncanville, Farmers Branch, Garland, Mesquite, Red Oak, and White Settlement
  • 3 in Fort Worth
  • 2 in Frisco
  • 4 in Plano

Of the 44 states with closures, the largest will occur in California, with 88; Florida, with 59; and Texas, with 57; Starbucks has approximately 11,000 locations in the U.S.

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Fezziwig

Fezziwig Anonymous

I am so sad about losing the one on Greenville.

1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Chris Kidd

Chris Kidd Verified

Speaking of the greenville ave location, I have a feeling that space will probably be filled by a indie coffee shop/cafe, as that location is ground zero for all the neighbors.

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Alex Bentley

Alex Bentley Staff

No surprise that it's on the list, but it's kind of funny/sad that the 75/Park Lane location in Plano just opened a few months ago. No track record = expendable, but it still seems such a waste to build a store just to shut it down soon thereafter.

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Andrew

Andrew Anonymous

Starbucks has gone to far by stutting down my neighborhood store (lower Greenville) I guess it was due to volume. If you have to wait in line for less than 20 minutes for a $5 cup of coffee, then a store is unprofitable. They should compensate everyone who lives within a certain distance with some gift cards. Schools have to provide buses if a student lives more than two miles from a school. What if you now live more than two miles from a Starbuck's? They were the ones who got us addicted.

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JW Richard

JW Richard Verified

May true local coffee house being to reign!

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John McClelland

John McClelland Verified

Ok what logic is there in closing the one at 423/Lebanon in Frisco when they just opened it a couple months ago?

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Susan Thornton

Susan Thornton Verified

Hurray! Opportunities for coffee entrepreneurs! Long live the independent business!

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Laura Evans

Laura Evans Staff

Of course they shut down the stand-alone ones near me so now I have to go to either Target or the mall. That's just super

1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Erin Rice

Erin Rice Verified

So uh, can we get a dang Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf around here?

1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Bill Holston

Bill Holston Verified

I buy all my coffee at White Rock Coffee, because it is fair trade certified. A bonus is that it supports musicians. I also love Opening Bell, but White Rock is in the east dallas neighborhood. I patronized Legal Grounds quite a bit when my son was an Woodrow. Local Independent is where its at, and fair trade is a big plus in my book.

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AnnMarie Wilson

AnnMarie Wilson Verified

I heard White Rock Coffee was excellent - too far away from me though.. sigh.

Anyway, I read the listing for our area (Garland) and forgive me, it was laugh-out-loud time.

I live in South, old Garland. We have a Starbuck at Centerville and NW Highway and another at Broadway Blvd and I-30. The third location is at the much touted Firewheel Mall in North Garland. (Okay my bias is showing - south Garland gets Wally-World and Dollar Stores, north Garland gets tax breaks and new developments).

Guess which of the Starbucks in Garland is closing? The Firewheel Mall location!

I love irony at times.

1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Pavel Lishin

Pavel Lishin Verified

Everyone seems excited, imagining that this will lead to independent coffee shops sprouting like mushrooms after rain. I'm wondering, if Barstucks couldn't make a profit, will little Mom'n'Cop coffeeterias?

1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Alex Bentley

Alex Bentley Staff

David Pavel, I'm just guessing here, but the expectations of profitability of one branch of multinational corporation like Starbucks might differ a little from those for mom & pop shops.

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Scott Doyle

Scott Doyle Verified

True enough Bentley, but not having corporate fatcats telling you how to run your bidness doesn't mean you're going to magically stay solvent over a decent period of time.

I don't drink coffee, btw. Do not care.

1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

RockitScience Anonymous

I'm sorry to here they are closing so many..workers will be out of jobs... but has every one gone do nuts about buying coffee at the local what ever joint, that somehow they forgot they could make-it at home just how they want it, when they want it, and how much they want, with no lines???
Just because someone has a great job, makes a good living, does not make good judgement to so spend $5.00 on one cup of coffee that is only 4 or 10 onces... What are you people thinking!!?? We work to hard for what we get.

