Coffee-giant Starbucks has announced that due to declining revenues it plans to shutter nearly 200 stores across the nation by the end of September, including two in Long Beach.

The Starbucks locations at 3401 Cherry Ave. (at Wardlow Road) and at 3399 Long Beach Blvd. (at Wardlow Road) are among the 195 stores identified by the firm as either unprofitable or not having enough profit potential. Starbucks said that the stores on its list would be shuttered between April and the end of September.
  
The 195 domestic locations are part of 300 Starbucks operations around the world set for closure this year. The Seattle-based firm said that the closures would result in the loss of 6,000 employees worldwide with another 700 non-store jobs also being slashed.
  
This is the second major round of closures by the firm since last year. In July 2008, Starbucks announced it would shuttered close to 600 stores worldwide. The stores were mostly newer locations identified by the firm as being poorly located or located in over saturated areas.
  
California was hit particularly hard in the latest round, with 76 locations slated for closure. Including Long Beach, Los Angeles County is slated to lose 13 stores, Orange County is losing 12 and the Inland Empire is set to lose 15.