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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Blog Comments: Rules of the Road

buy a cuisanart grind and brew, get maple bacon coffee beans from boca java and brew at home. great smell and great taste. know the maple bacon sounds gross, but it is really great. plus the coffee maker sounds like a fighter jet taking off, so you program it for when you want to wake up and you won’t need an alarm.

— waldo

11:45 am July 18th, 2008

Three Starbucks that I have frequented are listed (just didn’t go everyday!) It’s always sad to see a business close, I don’t like seeing the empty stores. There are still three that fall into my general commute. I agree that Dunkin’ Donuts would be a good addition to the local economy. Being a New Englander it’s something that we miss.

— baglady

11:48 am July 18th, 2008

Maybe they’re closing all those Starbucks to make room for more Walgreens.

— donnav

12:07 pm July 18th, 2008

Great-Starbucks opens on every corner out in O’fallon, puts the good coffeeshop out of business (Picasso’s) and now closes. Actually the one that affected Picasson’s is n’t closing, but I wish it was too. Good riddance.

— bizboy

12:14 pm July 18th, 2008

They were getting too far ahead of themselves with rapidly building that many stores in such a short span of time. With that and the economy crisis, it was only a matter of time. Aside from that, I dislike their overpriced coffee and they charge waaaayyy too much for internet access.

— cobbs25

12:25 pm July 18th, 2008

WHEW! Mine survived.

— DMc

1:05 pm July 18th, 2008

Can of off brand columbian coffee at Wal-mart: $6.88
Package of off brand sugar: $2.00
Jar of Vanilla Caramel creamer: $3.50
Total cost per cup of coffee: Priceless

— jrc

1:47 pm July 18th, 2008

ironic to see all the negative remarks about starbucks. don’t visit often, but when i do i ALWAYS get a quality product. hmmm, growing too fast, saturating the market, is the discussion about starbucks or ab’s dominance in the u.s. beer market?

— stressed1

1:52 pm July 18th, 2008

If Starbucks actually knew how to make a decent coffee, closing stores might be a sad thing. Unfortunately, they don’t now nor have they ever made a decent brew.

— josh

1:55 pm July 18th, 2008

Well one good thing about this site is that D.Walker hasn’t found it yet. I was having nightmares over his or her posts over on the AB site. As far as those walgreen’s go. did you ever notice the parking lots are almost always empty? how do they do it?

— headcheese

2:08 pm July 18th, 2008

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