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Scott Miller

Scott Miller Verified

Rocketscience

Why do you hate American corporate monoculture so much?

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Clay213 Anonymous

I chuckle anytime I hear the word local used in conjunction with a product that is shipped thousands of miles.

Same with fresh.

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JW Richard

JW Richard Verified

Well, I bet when someone mentions "local grocery store" or "local car dealership", you're rolling on the ground. :-)

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David Gouldin

David Gouldin Staff

RockitScience, don't know about you, but I don't have an espresso machine at home. A good one can easily run you $2k, so I doubt any but the most serious coffee lovers are pulling a good homemade shot.

Clay, I'd still consider it "fresh" if they roast their own beans like Dunn Bros. and White Rock do. It's only after coffee is roasted that the clock really starts to tick.

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Brett Hoerner

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AnnMarie Wilson: "I love irony at times."

Er, weren't you in another thread complaining about the increased cost of gas and food stretching your budget? But you drive from your home office to a coffee hole and buy $4 hot flavored water?

Just sayin'.

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luniz Anonymous

you live in garland and WR coffee is too far? i come down from frickin plano every other saturday.

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AnnMarie Wilson

AnnMarie Wilson Verified

I haven't 'bought' coffee from anywhere but my own kitchen in probably 2 years now. So thanks Brett - but you're 'not sayin'- and I didn't say I had been buying. I stated the locations and that was all.

I would love to support a local coffee place; as a small biz owner we need to support each other! But there isn't a local one close to me.

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AnnMarie Wilson

AnnMarie Wilson Verified

"you live in garland and WR coffee is too far? i come down from frickin plano every other saturday. "

Good for you. I don't. I work long hours instead - my clients sort of insist their projects be completed.

I also am not going to drive that far (total time there and back for me - including in the place) would be about 45 minutes depending on traffic. Maybe you don't consider that much, I do.

The S.O. never even had a chance to leave his home last week between Sunday and last night coming here - work took all the time instead. That is our lives.

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Brett Hoerner

Brett Hoerner Verified

My bad AnnMarie, you know what they say about making assumptions. Sadly the assumption would probably hold true for many people in DFW complaining about shortness of cash these days.

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jerryt Anonymous

WR coffee is my favorite also. I drive from Forney to buy the "green" beans and roast them at home. THEN! ya got the perfect cup o' joe!!

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jtmbls

jtmbls Anonymous

Forney Texas! Yeehaw! How is the home of the Jackrabbits? (I can talk smack because I actually lived there when it was still a one-horse town.) All that development and they still can't put in a decent coffee shop?

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JAVA4DIVA

JAVA4DIVA Anonymous

If all the Starbucks' store closures were genuinely a practical measure to lighten the Starbucks mothership of some deadweight to keep her afloat, I'd grab some ballast and heave-ho.

In "A Message from Howard" posted on the Starbucks web site on July 8, Schultz said the 600 closing stores were underperforming. "Poor real estate decisions that were made, coupled with a very troubled economy, convinced us that these stores would not reach acceptable levels of profitability." Every statement from Starbucks -- then and since -- has tried to leave the impression that a clever Scientific Formula had been devised to determine which stores would get the axe. More and more, that formula resembles one of Baldrick's "cunning plans" from the BlackAdder series.

One begins to detect that Starbucks' cull has more politics and less real financial formulae to it. Spurred -- and spurred hard -- by Starbucks aficionados who have organised to protest the closing of particular stores, "Schultz's List" is drawing closer examination by business owners, civic leaders, sanguine business journalists and bloggers, and it appears not all the stores on the Starbucks Kill List can be neatly lumped into the "underperforming" pigeonhole. Nor are they the scion of recent careless real estate acquisitions. (For more on this, check these: http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/07... - and - http://blog.myspace.com/blackjack4fun "Strange Brew...")

Uncomfortably, Schultz's decisions since his return to the helm remind me more of a get-action-fast zealot out to prove "I told you so!" rather than the well-informed, carefully considered decisions of a good business leader.

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