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
I’m just glad they didn’t close the Starbucks at 6th & Olive. I could handle losing my 5:30am French-press.
North County was hit pretty hard with these closures. Amazingly, there are two stores in Clayton literally walking distance from one another — untouched.
I am glad to see them leave because there java is no good. Try going to the Mom and Pop places especially SHAW’s coffee. The best coffe in St. Louis.
Americans LOVE to see icons fall…we also love comeback stories, but I don’t sense one here. I do think that greed plays a part in this…I also think that their coffee tastes like burnt socks boiled in bong water.
Great story: a girl whom I used to work with was mall-walking in the West County Center with her mom one morning before the mall opened…she said their was a “hideous” smell wafting through the place that smelled like the jungle house at the zoo. A passer-by commented–”oh that’s just the folks at Starbuck’s ‘brewing’ their coffee.”
YUCK.
I gave up drinking coffee over 15 years ago. I laugh when I think about all the money I saved since the Starbucks phenomona started.
I met one or two match.com dates at the Clayton and Baxter store because they had few customers. The dates were lousy, for what its worth.
I never did like Starbucks. Starbucks collapse under its own weight. with $8 cups of coffee, they will be closing more than 600 stores. I’m all for Mom and Pop places. The best coffee in town…St. Louis, on the HILL…is SHAW’s Coffee. They have great coffee, very nice environment, etc., but most of all lots of friendly people that goes with a great cup of java…only at SHAW’s Coffee…located on the HILL.
This bites! I am a self admitted Starbuck’s addict and consider it my one indulgence. Thank goodness the ones on Olive Blvd. aren’t closing! That’s my start to the 12 hour workday!
They’re closing the store at 7th & Russell? I think that one still has the grand opening sign up! It just opened. Could they not see that in a few months they were going to start closing these stores enough to not build a new location?
Starbucks needs to fire some people and start again. Their business strategy is extremely wasteful.
Starbucks expanded far too quickly and put stores in places that would not support them (Graham & I-270) or where they were vulnerable to established competitors (Clayton & Baxter, a stones’ throw for a very busy St. Louis Bread Co.). They far overestimated the market for overpriced coffee and niche products.
How many “mom and pop” coffee shops existed before Starbucks? Starbucks can be credited with creating the demand for upscale coffee and giving a market place for the so-called “mom and pop” shops. By the way, how many
This is the free market at work. Starbucks lacked the demand to sustain their aggressive growth plans, so now they are adjusting. Their company as a whole is not going anywhere. Check out most Starbucks locations during peak hours.