{"id":35938,"date":"2026-09-24T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35938"},"modified":"2026-09-24T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:20:06","slug":"35938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35938","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks closes in Abingdon Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026092406.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nStarbucks arrived in Abingdon on 28 December 2021, bringing its familiar green mermaid to the Market Place. It joined a well-established coffee culture in the town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026092402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt the time, there were two Costas, Java, R&amp;R Coffee, Coffee Aroma and Throwing Buns, while The Missing Bean had opened just a few months earlier. There were also numerous other caf\u00e9s, restaurants and food outlets serving coffee alongside their main offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The Starbucks was unusual among the Market Place coffee shops, with very little outside seating. There were plenty of seats inside.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026092409.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlmost five years later, the sign and mermaid have disappeared from the Market Place and the windows are blacked out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026092408.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBehind the shop, equipment, packaging, cups and other Starbucks-branded items were piled up in the service area, and cartons of white chocolate &#8211; caramalised &#8211; banana flavour sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee drinkers in Abingdon are still well catered for, but there is no Starbucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks arrived in Abingdon on 28 December 2021, bringing its familiar green mermaid to the Market Place. It joined a well-established coffee culture in the town centre. At the time, there were two Costas, Java, R&amp;R Coffee, Coffee Aroma and Throwing Buns, while The Missing Bean had opened just a few months earlier. There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}