For those of you who like to chill in Starbucks, catching up on email, working on those deadlines or just enjoying a cup of joe with your Treo then you may be interested to know that Starbucks is set to close 500 stores. "The coffee chain Starbucks plans to close 500 stores in the US on top of the 100 it had already announced.
Up to 12,000 full and part-time jobs will go, although Starbucks will try to move staff into other stores. "
The BBC News website has the deets on this but needless to say, shares in the company have risen on the back of the news.
