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Starbucks Corp. has named all 600 company-owned stores it plans to close in a bid to boost its business and weed out unprofitable locations.

Only one will close in Arizona—in Eloy.

The company announced 50 stores late last week, saying those stores would be closed by the end of July. Those include four stores in Alabama, seven in Minnesota and eight in California. :

Now the gourmet coffee retailer is detailing all stores slated for closure. Including the eight other stores, California will now lose 88 stores with two each in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and 10 in San Diego.

Florida will lose 59 stores, including three each in Tampa and Palm Beach Gardens. Louisiana will lose 13 stores, nine of them in Baton Rouge.

The company announced earlier this month that it would close 600 company-owned stores in the U.S. starting in July and continuing through the first half of the next fiscal year. But Starbucks didn’t say which locations would be shut down, until now.

The move to close the stores is a turnabout from Starbucks’ aggressive expansion plans. But the company curtailed those plans as it saw traffic and its profits decline recently as the faltering economy has led some consumers to question their spending on pricey coffee.

CALIFORNIA: 88
NEW YORK: 39
MICHIGAN: 18
MINNESOTA: 27
PENNSYLVANIA: 21
ILLINOIS: 25

But I will also add:

TEXAS: 57
FLORIDA: 59

Let me note that Karl Rove and the RNC is behind this happening just before the election.

This will be a brutal impact for many latte loving liberal college kids as they will lose an important place to formulate their Bush=Hitler, No Blood for Oil rallies and be able to talk about conspiracies like the super secret government Brown Note devices that are planned for the Democrat Convention.

Political activists planning protest rallies at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver have their stomachs in knots over a rumor about a crowd control weapon - known as the “crap cannon” - that might be unleashed against them.

Also called “Brown Note,” it is believed to be an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily.