The 600 closing stores represent just about 3% of Starbucks'units in the United States, hardly a sign of abject failure, allnote. And that means that re-leasing the units shouldn't be toodifficult.

"It's much ado about nothing," said Jim Sakanich, a senior vicepresident of CB Richard Ellis, Bannockburn, IL. "The one thing Iwould say is that they always pick really good real estate, andgood real estate won't be hard to get rid of."

A number of uses could take the locations, which can vary from1,000 square feet to 1,500 square feet. The most obvious would be afood use.

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