{"id":476378,"date":"2026-09-26T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:20:14","slug":"local-starbucks-locations-in-fresno-and-merced-are-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476378\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Starbucks locations in Fresno and Merced are closing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starbucks<\/a> is closing 250 of its coffee shops \u2013 and two locations in prominent spots in Fresno are among them.<\/p>\n

The Starbucks in Fig Garden Village will close, along with the one across the street from Fresno State at Shaw and Woodrow avenues.<\/p>\n

A Starbucks at the corner of G and 23rd Street in Merced is also closing. Several locations in Sacramento are also slated to close.<\/p>\n

Each of the locations\u2019 last day will be Saturday. Closing stores will have notices posted this weekend, according to the company.<\/p>\n

In a letter to employees, chief operating officer Mike Grams said: \u201cWe have carefully reviewed our North America coffeehouse portfolio and identified locations where we do not believe we can consistently deliver the experience we want for customers and partners or where we don\u2019t see a path to acceptable financial performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fig Garden location \u2013 in the center since 1997 \u2013 does not have a drive-thru.<\/p>\n

Starbucks is increasingly emphasizing drive-thrus as it builds new locations \u2013 90% of them have them, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

The Starbucks across from Fresno State is in the same shopping center as Redwave Liquor and Pearl Tea House. Its drive-thru line often backs up into the tight parking lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe approximately 1% of coffeehouses affected by today\u2019s announcement reflect locations where we do not see a path to delivering the customer experience or long-term performance Starbucks expects,\u201d a Starbucks representative said in an email to The Bee.<\/p>\n

A sign on the door of the Fig Garden Village location thanked customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know this may be hard to hear \u2013 because this isn\u2019t just any store. It\u2019s your coffeehouse, a place woven into your daily rhythm, where memories were made and meaningful connections with our partners grew. We\u2019re deeply grateful for these moments, and for the community that\u2019s been built here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The closure leaves Fig Garden with several locally owned gathering places to get coffee, including the newly reopened<\/a> Uncle Harry\u2019s NY Bagelry & Coffeehouse<\/a> and La Boulangerie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company has 18,000 locations in North America and has opened 60 locations so far this year.<\/p>\n

One of them was in Fresno, when the first Starbucks in southwest Fresno opened<\/a> earlier this month. It\u2019s at the southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Church Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Stefanie Stefanie Sharp makes a drink while working at Starbucks on Wednesday, June 29, 2023. Rich Janzaruk\/Herald-Times Rich Janzaruk\/Herald-Times \/ USA <\/p>\n

This story was originally published September 25, 2026 at 10:48 AM.<\/p>\n

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Bethany Clough<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Bethany Clough covers restaurants and retail for The Fresno Bee. A reporter for more than 20 years, she now works to answer readers\u2019 questions about business openings, closings and other business news. She has a degree in journalism from Syracuse University and her last name is pronounced Cluff.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starbucks is closing 250 of its coffee shops \u2013 and two locations in prominent spots in Fresno are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-476378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}