SFist: Your Bay Area Starbucks Shutdowns

IMonster

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:34:42 -0800

Dammit! I loved that new starbucks in Emeryville! Can we replace it with a Peet's coffee please? I'm tired of having to cross the tracks to get my fix.

Ride Fast

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:14:18 -0800

[...] Starbucks closing protests [...] Ha. I linked to this post, thanks.

xyz123

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:09:59 -0800

BadlyDrawnBear, I agree that as far as large corporations go Starbuck's is one of the better as far as the way they treat their employees. My disdain for Starbucks comes from their nasty directive years ago to open next to local coffee shops and do whatever possible to drive them out of business. I don't mind buying coffee at Starbucks when I'm at the airport, but if I'm in a SF neighborhood, I would like the option of a local coffee house.

badlydrawnbear

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:19:32 -0800

I love listening to "progressives" slam Starbucks as some evil corporate entity. Starbucks employment policies and trading practices are a progressives wet dream and yet they are held up as some evil empire despite them providing full benefits packages to any employee working more then 20hrs a week, their fair trade policies, and the massive expansion of the over all coffee market that has actually helped all those mom and pop coffee shops that they supposedly crushed. The biggest laugh I get is when the Starbucks haters talk about their love of Pete's Coffee. Guess who owns Pete's, the same two guys who started Starbucks, hysterical! Wake up people, Starbucks is everything SF progressives ever wanted in a corporation and yet they still cheer it's demise. It's amazing Starbucks even bothers to continue it's policies when they don't seem to get any credit for them. Maybe, just maybe, they actually do have ethics and a commitment to making the world a little bit better for it's employees and trading partners and maybe we should all be thankful that there is a hugely success corporation out there that is trying to do the right thing.

hubcap

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:46:27 -0800

If the lincoln Ave in SJ is the one in willow glen, i cant imagine that one going away.. not that i go there but there's a big middle class neighborhood all around there.. gimme a post about mcdonald's shutdowns and i'll be more excited :D

overshare

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:29:20 -0800

The Metreon (ish) is already down one SBUX from the one that formerly inhabited the upper level of Yerba Buena Gardens in the .com days...

BillyShears

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:51:18 -0800

Man, the one in the Metreon was one of the few *intelligently* placed Starbucks in the city. I usually kill time over a cup of black coffee before a movie.

DJTennessee

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:25:42 -0800

They have so many stores close to one another thay they become uselessly redundant. Sort of like having two Starbucks posts on your front page! /shows self onto Brock's shit list

TheCharlie

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:52:41 -0800

Yelp search for Starbucks within 1 mile of 4th and Mission reveals the first 53 entries out of 153 total to be actual Starbucks locations. Yes, that's 53 other locations within 1 mile of the closed locations. I think it'll be OK.

mdnelson

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:32:16 -0800

Well God knows that they could probably close a few more in SF and there would still be plenty! I often wonder if SF has the most Starbucks per square mile. ;-)

aj

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:30:05 -0800

Right. It's a good excuse to forget about Metreon anyway. Plus there's still a starbucks a block away at 3rd and Howard.

mpantone

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:20:16 -0800

Starbucks has already publicly commented on that. They are going to try to move people to another store. Most employees are already commuting a good distance anyhow so it probably doesn't matter if it's the nearest shop to the one that's closing.

periqueblend

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:18:38 -0800

hopefully the people don't just get fired. for all its issues, thebux does offer full benefits for people who 20hours or more... so there's that. (I don't go there of course.)

thelivingsunset

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:04:32 -0800

I wonder if they are going to fire the people or move them to another location.

Ginger

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:17:31 -0800

makfan, you're correct. One of the most ridiculous Starbucks placements I've ever seen has been the 901 Market/Powell Station locations. Glad to see it is finally being closed.

makfan

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:11:40 -0800

101 4th must be the small one in the Metreon. The one between Mission & Howard is always packed. I can't see that one closing.