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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OH NO! Mine is on the list. This is such a sad day. I LOVE my daily venti frappuccino. I cannot live without it so I guess I will have to go out of my way to go to a different Starbucks. Why? Why? I wish it wasn’t so.
Have no fear…eight o clock coffee makes a dark italian roast that brews up better than starbucks at half the price. You’ll have to figure out how to pose like an elite ‘bucky holding the eight o clock on your own.
I am genuinely sad to see the Webster Groves Starbucks close. Never mind that people are angry with the company. The employees are very hurt by this and probably are not feeling like “partners” right now. I can only ask what were they thinking when they so carefully selected such fine young people only eleven months ago and now are letting them go with two weeks severance. I will miss all of the delightful people, the strong coffee and the friendships I have made. Starbucks is more than a corporation like all businesses it is made up of people needing health care benefits, a lonely people like myself just wanting to chat with someone. Perhaps, this can not be supported by stockholders but these are certainly difficult times.
Good riddence to Starbucks. Overpriced coffee. BORING place to go. I got stuck going there with a group of people, and there was NOTHING on the menu I wanted. Not everyone likes coffee. Don’t cry over this, it’s just a cup of COFFEE. One cup of their COFFEE costs as much as my entire LUNCH. What a waste of money. Trendy people and their trendy habits.
The problem with Starbucks is human resources and quality… They used to offer a good product because they had “select” employees who were compensated well, had spectacular benefits, etc. When you have to hire people that don’t know what they are doing to higher other people that don’t know what they are doing because you are growing too fast, you get a disaster. It really is a shame… Now I hope Kaldi’s hires the talent and opens a fraction of these stores. The rest of the employees will need to go back to fast food.
“West Florissant at Lucas & Hunt, 8031 West Florissant Avenue, Jennings”
SERIOUSLY! Is ANYBODY surpised about that? I was more suprised when that opened on the site of the old Northland Mall. What will they closed next in Jennings… Banana Republic, GAP, H&M, Abercrombie, Nordstrom?
Oh wait… they can’t because those chains don’t have stores in North County… especially not so close to North St. Louis City.
In Jennings, approx 20% of the community lives in means that are BELOW the poverty line. It’s a sad but true fact of the last census in 2000.
It serves Starbuck’s right for having to close some of these stores. Not doing demographic research can be a REAL b**ch, huh?