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Cape Girardeau's new Starbucks not among stores slated to closeSaturday, July 19, 2008Starbucks lovers in Cape Girardeau can breathe a sigh of relief. The location at 188 Vantage Drive is not among the 616 coffee shops that the chain has announced it will close by March. The company on Thursday released a full list of stores it plans to close. That list includes 17 Missouri locations, most of which are in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Only the Jennings, Mo., store has a firm closing date. That location will shut its doors by the end of July. The three hardest-hit states are California, Florida and Texas, which will lose 88, 59 and 57 stores respectively. Store management in Cape Girardeau would not comment, referring questions to the company's corporate headquarters in Seattle. "In the spirit of transparency with our partners, customers and communities, we have provided the full list of stores below for general information purposes," company officials said in a news release. "Store partners will receive advance notice and more details from their leadership team once a specific closure date has been confirmed. After specific closure dates have been communicated to all affected partners, we will continue to update the confirmed store list." The Cape Girardeau location opened in October. During the 1990s and early 2000s, stores like the one in Cape Girardeau were opened at a pace of one location per day. However, some stores proved unprofitable, forcing the July 1 announcement that the company was closing about 8 percent of its stores in the United States. Most of the stores scheduled for closure were opened since 2006. As part of its cost-cutting efforts, the company expects to open fewer than 200 new stores in its 2009 fiscal year. While about 12,000 employees nationwide will be affected by the move, Starbucks officials said some of them will be offered positions at stores that remain open. Employees who are not placed at a nearby store will receive a severance package based on pay and position. 335-6611, extension 137 Have a comment? Log on to semissourian.com/today Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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that's a shame. the "baristas" that work at the cape location are snotty and everything wrong with Starbucks.
Try Panera or Grace Cafe instead. It's a much friendlier environment.