GoKawiilStarbucks to shut roughly 250 North American stores this week
Starbucks Coffee Company announced it will close about 250 stores across North America this week. The company said the closures target locations where financial performance or the in-store customer experience fell short of expectations.
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The move follows a similar closure round about a year ago, suggesting Starbucks is continuing to reassess its physical footprint amid pressure to improve profitability. Repeated culls of underperforming stores could signal broader struggles with sales trends or shifting consumer habits that the company is trying to address through consolidation rather than expansion.
- About 250 North American Starbucks locations will close this week.
- Closures target stores with weak financial performance or poor in-store experience.
- This follows a comparable round of store closures roughly a year earlier.
Source: fastcompany.com, 2026-09-24
Published there as: “Starbucks store closures: List of doomed locations includes another 250 coffeehouses, 1 year after earlier cull”
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