By de Ann Durbin, AP business author

Starbucks said on Thursday that it closes hundreds of us, Canadian stores and lay off 900 non -contestants because he focuses more of his resources on A. turn around.

The coffee giant in Seattle said that closing the store would start immediately. The company will not offer a number of stores that are closed, but it said it expects to have 18,300 sites when its financial year ends on Sunday. As of June 29, the company had 18,734 sites.

In a research note on Thursday, the TD Cowen Andrew Charles analyst that Starbucks will close about 500 stores in the fourth fiscal quarter.

Starbucks said that workers in his stores will be offered to be transferred to other locations wherever possible and separation packages.

Starbucks said it would notify non -infiltrators whose positions are eliminated early on Friday. Starbucks asked the employees who can work from home to do this on Thursday and Friday.

In a letter sent to the employees on Thursday, the Chairman and CEO of Starbucks Brian Nicole said that a review of the company’s stores has identified sites where the company does not see a path to financial stability or unable to create the physical environment that customers expect. These stores are closed.

“Every year, we open and close the café for various reasons, from financial performance to the expiration of the rent,” Nicole wrote. “This is a more important procedure that we understand will affect partners and clients. Our cafes are centers of society, and to close any place is difficult.”

Starbucks said it expects to spend one billion dollars on restructuring, including $ 150 million on the advantages of dismissing employees and 850 million dollars related to the closure of the actual store and the cost of rent outside.

Starbucks shares fell by 1 % in morning trading on Thursday.

It was not immediately clear the number of stores that close the unions. The workers have voted in 650 stores owned by the company’s Starbucks stores on the union since 2021, but they have not reached a contract agreement with the company.

The workers at Starbucks United, the working group that organizes workers on Thursday, said the closure had been done without inputs from Paristas Starbucks. The Federation said it intends to engage in bargaining in every store represented in the federation, which is closed to ensure that workers are placed in another store they prefer.

Al -Ittihad said: “Reforming what has been broken in Starbucks is not possible without expanding people who deal with the company’s customers day after day.”

The news closing the store came a little more than a week after the union employees in three states A lawsuit against Starbucks Over the course of the new clothing law, saying that the company refused to pay the workers who had to buy new clothes.