WARWICK – Starbucks Corp. has announced that it will close its store at 1759 Post Road in Warwick as it shutters about 300 “underperforming” locations around the world.
The closure of the Post Road store will reduce the number of Starbucks locations in Rhode Island to 25, some of which are managed by other companies, Starbucks said.
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A company representative told Providence Business News today that some of the stores will be closed by the end of this month, with the remainder to be shuttered by the end of September. He did not know when the Starbucks on Post Road would be closed.
An employee at the store said she had not been told when her store would close its doors, either.
The Post Road store is one of six Starbucks locations in Warwick, according to the company’s Web site, which lists two other standalone stores on Airport Road and Pace Boulevard, as well as locations inside T.F. Green Airport and in a Target store.
Two Massachusetts Starbucks stores, in Plymouth and Woburn, also will be closed, as will five Connecticut stores, in Fairfield, Guilford, Mystic, North Windham and Waterford.
The company first announced plans to close the stores in January, but the list of locations on the chopping block was not released until this week. At the time, the company also said it planned to cut 6,700 jobs.
The company published the full list of store closures in a document on starbucks.com.
This is the second round of store closings by Starbucks in less than a year. Last July, the company announced that it would close 600 stores in the U.S., including locations in Dartmouth and North Attleboro, but none in Rhode Island.
After years of strong growth, Starbucks has encountered rough seas recently as consumers cut back their spending and the company faced difficulties in digesting a major expansion of its total number of locations earlier in the decade.
