{"id":294293,"date":"2026-09-26T06:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294293\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:22:13","slug":"starbucks-closing-250-stores-laying-off-employees-what-to-know-in-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294293\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Closing 250 Stores, Laying Off Employees: What To Know In PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This round of closures represent about 1 percent of Starbucks&#8217; more than 18,000 North American coffeehouses. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/starbucks-locations.com\/starbucks-locations-in-pennsylvania.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Starbucks Locations IQ, <\/a> there are about 440 Starbucks locations in Pennsylvania &#8211; the 11th highest number of stores among all states.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to employees this week, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams noted that the company continues to retrofit its North American coffeehouses to make them more inviting. The company expects 1,500 stores will be retrofitted <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This round of closures represent about 1 percent of Starbucks&#8217; more than 18,000 North American coffeehouses. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-294293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}