07.17.2008 11:44 pm
Starbucks to close 16 St. Louis-area stores
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Starbucks Corp. has named 16 company-owned stores in the St. Louis area that it plans to close. Starbucks currently has about 80 stores in the St. Louis area.
Earlier this month, the company announced 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. (Map of stores closing across the nation.)
Starbucks had been aggressively expanding in the St. Louis area and across the nation. But the company has seen its profits decline as a faltering economy led some consumers to cut back on spending.
Here is a list of the area stores that will be closing, according to the Starbucks website:
- Clayton and Baxter, 14815 Clayton Road, Chesterfield
- Highway N & Highway 40, 7827 Highway N, Dardenne Prairie
- Graham & I 270, 1261 Graham Road, Florissant
- Nameoki & Johnson, 3457 Nameoki Road, Granite City
- Howdershell & Dunn, 6045 Howdershell Road, Hazelwood
- West Florissant at Lucas & Hunt, 8031 West Florissant Avenue, Jennings
- Highway K & Weldon Spring, 4581 Highway K, O’Fallon, Mo.
- Elm & State Highway-370, 3788 Elm Street, St. Charles
- Union Station, 1820 Market Street, St. Louis
- Euclid & Laclede, 9 North Euclid Avenue, St. Louis
- 7th & Russell, 2000 South 7th Street, St. Louis
- Telegraph & Erb, 6070 H Telegraph Road, south St. Louis County
- Manchester & Sappington, 10025 Manchester Road, Warson Woods
- Highway 100 & South Pointe, 3081 Phoenix Center Drive, Washington, Mo.
- Lockwood & McClure, 234 West Lockwood, Webster Groves
- Highway 94 & O’Fallon Road, 5851 Westwood Drive, Weldon Spring
These stores are closing faster than Mike Smith closed Tipsheet. Let’s send an email to Mike Smith at mikesmith@post-dispatch.com and tell him to FREE TIPSHEET! Then let’s get a cup of joe…
I never did like Starbucks, only been once or twice. They over saturated the area and it serves them right. I hate the one at Delmar & North South because it’s on a bad corner and is an accident waiting to happen; backs up traffic badly going into Clayton. They must have paid off the officials in order to put one there. Obviously no one did a traffic study.
I derive a certain pleasure from watching Starbucks collapse under its own weight. Their aggressive expansion strategy included targeting mom and pop coffee houses by offering landlords double and sometimes triple the rent that these small businesses could afford. So goes the comeuppance of greed as the purveyors of burnt coffee and Wal Mart-style expansion tactics are now forced to scale back their burnt coffee operations. Sigh.
The one in Hazelwood just got built and opened up maybe a little over a year ago. It’s always busy and I stop in on my way into work constantly. I’m not a hug fan of paying so much for coffee. But the White Mocha is pretty dang good. Good news is that McDonalds is expanding its premium stuff. but for now…there goes convenience.
That’s crazy. The one at Elm & 370 has only been open for just around a year. What a waste — and now a brand new vacant building.
It would be nice to see some of these Starbuck’s re-open as Mom & Pop shops. Most of these stores are in very nice, newer free standing buildings. What a waste.
I hate to hear the Soulard starbucks is going away. It was brand new, and a great place to have a quiet cup of coffee and chat with friends.
Sorry to hear that any business is closing, but I personally will not be affected. I can’t justify paying the prices that Starbucks charges. Plus, their coffee tastes “burned” to my palat. I prefer White Castle coffee and McDonalds’ new blend.
Yeaaahhh! Mine survived the cut!
the horror… the horror… fewer Starbucks. No good. Now we need to get a few Dunkin Donuts in town. They have good coffee. There are quite a few newer stores in this list. Oh well, let’s see how well the Mom&Pop shops do. It’s getting increasingly difficult to get a decent cup of coffee, bagel or donut in this town.