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Archive for January 30th, 2009

Starbucks closes at CherryVale Mall

Add comment January 30th, 2009

The Starbucks store inside CherryVale Mall near Bergners has closed, but coffee drinkers can still get their fix at a nearby bookstore.

Starbucks closed its doors on Thursday. Cindy Hindes, the mall’s marketing director, said the store had been on a month-to-month lease since September.

Hindes also said the Starbucks was a corporate location, meaning it wasn’t run by a local franchise owner. Seattle-based Starbucks announced on Thursday that it planned to close about 300 more underperforming, company-operated stores across the globe.

The Rockford region survived the first round of Starbucks cuts last summer when the company announced it was closing 600 stores.

Starbucks now has three free-standing locations in Rockford: 6239 E. State St.; 3001 N. Perryville Road; and 7474 E. State St. The Barnes & Noble bookstore inside CherryVale Mall still sells Starbucks coffee.

The coffee chain also has stores in Machesney Park and Roscoe, and two in Belvidere if you count the stand at the tollway oasis.