Editing Starbucks (section)

==== 2000s ====
In April 2003, Starbucks acquired [[Seattle's Best Coffee]] and [[Torrefazione Italia]] from [[AFC Enterprises]] for US$72 million. The deal only gained 150 stores for Starbucks, but according to the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]],'' the wholesale business was more significant.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/A-grande-deal-for-Starbucks-1112460.php | title=A grande deal for Starbucks | work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | last=Frey | first=Christine | date=April 16, 2003}}</ref>

By June 2003, Starbucks Japan had 466 stores and would add another 70 to 75 in the 2003 financial year. Its president, Yuji Tsunoda said it would install ovens in all stores to improve its food offerings.<ref>{{cite news |title=Troubled brew |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/today20030611-1.2.34.1 |work=Today (Singaporean newspaper) |agency=Bloomberg |date=June 11, 2003}}</ref>

From 2005 to 2007, [[Howard Behar]] served as the president of Starbucks North America.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/01/28/story12.html | title=Talking with Howard Behar | first=Jeanne Lang | last=Jones | work=[[American City Business Journals]] | date=January 27, 2008}}</ref>

In September 2006, rival [[Diedrich Coffee]] announced that it would sell most of its company-owned retail stores to Starbucks, including most locations of Oregon-based Coffee People, escalating regional [[coffee wars]]. Starbucks converted the Diedrich Coffee and Coffee People locations to Starbucks. The Coffee People locations at [[Portland International Airport]] were excluded from the sale.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-fi-diedrich15-story.html | title=Diedrich to Sell Cafes to Rival | last=Hirsch | first=Jerry | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=September 15, 2006 | url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In early 2008, Starbucks started a community website, My Starbucks Idea, designed to collect suggestions and feedback from customers. Other users could comment and vote on suggestions. Journalist Jack Schofield noted that "My Starbucks seems to be all sweetness and light at the moment, which I don't think is possible without quite a lot of censorship."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/mar/24/netbytes.starbucks | title=Starbucks lets customers have their say |last=Schofield | first=Jack | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=March 24, 2008 | location=[[London]]}}</ref>

In March 2008, Starbucks acquired [[Coffee Equipment Company]], which was the manufacturer of the Clover Brewing System. It began testing the "fresh-pressed" coffee system at several Starbucks locations in Seattle, California, New York, and Boston.<ref name="Tasting">{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/dining/26starbucks.html |title=Tasting the Future of Starbucks Coffee From a New Machine | last=Schwaner-Albright | first=Oliver | work=[[The New York Times]] | url-access=subscription | date=March 26, 2008 | issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In July 2008, during the [[Great Recession]], Starbucks announced it was closing 600 underperforming company-owned stores and cutting U.S. expansion plans amid growing economic uncertainty.<ref>{{cite news | title=Coffee Crisis? Starbucks Closing 600 Stores | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=5288740&page=1 | first= Charles | last=Herman | work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] | date=July 1, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121494400432420449 | title=Starbucks to Shut 500 More Stores, Cut Jobs | first=Janet | last=Adamy | work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | date=July 2, 2008 | url-access=subscription}}</ref> On July 29, 2008, Starbucks also cut almost 1,000 non-retail jobs as part of its bid to re-energize the brand and boost its profit. Of the new cuts, 550 of the positions were layoffs and the rest were unfilled jobs.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thestar.com/business/2008/07/29/starbucks_to_cut_1000_jobs.html | title=Starbucks cuts 1,000 non-store jobs | agency=[[Associated Press]] | via=[[Toronto Star]] | last=Shepherd | first=Lauren |date=July 29, 2008}}</ref>

Additionally in July 2008, Starbucks announced that it would close 61 of its 84 stores in Australia in the following month.<ref>{{cite news | last=Allison | first=Melissa | url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-closing-73-of-australian-stores/ | title=Starbucks closing 73% of Australian stores | work=[[The Seattle Times]] | date=July 29, 2008 | url-access=limited}}</ref> Nick Wailes, an expert in strategic management of the [[University of Sydney]], said that "Starbucks failed to truly understand Australia's café culture."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2008/07/31/starbucks-what-went-wrong.html | title=Starbucks: What went wrong? | first=Daniel | last=Palmer | work=Australian Food News | date=July 31, 2008}}</ref>

In January 2009, Starbucks announced the closure of an additional 300 underperforming stores and the elimination of 7,000 positions. CEO Howard Schultz also announced that he had received board approval to reduce his salary.<ref>{{cite news | title=Starbucks to Close More Stores | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123317714771825681 | first=Janet | last=Adamy | work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | date=January 28, 2009 | url-access=subscription}}</ref> Altogether, from February 2008 to January 2009, Starbucks terminated an estimated 18,400 U.S. jobs and began closing 977 stores worldwide.<ref>{{Cite news | last=Allison | first=Melissa | date=March 3, 2009 | url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/howard-schultz-says-no-more-layoffs-planned-at-starbucks/ | title=No more layoffs at Starbucks, Schultz says | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104212729/http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/coffee/2009/03/03/no_more_layoffs_at_starbucks_s.html | archive-date=January 4, 2016 | url-access=limited}}</ref>

In August 2009, [[Ahold]] announced closures and rebranding for 43 of its licensed store Starbucks kiosks for their US-based [[Stop & Shop]] and [[Giant-Landover|Giant]] supermarkets.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/stop-shop-shifts-course-on-coffee | title=Stop & Shop Shifts Course On Coffee | work=Hartfordbusiness.com | first=Howard | last=French | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412125830/http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news9832.html | archive-date=April 12, 2010 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Chesto | first=Jon | url=https://www.patriotledger.com/article/20090828/NEWS/308289685 | title=Stop & Shop and sister chain closing 43 in-store Starbucks kiosks | work=[[The Patriot Ledger]] | date=August 28, 2009 |url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527174325/http://www.patriotledger.com/business/x1080448841/Stop-Shop-and-sister-chain-closing-43-in-store-Starbucks-kiosks | archive-date=May 27, 2011}}</ref>