Costa Coffee in Canada
 

Just a thought really as Costa Coffee is available in shell petrol stations across Canada..i assume eventually they will open outlets to test the market fully in Canada.

As a consumer would you switch from Starbucks, Second Cup or Tim Hortons and go to Costa Coffee instead? Obviously this is only applicable if you drink coffee from any of the above.

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Starbucks
Costa
Timmies
Second Cup

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Second Cup is massively in debt. I doubt it will be around much longer.

I try and go to independent coffee shops but most of the time they cost more and their coffee tastes like crap.

We have a few smaller chains in Toronto that are ok like Jimmy's, Balzacs and Aroma (from Israel).

I do tend to drink more Starbucks though because it is consistent and in Toronto they are just about on every corner now.

MosMos my favourite coffee in Toronto just opened a second location. Hopefully they expand more as their location is out of my way now.

Costa in the UK was decent but I've not had it here and certainly wouldn't go out of my way for it anymore than I would to a Tim Horton's if I was in the UK.

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Absolutely not! I think Costa is the worst of the worst.

We don't get second cup in Vancouver it's Blenz or Waves. Blenz is better for hot chocolate but it's expensive. I've never really been to Waves.

My preference is Starbucks or Tim Hortons

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i prefer Costa to all of the above..i have found Starbucks has gone down hill in recent years both in the UK and here in Canada..they seem to very good at burning the coffee beans which gives a harsh bitter taste.

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Darn.

I typed a long response and then BE crashed!

Anyway the reason I like Starbucks is they refill free of charge. This winter has been brutal for me as I've had a sciatic nerve injury so haven't been able to gym or snowboard. Spending an hour in Starbucks on Saturday/ Sunday am is a way to get out of the cabin fever I get being stuck in the condo for relatively cheap.

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None of the above!


I always opt for an independent or small chain coffee shop .......... Blenz and Bean Around the World are franchises here, some are good but others are not. I've gradually discovered the good ones to go to when an independent is not in the vicinity. Unfortunately franchises can also change hands, and one can be disappointed!


The only good thing about Starbucks is that almost all of them will have soy milk or other non-dairy alternatives (Express Starbucks excepted), so I can get a latte there ............... and kill what I find to be the over-roasted taste of the coffee with an ample sprinkling of cinnamon.

Only had Costa coffee once in England, never again!

I have never understood the Canadian love for Timmy's coffee ...... though they make super doughnuts, etc etc

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I'm still puzzled by the "need" for it all to be honest.

I love coffee so I'm not dissing it, I just don't understand why it's a thing to buy it in the way people do.

I see people arriving home with it. Why? Can't they make coffee when they get in?

Why buy it just before you get into work, can't you make it at work?

I live a five minute walk from the hospital and there's a Tim Hortons in the lobby. I can understand cab drivers and the like stopping off there and getting one, but people in the neighbourhood go there, buy one and take it home. :confused:

My optician and the clinic where my wife went for her medical infusions both have Keurig machines with a selection of coffees.

Can't other work places have these? It's just a simple H&S inspection isn't it?

Big drip machines, small drip machines. Cafetieres of different sizes. There's an endless choice available for folk to make what suits.

If you're meeting someone for coffee, isn't the meeting the thing and not the coffee? Do you pick a meeting place by coffee rather than a mutually convenient meeting point?

I'll never understand it. :(

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During my recent hospital wanderings, I was fasted for 18 hours then my surgery was cancelled-they had a Costa Coffee in the hospital and maybe I would have drunk blood from a scabby horse given the circumstances but a medium Latte tasted like nectar of the gods- sometime after the surgery i had another and it was still delish -was it the drugs doing things to my head? or ...is it IMO nice coffee- I will give it a go this week
I hasten to add that the CC is the UK version and not the Canadian one which I havent tried

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Thermos is my favourite and way better value.

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It just makes you sound like a cheapskate!

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A connoisseur of value!

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And a new low in prententiousness...

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One tries.

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Costa is yucky coffee.