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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Three Dallas-area Krispy Kreme stores close within the last month
Plano, Frisco, and Irving all went kaput. So much for the suburbs, man.
The lights are out at three Krispy Kreme stores, bringing the total number of places in the Dallas area that you can purchase their hot glazed diet busters down to four.
The stores that are outski include Irving, which closed "a few weeks ago"; Frisco, which closed "last month"; and Plano, which closed "last week," according to an employee at the Arlington branch.
Along with Arlington, other stores still churning out the high-calorie deep-fried ringlets of dough include Dallas, Grapevine, and Fort Worth.
According to the above-mentioned employee, the company is doing better than it was in 2007, when its fortunes dipped; but he said that one of the reasons the company IS doing better is that it continues to shut down stores that don't have good sales of its sugar-coated grease bombs.
The other two Texas stores are in Austin.
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david torres, verified:
How can you compete with EVERY grocery store, TARGET, i assume their in WALMART. It's like Starbucks...their EVERYWHERE. just my opinion...
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Mike Hathaway, verified:
I don't get the raving fan base. In the they're just donunts. I prefer to throw my donut money to the local business, like Lone Star Donuts on Beckley.
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alexander troup, verified:
Hey David the wild cannaibal....We are in the Metroplex of Corporate Consumerism..that has little to really do with Mom and Pop stores and the Community..then again...mass production doughnut lines....pretty big cheese for the company....A/T,....The poor quality of life...
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david torres, verified:
i loved Lone Star Donuts, when they had a store on Webb Chapel, near Bachman Lake, A LONG TIME AGO. but they started to disappear. Is Shipley's Donuts considered Mom n Pop?
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GiGi_Foulin, anonymous:
I never got on the bandwagon for donuts made by Krispy Kreme either. I especially didn't like their glaze donuts, they were too hard on the outside from all the glazed icing. I'll stick to the Asian owned and operated donut shops.
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Travis Bush, verified:
Son, Shipley's is an institution!
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Tracy Yost, verified:
when I was a tot, every sunday morning my dad would go to lone star donuts (on 183) and get the family breakfast :-)
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John Meyer, staff:
All right -- since on one else has copped to it -- I <em>LOVE</em> krispy kremes -- particularly the FREE one they hand you hot off the production line as you go through the purchase line in the stores.
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Jason Rice, verified:
John - that's what makes you a man's man: The willingness to proclaim what others merely whisper.
Well, that and this cigar fixation thing....
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John Meyer, staff:
<em>D'OH!</em>
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Mike Orren, verified:
And now, Fort Worth:
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/stor...
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What do you think?