TV Schedule

Cities, customers launch 'save our Starbucks' efforts

  2. Hawkmang
  3. related topics
"Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large as New York, customers and city officials are starting to write letters, place phone calls, circulate petitions and otherwise plead with the coffee giant to change its mind.

'Now that it's going away, we're devastated,' said Kate Walker, a facilities manager for SunGard Financial Systems, a software company, who recently learned of a store closing in New York City.

It's an unusual twist in the saga of Starbucks, one of the fastest growing retailers of the past decade. For years, Starbucks gained attention when a town didn't welcome it. Independent coffee shops complained about the big-muscled competition, and residents bemoaned the erosion of local character.

But ever since Starbucks announced this month that it would close 600 stores by early next year, as its business struggles, the rallying cause has switched to saving these endangered locations."

Full story at link by Janet Adamy and Anna Prior
Hawkmang

12 responses // Cities, customers launch 'save our Starbucks' efforts

  • bye starbucks , hate your overpriced burnt tasting coffee
    jeromecon
  • It's so easy to hate Starbucks, but think of all the teenagers and pseudo-intellectuals who work there.
    handshakeheartbreak
  • Some people have way too much time on their hands.
    marcozarco
  • When you're fighting for coffee there's got to be something wrong...

    Seriously? Go make your own coffee or go to another shop.
    pogschampion
  • It's just plain crazy to close the store by the freeway in Wichta Falls, TX since it just opend and there is none close by. Raise the sign to be seen from the freeway and is the best location within 10 miles. Please help me with this. I do a lot of business in there and I bring customers in.
    starbucks
  • If Starbucks doesn't care about hurting local coffee shops when it opens a new location, they surely aren't going to care who is affected by them closing a location. They only care about their profits. No profits, no more Starbucks. Either way I don't care. I gladly walk several blocks out of my way to get coffee from local shops when there are 2 Starbucks locations right around the corner.
    sapere_aude
  • Hooray for the return of the small town coffee shops!
    Stradius
  • Here's a link to the list of stores closing
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/18/starbucks-clos...
    pattik
  • http://www.bizcovering.com/Major-Companies/Starbucks-Mocha-Latte-Grande-Overkill.174627
    julsie6789
  • mcd's is trying to break into the market . when there are freestanding mcd's "cafes" i will pray for starbucks to return .
    malathion
  • I'll be honest i loved starbucks coffee and anything they served, but.... that all changed when there agenda went from give the best to a stubborn corporate take over of all mom and pop shops. I had three Indy coffee shops close since starbucks came to my town. And now they've won and are leaving? and what really grinds my gears is people want those rip off artist corporations to stay?!?! Protests?!?! Banners?!?! There is something wrong here when people fight for coffee but take 4-5 dollars a gallon of.....milk or gas which ever and don't question anything. Help read free uncorrupted press and fight for the cause at

    http://www.adbusters.org/

    Take care fellow Americans
    Indysiouxsoldier
  • I think, if you are that upset about a store closing you may need to start like coffee drinkers anonymous or something. Damn addicts.
    SilenceNoMore

Add your response

Login/Registration is required to add a response.