{"id":80380,"date":"2026-09-26T02:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/80380"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:36:26","slug":"is-your-local-coffee-store-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/80380","title":{"rendered":"Is your local coffee store shutting down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Starbucks has announced it will close 250 of its coffee stores in North America, around 1 per cent of its 18,000-strong region store estate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company said the closures would begin immediately, with most of the impacted outlets to close \u201cin the weeks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a note to the company\u2019s employees, Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams wrote that the stores that were selected had not met the standard of financial performance that was expected of them and were not able to maintain the level of operating standards of the rest of the company.<\/p>\n<p>This follows other changes under CEO Brian Niccol that are aimed at reducing wait time, streamlining work flows and updating existing properties.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no master list of closing addresses from Starbucks, the status update of store closures in the company\u2019s official mobile app lists certain closures in a number of major metropolitan markets in the U.S. and Canada. The store closures are expected to incur over $300 million in net charges.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the smaller footprint, the company says that general network growth will carry on with new corporate and licensed stores, as well as existing stores being renovated.<\/p>\n<p>When appropriate, impacted retail partners will be offered transfers to other active locations or severance packages if no feasible move is available. Customers can see active hours of operation on the Starbucks mobile app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/starbucks-closure-is-your-local-coffee-store-shutting-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has announced it will close 250 of its coffee stores in North America, around 1 per cent of its 18,000-strong region store estate. The company said the closures would begin immediately, with most of the impacted outlets to close \u201cin the weeks ahead.\u201d In a note to the company\u2019s employees, Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams wrote that the stores&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-Bux-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":6319,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":6319,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80382,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380\/revisions\/80382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}