Many Peet’s Coffee stores in the San Francisco Bay Area will be closing. Peet’s Coffee plans to shutter some stores, including at least two in Southern California, by the end of January. The news comes after American beverage firm Keurig Dr Pepper announced it was buying JDE Peet’s, the European parent company of Emeryville-based Peet’s Coffee. Peet’s Coffee was founded by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peet, a German labor-camp survivor whose family had run a coffee-roasting business. Workers at a Peet’s location in Davis became the first in the nation to form a union in 2023.