Starbucks closes when it realises its coffee is shite

Coffee chain Starbucks says it will close 61 of its 84 stores across Australia by Sunday, shedding 685 jobs in an effort to shore up its international business.

The company says the stores will close because they have been under-performing.

Twenty-three stores will remain open in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, where Starbucks says it wants to refocus on its core operations.

The multi-national last month announced 600 stores in the United States would close as sales plummeted against a background of a weakening US economy.

About 12,000 jobs were lost.

In a statement, the company's chief executive Howard Schultz says the company is well into the implementation phase of transforming Starbucks.

The statement says today's difficult yet necessary decision will help support the ongoing growth of Starbucks' international business.

In a prerecorded interview released by Starbucks, the company's Asia Pacific president John Kulver says the company will help staff who lose their jobs.

"We want to make sure that we're doing everything we can as a company to support them with this restructuring," he said.

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A customer at Starbucks' Albert St store, Nicola Rae, of Margate, said the global chain would probably not be missed.

"I don't think so, I think there are a lot of good coffee shops, especially privately owned ones and small businesses," she said.

Rod Wakefield, of Brisbane-based rival chain the Coffee Club, said Starbucks might have had issues with site selection and a limited food menu in "a very competitive industry".

"It is difficult to come into Australia, which has a mature coffee drinking population, and where there is a preference to sitting down and relaxing with a full cup of coffee instead of a paper takeaway cup," Mr Wakefield said.
Others in the industry suggested Starbucks was struggling with overpriced coffees that failed to meet the standard in Australia's $3 billion coffee market.

Jordan Stamos, co-owner of the Three Monkeys coffee shop in Brisbane's West End, said Australia boasted the last two World Barista champions and was increasingly well-educated about espresso.

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Cannot Remember if I have posted this before
The Truth About Starbucks:

Ever taken a good look at the Starbucks logo?
If you look well, you will notice that the image is that of a mermaid-woman spreading her legs!
Most of the people I tell about this say that they thought it was just her hair.
WRONG. The image is actually that of an ancient demoness called Derketo, who is none other than
the Whore of Babylon in revelations!
“the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” (Rev. 17:1-2 KJV)
In this case, the wine of her fornication is Starbucks’ day-to-day business.
Millions of people around the world are being fooled by this scheme. Don’t be one of them!
No wonder their motto is “Now being served!”
Last year alone, Starbucks opened 2,199 stores globally. That’s an average of 6 stores per day!
In total, Starbucks had 12,440 stores in 37 countries at the end of 2006.