Starbucks in Ridgeland East closing..

[dawgstudent]

it opened just a few years ago. Built it from the ground up.

Starbucks in Ridgeland included in coffee giant's store closures - SuperTalk Mississippi

Following the decision by Starbucks to close hundreds of locations worldwide ahead of Monday's start of its new fiscal year, some in Mississippi have been

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[skip dog]

Countyl line rd has predominately become a cesspool, and until the city of Jackson gets its act together, retail storefronts will suffer. Same goes for Ridgeland, as they have not necessarily required retail to meet its development standards and their side of county line is not much better. That said, strip mall development has a 17 year shelf life, and then it goes to the gutter. So this was to be expected.

 

[The Peeper]

Are their whiny little baristas still striking over what color shirts they have to wear?

This has ZERO impact on my life, I have never walked inside one of their stores anywhere.

 

[Irondawg]

I was curious what they were thinking when they started building that one.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

This looks like it was a corporate owned one. They probably did a numbers analysis from a distance and thought it was good spot to open one.

We have a corporate one out front of us that went on the .market 3 months ago, for a hefty chunk of change (real estate included).

 

[anon1768925248]

The one in Renaissance is always busy but awful customer service and very slow. The new one in Madison is very good. Not surprised anything on county line shut down.

 

[John Deaux VII]

You gotta sell alot of damn coffee, frufru drinks, and croissants to cover the occupancy cost on a freestanding building with that type of square footage. Some of those are as big as a McDonalds or Wendy's.

 

[HotMop]

I see an opportunity for a new Vape Shop!

 

[DT4248]

Are their whiny little baristas still striking over what color shirts they have to wear?

This has ZERO impact on my life, I have never walked inside one of their stores anywhere.

How did you swing and miss this badly?

This is literally a major corporation shuttering a ton of stores - some c-suite billionaire types looking to increase their bottom line. You then attack unprovoked the people paid near minimum wage as the cause. They aren't.

And this doesn't affect you? Buddy - that's tons of jobs lost to increase someone's bottom line. That's never a good thing for a society. More homeless, more crime, shittier living conditions. That's what job loss and recession / depression means. How the **** would that not affect you? You should be concerned if you see this become more and more common.

 

[SteelCurtain74]

I see an opportunity for a new Vape Shop!

Or a new payday loan business

 

[T-TownDawgg]

I see an opportunity for a new Vape Shop!

Wards.

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

I see an opportunity for a new Vape Shop!

Title loan

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Starbucks is sugar laxative

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Are their whiny little baristas still striking over what color shirts they have to wear?

This has ZERO impact on my life, I have never walked inside one of their stores anywhere.

 

[patdog]

I see an opportunity for a new Vape Shop!

What NE Jackson really needs is another medical marijuana shop. **

 

[onewoof]

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol was the highest-paid CEO of the S&P 500 companies in 2024, earning a total compensation package worth approximately $96 million for the year.

Niccol earns 6,666 times more than Starbucks' median employee.

 

[HotMop]

Title loan

Pay day loan from Germany.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

How did you swing and miss this badly?

This is literally a major corporation shuttering a ton of stores - some c-suite billionaire types looking to increase their bottom line. You then attack unprovoked the people paid near minimum wage as the cause. They aren't.

And this doesn't affect you? Buddy - that's tons of jobs lost to increase someone's bottom line. That's never a good thing for a society. More homeless, more crime, shittier living conditions. That's what job loss and recession / depression means. How the **** would that not affect you? You should be concerned if you see this become more and more common.

Hardcore right wingers love to see people suffer. They don’t care who gets fired because the only jobs that matter are theirs. They’ve made that abundantly clear.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol was the highest-paid CEO of the S&P 500 companies in 2024, earning a total compensation package worth approximately $96 million for the year.

Niccol earns 6,666 times more than Starbucks' median employee.

Dude lives in the OC and takes a Starbucks jet to Seattle the 1-2 times a week he goes in the office. And that’s facts.

I ain’t saying that he’s not making the right move, because he was hired to do this.

But it’s all ironic. These CEOs have ZERO awareness.

 

[Dawgzilla2]

This looks like it was a corporate owned one. They probably did a numbers analysis from a distance and thought it was good spot to open one.

We have a corporate one out front of us that went on the .market 3 months ago, for a hefty chunk of change (real estate included).

