Starbucks Cuts 120 Seattle-Area Corporate Roles in Consumer Discretionary

Starbucks and Lowe's Report Consumer Discretionary Layoffs (Aug. 24–25, 2026)

Starbucks Corporation and Lowe's Companies, Inc. reported a series of workforce reductions in the Consumer Discretionary sector in filings and news reports covering the Aug. 24–25, 2026 window. The aggregated records indicate 378 employees affected across the disclosed actions.

Reported layoffs

• Starbucks Corporation — 120 employees, Washington (Seattle area). Per reporting by The Tennessean and AOL.com, Starbucks said the 120 Washington-based corporate employees were laid off after opting not to relocate to a new corporate office in downtown Nashville. The company characterized the reductions as tied to relocation opt-outs related to a restructuring announced in May and stated the actions were completed by Feb. 1 in a workforce report to Washington state officials. The company also said contract workers were eliminated while the underlying roles remain available to apply for (The Tennessean; AOL.com).

• Starbucks Corporation — 224 employees. This action is recorded in a WARN filing with state regulators, which lists 224 employees affected.

• Lowe's Companies, Inc. — 17 employees (two identical records). Two WARN filings with state regulators each list 17 employees affected by actions attributed to Lowe's Companies, Inc., for a combined 34 employees across the duplicate entries.

The supplied records yield the following tally: 120 (Starbucks, Seattle-area, news reports) + 224 (Starbucks, WARN filing) + 34 (two Lowe's WARN filings of 17 each) = 378 employees affected as captured in the filings and reports between Aug. 24–25, 2026.

Timing and sources

The Seattle-area 120 layoffs were described in news reporting and a workforce report to Washington regulators, per The Tennessean and AOL.com. The other actions for Starbucks Corporation and Lowe's Companies, Inc. appear in WARN filings with state regulators, as noted in the respective records.

Closing

The documented Consumer Discretionary layoffs totaled 378 employees across the supplied WARN notices and news reports. Sources for these facts include state WARN filings and reporting by The Tennessean and AOL.com, as specified above.