Starbucks closes its first Canadian store

Starbucks Corp. is shutting down its first-ever store in Canada, the Aberdeen Centre location in Richmond, B.C. There are nine other Starbucks stores in Richmond and a total of 365 Starbucks in British Columbia.

Here are the number of Starbucks in the other provinces:

Alberta 211
Manitoba 48
New Brunswick 7
Newfoundland-Labrador 3
Nova Scotia 8
Ontario 322
Quebec 40
Saskatchewan 15
Yukon 2

In an online story on cbcnews.ca, the Seattle-based coffee retailer said "the decision to close was caused by current economic conditions and because the location itself was under-performing."

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