5 starbucks located in city of seattle to close due to crime (Bellevue: appointed, neighborhoods)

[annonymous0381]

There was an article in the seattle times that starbucks is closing 5 seattle stores due to crime. What do people think of this??

[Ruth4Truth]

I don't understand why people are so stuck on Starbucks. That seems very limiting. I find the ambience there to be too sterile. S'bux is closing some stores, but meanwhile, many locally owned coffee shops in the neighborhoods are doing fine.

[rjshae]

It's not a positive trend, that's for sure. We're probably a few years away from crime levels returning to normal.

[leastprime]

Disappointed that 1st and Pike is closed (remodeling).
YSMV

[annonymous0381]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I don't understand why people are so stuck on Starbucks. That seems very limiting. I find the ambience there to be too sterile. S'bux is closing some stores, but meanwhile, many locally owned coffee shops in the neighborhoods are doing fine.

When I visit my parents in Southern California they have peets coffee and coffee bean. Both peets and coffee bean are better than Starbucks.

Why can't peets and coffee bean thrive in seattle??

[Inkpoe]

Originally Posted by annonymous0381

When I visit my parents in Southern California they have peets coffee and coffee bean. Both peets and coffee bean are better than Starbucks.

Why can't peets and coffee bean thrive in seattle??

While it's been awhile since I've been to Seattle, I do remember there being Peet's in Seattle (Greenlake), Bellevue and Redmond. I really like their drinks as well.

[jabogitlu]

Peet's filed bankrupcty years ago, I'd be surprised if they're still in Southern California unless there was some kind of franchise or something that stayed afloat down there.

Starbucks is doing fine. This is purely union-busting antics. The Olive Way Starbucks is one of the most famous (locally) and well-supported stores. And if Starbucks can't hack it along 23rd unlike many other bustling businesses, well, then they deserve to close up shop nationally. This is 100% about unions vs. corporate Starbucks. I've been watching them increase the pressure with their anti-union rhetoric over the past several months. Sad to say I am done with Starbucks for the foreseeable future.

[annonymous0381]

Originally Posted by Inkpoe

While it's been awhile since I've been to Seattle, I do remember there being Peet's in Seattle (Greenlake), Bellevue and Redmond. I really like their drinks as well.

Peets in greenlake closed during the pandemic.

[MechAndy]

Peets seems to be doing fine around San Francisco.
I even see their coffee packages in grocery stores.

For some reason I thought they were owned by Starbucks or had some sort of connection to them.
I’m not sure though.

[jdhpa]

Peet's is a profitable, publicly traded company based out of the Netherlands. Jdep.as for anyone interested.

The founders of Peet's also started Starbucks. Schultz was an executive at Starbucks who took it over when the founders wanted to focus on Peet's.