All of the stand alone Starbucks stores are corporate owned. The ones connected to hotels, or inside other stores like Barnes & Noble and Target are licensed to those businesses. Starbucks accounting is fascinating to me.

The Baristas are low wage employees, but their starting pay is $15/hr, which isn't bad for a part time job. Plus they get vacation time, sick leave, profit sharing, annual raises, and a health plan.

The Baristas are technically not losing their jobs, either...they can go work at another corporate owned store, although hours might be a little tight if the staff is too big. Of course, the stores close to the one closing will need extra staff because they're about to get an increase in customers.

Even the store manager and assistant manager can continue to work and become managers at a new store when a spot opens up.

 

[Dawgzilla2]

You gotta sell alot of damn coffee, frufru drinks, and croissants to cover the occupancy cost on a freestanding building with that type of square footage. Some of those are as big as a McDonalds or Wendy's.

And they do. Even a slow Starbucks store can have sales over $25,000 per week. And their profit margin is unbelievably high. The cost of the ingredients for a single drink is a fraction of a cent, and that includes shipping. Milk is probably their most expensive ingredient.

But, where Starbucks really makes their money is their app. You put money in you account, and that money goes straight to Starbucks and will never be returned to you. In exchange, you get to drop in and order a drink, which, as I just explained, is practically free for Starbucks to give you. After giving you a certain number of these free drinks, you earn another free drink, which you consider "free" because they don't reduce the credit you have in your account for that one.

Starbucks has more money than most international banks. But the quarterly profits are down, so they will close a few stores

 

[DT4248]

Hardcore right wingers love to see people suffer. They don’t care who gets fired because the only jobs that matter are theirs. They’ve made that abundantly clear.

This ain't a right/left thing. This is just someone being an uneducated idiot and just hating the group he doesn't understand because that's easier than putting a rational thought together and critically thinking through cause, effect, and downstream consequence.

 

[The Peeper]

I've been behaving a lot lately, first list I've been on in quite some time

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

Are their whiny little baristas still striking over what color shirts they have to wear?

This has ZERO impact on my life, I have never walked inside one of their stores anywhere.

They’re also still trying to unionize, demand higher wages (even though they already have better wages and benefits than all other fast food employees), and refusing to serve law enforcement, military, and other first responders.

 

[RocketDawg]

I get a vente white mocha with an extra shot on occasion. That's really good living - only about $8.50, $10 with a tip, and about 1000 calories. Dutch Brothers has something similar made with chocolate milk, but I've not tried it. Typically, in my opinion, Dutch Brothers coffee without all the additives is better than Starbuck's since it doesn't taste burnt.

I've always found the baristas at both Starbucks and Dutch Brothers to be very friendly and they work hard. Dealing with the public all the time is never easy.

 

[RocketDawg]

Hardcore right wingers love to see people suffer. They don’t care who gets fired because the only jobs that matter are theirs. They’ve made that abundantly clear.

I'm afraid you're correct.

 

[Klovis]

So wait... let me get this straight.... if a business is losing you money.... you should keep it open BeCaUsE oF JoBs ????

 

[Chesusdog]

Maybe they should finally address the issue of their coffee tasting like burnt ***. Give me Dunkin any day.

 

[GloryDawg]

The only thing I have ever bought there was a slice of pound cake in a resort at Universal Studios Orland. I have to say it was a pretty damn good tasting slice of cake.

 

[DT4248]

So wait... let me get this straight.... if a business is losing you money.... you should keep it open BeCaUsE oF JoBs ????

Close. It's not that it's "losing money", it's that its quarterly net profit was lower. So less people will buy your stock if your returns are 10% instead of 12%. So how you move net? You eliminate cost or you raise prices. Prices already have been moved to the max because of "pandemic", "supply chain issues", "inflation", and "tariffs".

Again, it's all just to move up a bottom line because of greed. A CEO wants to get a fifth private jet for his niece to fly around and will shut down 100 stores and threaten folks livelihood to get it. That's what this is.

What happened to being satisfied making what you need? Wanting a little extra has become this monstrous system chasing the most extra and bleeding folks dry with subscriptions and service fees and eliminating jobs / shifting responsibilities onto fewer workers. At some point we'll hit peak greed that will make society snap. I greatly fear the consequences of that day.

