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Is Your Starbucks Closing?

POSTED: 4:01 pm PDT July 17, 2008
UPDATED: 12:50 pm PDT July 18, 2008

Starbucks has announced the locations of the 600 stores it will close beginning this year, including 19 in Washington and seven in Seattle.

The company, in a news release issued Thursday, provided a list of all of the stores scheduled to be closed. The company said the list will be updated as more details and specific closure dates are confirmed.

See the full list of stores at Starbucks.com.

The company said about 12,000 workers, or 7 percent of Starbucks' global work force, will be affected by the closings.

The company announced 50 stores late last week, saying those stores would be closed by the end of July. Those include four stores in Alabama, seven in Minnesota and eight in California.

Including the eight other stores, California will now lose 88 stores with two each in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and 10 in San Diego.

Florida will lose 59 stores, including three each in Tampa and Palm Beach Gardens. Louisiana will lose 13 stores, nine of them in Baton Rouge.

The move to close the stores is a turnabout from Starbucks' aggressive expansion plans. But the company curtailed those plans as it saw traffic and its profits decline recently as the faltering economy has led some consumers to question their spending on pricey coffee.

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