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youssef5070

(13 posts) Thu Sep 25, 2025, 08:57 PM Thursday

Starbucks Announces Major Store Closures and Layoffs: What's Going On?

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Starbucks Announces Major Store Closures and Layoffs: What's Going On? (Original Post) youssef5070 Thursday OP

I'll take Coffee tariffs malaise Thursday #1

Price of coffee has at least doubled. no_hypocrisy Thursday #2

Locally It's competition from 7Brew. Chipper Chat Thursday #3

We had one open up a few months ago, it's always packed. Haven't tried it because lines are long. Silent Type Thursday #7

A few hundred stores closing out of tens of thousands is nothing durablend Thursday #4

Coffee costs too much, so many are making it at home or from other stores sakabatou Thursday #5

The cost of the coffee is irrelevant somsai Thursday #6

Like drug stores, they are overbuilt and expensive coffee is one of first things people cut back. Silent Type Thursday #8

They overbuilt, for sure. Conjuay Friday #11

Starbucks pretty much defines "discretionary" . . . hatrack Thursday #9

Exactly. I'm using k-cups now. It's just as good and more convenient, at only 50 cents a k-cup. nt SunSeeker Friday #10

People are realizing Starbucks coffee is not good Buckeyeblue Friday #12

malaise

(289,501 posts)

1. I'll take Coffee tariffs

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:02 PM

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for a true Daily Double Ken

no_hypocrisy

(53,189 posts)

2. Price of coffee has at least doubled.

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:03 PM

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That might be a variable.

Chipper Chat

(10,603 posts)

3. Locally It's competition from 7Brew.

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:15 PM

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Silent Type

(11,260 posts)

7. We had one open up a few months ago, it's always packed. Haven't tried it because lines are long.

Reply to Chipper Chat (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:16 PM

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durablend

(8,525 posts)

4. A few hundred stores closing out of tens of thousands is nothing

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:25 PM

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sakabatou

(45,340 posts)

5. Coffee costs too much, so many are making it at home or from other stores

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:26 PM

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somsai

(169 posts)

6. The cost of the coffee is irrelevant

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:43 PM

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A double espresso might cost 10 cents more in materials.

People are earning and spending less. All restaurants have seen a drop off in customers.

Silent Type

(11,260 posts)

8. Like drug stores, they are overbuilt and expensive coffee is one of first things people cut back.

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:17 PM

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Conjuay

(2,701 posts)

11. They overbuilt, for sure.

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #8)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:07 AM

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Visiting the Kids in Seattle, we took a boat cruise. At one point the captain stops the boat and announces, "From this spot, you are within one half mile of 350 Starbucks locations."
So yeah, overbuilt, and not an especially good product.

hatrack

(63,627 posts)

9. Starbucks pretty much defines "discretionary" . . .

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:19 PM

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See also: Las Vegas, Disney World, replacing a 3-year-old car with a new one, weekly trips to Applebee's, bouncy castles for your 1st-grader's birthday.

Jobs are drying up, inflation's roaring, and any number of things have got to go.

SunSeeker

(56,777 posts)

10. Exactly. I'm using k-cups now. It's just as good and more convenient, at only 50 cents a k-cup. nt

Reply to hatrack (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:38 AM

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Buckeyeblue

(6,033 posts)

12. People are realizing Starbucks coffee is not good

Reply to youssef5070 (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:02 AM

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Caribou, Bigby, even Duncan has better coffee than Starbucks.

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