 

[Wesson Bulldog]

This one in Brookhaven has been here 3 years or so. They don't appear to be doing much business even being located on the boulevard. PJs and a couple of local independent are knocking it out of the park.
Ive never been impressed with Starbucks. I only drink regular coffee, and theirs is not great. Folgers is better.

 

[DT4248]

They’re also still trying to unionize, demand higher wages (even though they already have better wages and benefits than all other fast food employees), and refusing to serve law enforcement, military, and other first responders.

Hmm... sounds like they're smart business folks for unionizing and the other stores should follow in their lead? Or is it not ok when the poors try capitalism/greeed?

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol was the highest-paid CEO of the S&P 500 companies in 2024, earning a total compensation package worth approximately $96 million for the year.

Niccol earns 6,666 times more than Starbucks' median employee.

...

Why do you hate America?

This is the way.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

Dude lives in the OC and takes a Starbucks jet to Seattle the 1-2 times a week he goes in the office. And that’s facts.

I ain’t saying that he’s not making the right move, because he was hired to do this.

But it’s all ironic. These CEOs have ZERO awareness.

It's all about making the "right move." Awareness is for the "woke."

This is why they get paid 6666% more than their front line workers.

It's how business works!

 

[Bulldog45]

Hmm... sounds like they're smart business folks for unionizing and the other stores should follow in their lead? Or is it not ok when the poors try capitalism/greeed?

They could be pricing themselves out of a job too. Anybody have a map of all the closures. Would be interested to see if there is a correlation between the highest paid/most troublesome groups of employees as well as locations in higher crime areas.

Also not being mentioned, is the recent lawsuit being brought against Starbucks by employees over the revised dress code. Like somebody wanting a $10 reimbursement to have a nose ring removed, complainants about no longer being able to wear crocs and having to purchase non-slip shoes etc.

So a bunch of employees didn’t like being told it was time to move into the adult business world so they decided to fight back. Well, Starbucks is apparently up to the challenge.
Starbucks workers sue over company’s new dress code By Associated Press Published Sep. 18, 2025

Starbucks’ new dress code went into effect on May 12.


Brooke Allen, a full-time student who also works at a Starbucks in Davis, California, said she was told by a manager in July that the Crocs she was wearing didn’t meet the new standards and she would have to wear different shoes if she wanted to work the following day. Allen had to go to three stores to find a compliant pair that cost her $60.09.

Allen has spent an additional $86.95 on clothes for work, including black shirts and jeans.

“I think it’s extremely tone deaf on the company’s part to expect their employees to completely redesign their wardrobe without any compensation,” Allen said. “A lot of us are already living paycheck to paycheck.”

Allen said she misses the old dress code, which allowed her to express herself with colorful shirts and three facial piercings.

“It looks sad now that everyone is wearing black,” she said.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

I don't buy overpriced coffee. I never understood the appeal of paying $10 one cup of coffee when I buy freshly roasted Costa Rican beans from a local roaster and get the coffee I like at home for a fraction of that cost. It's not my thing.

 

[The Peeper]

They’re also still trying to unionize, demand higher wages (even though they already have better wages and benefits than all other fast food employees), and refusing to serve law enforcement, military, and other first responders.

All the more reason for me to not ever go

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

I don't buy overpriced coffee. I never understood the appeal of paying $10 one cup of coffee when I buy freshly roasted Costa Rican beans from a local roaster and get the coffee I like at home for a fraction of that cost. It's not my thing.

Thank the white lord Jesus Christ, you are not the typical American consumer.

It's people like you who put our economy in the tank.

BUY MORE OVERPRICEDSHIT! And let the good times roll!

Costa Rican beans.... indeed.

 

[paindonthurt]

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol was the highest-paid CEO of the S&P 500 companies in 2024, earning a total compensation package worth approximately $96 million for the year.

Niccol earns 6,666 times more than Starbucks' median employee.

The mean CEOs taking advantage of their workers!!!

 

[paindonthurt]

Dude lives in the OC and takes a Starbucks jet to Seattle the 1-2 times a week he goes in the office. And that’s facts.

I ain’t saying that he’s not making the right move, because he was hired to do this.

But it’s all ironic. These CEOs have ZERO awareness.

You really do have a double digit IQ don’t you?