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Starbucks Pulling Back on Canadian Presence

Poznan, Poland - January 29, 2016: Starbucks, coffee company and coffeehouse chain, founded in Seattle, Wa. USA, in 1971; now the largest business of this kind in the world operates 23,450 locations
Poznan, Poland - January 29, 2016: Starbucks, coffee company and coffeehouse chain, founded in Seattle, Wa. USA, in 1971; now the largest business of this kind in the world operates 23,450 locations
There are nine Starbucks locations in WindsorEssex

Starbucks is set to close up to 200 of its coffee shops in Canada.

Details of a restructuring were included in a letter to the Seattle-based company’s shareholders filed on Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company outlined a number of broad changes it was introducing as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and evolving consumer habits.

Starbucks says some of the Canadian stores up for closure will be “repositioned,” which suggests they could either move to a new area or change format.

The company has been experimenting with locations that are pick-up only coffee shops.  The first Canadian location using the new format launched in January in Toronto.

There are nine Starbucks locations in Windsor-Essex

 

— With files from The Canadian Press

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