{"id":104389,"date":"2025-12-30T01:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:34:17","slug":"starbucks-plans-to-close-about-400-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104389\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks plans to close about 400 locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN\/Gray News) &#8211; You might start seeing fewer Starbucks shops around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After decades of constant growth, the chain is now shrinking its presence in major U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Starbucks plans to close about 400 locations, mostly in large metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It has already closed dozens of storefronts, including 42 shops in New York City alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That\u2019s due to rising competition in saturated areas, remote work and higher costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The company says it will now focus on fewer, stronger locations and new designs starting in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement via email, a company spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cStarbucks regularly evaluates our portfolio of coffeehouses to make sure that we are meeting the needs of our customers. Opening and closing stores is a standard part of our business, and we don\u2019t have additional news in the US or elsewhere to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A list of the stores set to close was not provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN\/Gray News) &#8211; You might start seeing fewer Starbucks shops around. After decades of constant growth, the chain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[47234,47233,751,47232,47231,3330,47235,168,170,169,10945],"class_list":["post-104389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-400-locations","tag-400-stores","tag-closing","tag-closing-locations","tag-closing-stores","tag-coffee","tag-coffee-chain","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-starbucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}