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

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I’m shedding no tears over the closure of Starbucks in Washington. There were two locations in town, including one inside the new Target store. This can only be good news for my favorite downtown coffee shop, Mannwell’s Coffee Alley. I’m going to go have one of their awesome (and really inexpensive compared to Starbucks) chai lattes to celebrate.

— Ginny

7:58 am July 18th, 2008

It’s funny that many of these are recently opened stores. The ones off of Hwy. N in Dardenne Prairie and the one off 94 & O’Fallon Road have literally been there for only about 9 months.

They really did get out of hand with saturating the market. The one in Dardenne was one of three in a 1 mile radius. And I’m not exaggerating. They have one across the street at Hawk Ridge and another one in Target that literally shares the parking lot with the one that is closing.

— Jared

8:00 am July 18th, 2008

That is too bad. I will have a cup of Pike Place and mourn the loss.

— B. Wilson

8:06 am July 18th, 2008

…there goes my everything.

— lil'dude

8:07 am July 18th, 2008

with $8 cups of coffee, they will be closing more than 600 stores.

— dan hutton

8:14 am July 18th, 2008

Unfortunately, it only makes sense for Starbucks to close their quietest stores. The Webster Groves store on Lockwood is closing, and the other Starbucks in Webster is populated by skinny high school students with venti frappuccinos, fussy college kids, and some seriously overworked baristas. It’s no relaxing place to be. I’ll miss the better staff at the Lockwood store and only hope they each find new jobs quickly. Thanks for the coffees, y’all.

— Leslie

8:28 am July 18th, 2008

One can only hope that the overbuilt & ugly Walgreens will be next. There will be an emerging market for anyone who can figure out how to use retail spaces with drive-through windows. I’m thinking a combo shirt laundry, video rental, pizza parlor, fast food. Just pull up and tell them what you’re there for and window #2 will hand it through the window…

— IlPense

8:36 am July 18th, 2008

Don’t worry about the empty buildings — I’m sure some banking institution will come along and build yet another local office to serve our banking needs. We certainly need another local office because one every 20 feet or so is not enough!

— Boboolie

8:47 am July 18th, 2008

Do you think if Starbucks made the price of a cup of coffee reasonable they would be closing 25% of the market?

— Jim

8:49 am July 18th, 2008

xpresso or should I say Josh “I’m Sloshed” Hancock,

The reason it closed is becasue of you. give it up. Stop changing you name and leaving stupid comments all over the place, and it may open back up. What’s sad, is that it seems like you need it open. Like its an addiction. It’s pretty sad that leaving childish comments on message boards gets you off, and then when it gets shut down, you cry like a baby

LOSER!!!!!!!!

— Really???

8:53 am July 18th, 2008

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