Grieving Starbucks Closures

Minyanville [via Starbucks Gossip]: "The grief associated with losing a branch of a ubiquitous coffe chain can be hard, especially when finding an alternative location can require the use of the sun to navigate, a skill mostly lost to history. That and the ability to walk 100 feet." - Our local Starbucks is closing, so Bug and I decided to go grab come coffee the other night, gotta get it while the gettin's good. While I was at the drive-up window waiting on our drinks I asked the Barista if he knew when they were closing. He said he don't know, nobody knew. The kids that worked there over the summer were leaving to prepare for school and the manager didn't know if she could hire replacements because they're now short employees. I'm pretty sure most of the employees, or partners, will be ok, but I hope they give customers enough warning so we can get our last grande java chip frap, or grande mocha. We'll see.

Labels: Coffee

Exeter Starbucks closing

Well I can't say it's a surprise. Exeter is a funny little town. There are Starbucks in a couple of towns close by, their locations are on the highway, which I'm sure helps quite a bit. The Exeter Starbucks is on a heavily traveled road for Exeterites but that's about it. It didn't turn into the hangout for the kids like I see at a lot of local Starbucks. Exeter has a few mom-and-pop type coffee shops and we tend to support our own as a town, which is a good thing.

There's also a closure happening in Visalia, which sports eight locations. The Caldwell and Mooney Starbucks is closing, which is kind of strange because that's a super busy intersection.

Here's the complete list (pdf), see if your favorite site fell victim.

Labels: Coffee, Life

Starbucks closing 600 stores

Fortune: "Starbucks (SBUX) can’t catch a break. The coffee retailer says it will close 600 stores, about 8.5% of its 7,100 total stores, an expansion of the 100-store closing target it had previously announced." - Ouch! I wonder if my daughter's Starbucks is in danger of closing?

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Friday afternoon coffee, on Thursday

Hey, the weekend starts for me today. We're off to Reno this afternoon for a volleyball tournament. See you all on Monday. So, in honor of the weekend here's a Quad-Grande-Vanilla-Mocha, featuring Monorail Espresso from the fine folks at Mukilteo Coffee Company, with whip of course. Enjoy!

Oh, and Movie Line of the Week still has zero takers, now is your opportunity!

Labels: Coffee, Life