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LOS ANGELES - Dozens of Starbucks locations are closing across California.

This comes after the Seattle-based coffee chain announced mass closures across the U.S., Canada, and Europe as part of its new "transformation strategy."

What we know:

The chain will close specific locations "where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, or where we don’t see a path to financial performance," CEO Brian Niccol said in the memo sent to employees and posted on the Starbucks blog .

A public Google sheet has over 200 entries marking likely closures as of late Sept. 25 and a Reddit thread of likely closures has over 230 comments.

The unofficial list contained in the Google Sheet shows 188 locations marked as closing in the U.S., with

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