Smaller coffee shops neighboring chain-of-all-chains, Starbucks, told The Seattle Times they no longer fear being pushed out of business by their famous Frappucino-making competitor. While Starbucks was initially a threat to independent shops, they were able to channel the success of the chain and sustain viable businesses, too. Find out what this attitude has to do with you and job searching when you read more.
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Now that Starbucks has come forward with its official list of stores to close by the first half of 2009, some of the stores' regulars have banded together in launching a Save Our Starbucks campaign. On its website, the caffeine crusaders are asking other Starbucks lovers to "tell the world your Starbucks story and how much you value your local location."
The appeals from customers are coming to Starbucks in the form of letters, phone calls, and petitions. One woman, a facilities manager for a software company in Manhattan, said this of the Starbucks closing in her company's new office building: "Now that it's going away, we're devastated."
California, Florida, and Texas will see the most store closures, but proportionately Mississippi, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska will be losing the largest percentage of locations.
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No more need for the rumorville, because Starbucks has released a list of the 616 stores that will close their doors for good by June 2009. You may have just been getting to know the green-aproned staff at these locations, as most were opened sometime in the last two years.
The 616 of Starbucks's 7,087 total US stores were unprofitable and many could identify another Starbucks as neighbors.
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