Want to know if your favorite Starbucks is closing?

I think that location location locatio is what put Starbucks on the map or should I say "in the grind"! Every where accessable and everywhere people wait! Good manuever on their part! I buy a $50 gift card for my daughter as a christmas gift and she loves it! I did it one year as a little funny gift thing - a $10 GC and when I bought it, I asked for a cup and lid - THey looked at me like a calf looking at a new fence, but I said - "its gift wrap for the gift card". They still didn't get it. But when I had my grand daughter "serve coffee" and she opened the lid, she was thrilled!! So the next year I was stumped for something to get her anyway, so I did the $50 one - and she (for all practical purposes...) did cartwheels when she opened it! I've ginven her lots of gifts in the years, but this was the first flip I've gotten! Haven't heard squeals out of her since the day she was born!!! So it was a great gift and one that she dearly loved! ANd she tought of me every day she got her "Fix". She has since cut back, and likes a place called The Coffee Bean.

That is so cool. I've heard someone say something about the coffe bean. But i'v'e never seen it around where I go to school. If I did then I'll probably try it because i'm all for trying new things. So I guess your daughter doesn't have to worry too much about Starbucks closing. I would have donen a back flips and some cartwheels if I had gotten that gift card.

That's funny what you said. And yeah gift cards are a good gift because people can choose what they want to buy themselves.

I go the same store every day so I just ask for a refill. I got one even better. I get a free refill every month because the starbucks is in the kroger store and I swipe my kroger card for points. The mug was expensive to buy but it was well worth it!!!

Good work if you can get it! Maybe everyone should check their local grocery and see if theirs has a Starbucks in it and what special offers they have! You got a good deal there!

Mostly they are closing because people can't afford the very high price for a cup of flavored coffee...I would say anymore, but at their high prices, $3.75 for a regular cup with no extras - person could drop $5-$6 a cup! Now with the economy crunch people are not wasting their money that way any more. The slower shops are closing or the ones so close to gether. Seems mostly in the larger cities.

They are probably a good crowd pleaser come winter time! Warm cup of coffee and all! There are more closing in larger cities because they opened so many.. every other corner almost - Starbucks took the "one on every corner" logo saying from Kinko's I think!

I didn't bother to look as I don't drink coffee, but there are several here that are in rather "hard to get to" locations and recently opened, and I wouldn't be surprised if they close. The ones next to Barnes and Noble book stores, you know will stay open! Add a drive thru window and those will probably stay open too!

I just found this out about Starbucks in a new discussion Save our Starbucks! http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1611969.aspx Apparently causing a huge ruckus! But seems to me they might just be playing the field to see if that location really is a money grabber or not! I wonder if htey are not trying to re-focus their locations from "on every corner" to "in every store". They are in grocery stores, Targets, etc. Maybe they are sliming down in their own expenses to make more money - just pay a little bit of rent to the store and clamp onto the stores customers instead of getting their own!!!! Hum....would seem to save them some money while still making that same high priced revenues!

I don't drink either. My daughter did try me on their ice teas and she loves them but I think they are just, first - FAR to expensive and second just to thick and rich tasting that it almost isn't even like ice tea. The cost is stopping her addiction tho!

That store looks pretty good Danish. I wonder if they will open any in the US? Tim Horton's did. I might visit it if they did. I also like Caribou coffee, another Starbucks competitior.

At least the price is reasonable. I don't drink coffee so I don't know! But I can think of alot more to do with nearly $5 than drink it in about 5 minutes! I prefer a large ice tea for $1.39 and super size it for 39 cents more!

Probably those within another store will stay open - they have a captive audience. Rent is probably lower to! Great that you can get it at home!

Good for you for getting the gift cards to cover you "habit"!!! but $5.25 a cup without - my point driven...that is more than a gallon of gas here in California and some pay that every day!!!! $40 a week for a drink a day!!! $200 a month of a drink a day!!! I can sure think of a TON more things to do with $200 a month!!!

Well, they say they have cars that run on water or a way to make your car run on water or somethig like that...if water can make them go...guess caffine and sugar could be the next step!

Yes, I know that. Maybe some day I'll be able to use a star bucks card for gas too. That'll be nice.

Business owners seldom care about employess loosing their jobs, just their own bottom line. Starbucks is such a huge offering out there, you'd think that now that competition has hit them hard, followed by the bad economy, that they'd lower their prices instead of closing stores - at least give it a try. Closing your offering is a sure fire way to loose income...but at least if you just lower your prices, you have a chance of keeping your clients and income. Kind of like sell it for $20 to 10 people or $10 to 20 people. In this case the MORE people there, the higher the income - instead of paying $4.75 for a cup of coffee 2 times a week, they would pay $2.75 a cup 4 times a week - the same basics are there, but what they have working for them that they apparently don't realize is that once the customer is in there - there is a good chance that they will add a little something to their order. The more times the customer is "in there" the more chances the store has of them adding something to their order or even comeing back more often - ergo they will make at leas the same and probably more money. People will see $4.57 for one time, but not hardly blink at $2.75 for one time and think that they will be able to go more often - it is now half price! Mind games in over drive!

Same here - I don't drink coffee so what the heck do I care if they close! But to be nice to those that do have the love of coffee - guess they'll just have to start making that really hard and emotionally enduring decision...can I afford this today?

Just look at all the money you saved by not haveing one down there!!! Buthey, maybe you could start a coffee business.....

That is odd. Must have got caught in the margins some where!

I don't like coffee, although the aroma in the morning is very nice! But hope you enjoy it when it opens!

I don't drink it either. I'd say more than the flavor of the coffee itself, it is all the additives that they offer for adding to the coffee - the flavors, spices, whipped toppings, hot, cold etc. But still - just to expensive! I buy the General FOods International Coffees (during the colder months) and they have a few nice flavores and I just add some Cool WHip topping and it all lasts me for about 2weeks for $2.84 for the mix and $1.59 for the whip topping with some left over!

I buy them as gifts to. You can do that online tho. I do surveys and things and one of the forms of payment is gift cards and Starbucks is always on there so I buy them that way for gifts and stocking stuffers at christmas time or in a plastic easter egg at easter time!

Well, I thought that slow business was why they were closing and still could be - not enough customers to pay the high prices, but with this discussion I am wondering if they are capitalizing on a new theme of offering - before anyone else gets there and that is to get in place INSIDE other stores. First they are "on every corner" now they want to be "in every store"... Maybe they are setting a new standard for the new millemium! WHy search for their own customers when they can pilpher off the stores customers and let the store pay for attracting the customers!