Similar flyers have been posted at other Starbucks locations.
Starbucks announced Thursday it was closing hundreds of stores in the US, Canada, and Europe and laying off 900 non-retail employees as part of a $1 billion restructuring plan.
The Seattle coffee giant said the closures would start immediately. Affected baristas will be offered severance packages and transfers to other locations where possible, the company said.
Starbucks hasn’t provided an exact number of stores that are closing, or a list of locations. But the company said it’s aiming to have 18,300 North American locations when the fiscal year ends Sunday. As of June 29, the company had 18,734 locations.
All of the following stores are listed as “closed” on the Starbucks website beginning this Sunday, Sept. 28, and lasting through next week.
63-65 Court St., Boston
540 Commonwealth Ave. (Kenmore Square), Boston
1660-1670 Soldiers Field Road, Boston
192 Tremont St., Boston
30 Rowes Wharf, Boston
11 West Broadway St., South Boston
1948 Beacon St. (Cleveland Circle), Brighton
850 River St., Hyde Park
277 Harvard St., Brookline
874 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline
1 JFK St. (Harvard Square), Cambridge
1662 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
11 First St., Cambridge
177 College Ave., Medford
333 Worcester St., Natick
474 Woodward St., (Waban) Newton
260 Elm St. (Davis Square), Somerville
68 Central St., Wellesley
661 Boston Post Road East, Marlborough
Some employees at Boston-area stores confirmed the closures when a Globe reporter reached them by phone Friday, but others said they could not comment.
One store manager said he was unwilling to comment on the closures for fear of “jeopardizing” his severance package.
Starbucks said it expects to spend $1 billion on the restructuring, including $150 million on employee separation benefits and $850 million related to the physical store closing and the cost of exiting leases.
It was not immediately clear how many of the stores that are closing are unionized. Workers at 650 company-owned US Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since 2021, but they have yet to reach a contract agreement with the company.
Starbucks Workers United, the labor group organizing workers, said Thursday that the closures were made without input from Starbucks’ baristas. The union said it intends to engage in bargaining at every union-represented store that is closing to ensure workers can be placed at another store they prefer.
“Fixing what’s broken at Starbucks isn’t possible without centering the people who engage with the company’s customers day in and day out,” the union said.
Truman Dickerson can be reached at truman.dickerson@globe.com.
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