Yes! I can boycott this american business on home turf once they arrive.
CEO Peter Mammas believes he can open “600 to 700” of the American donut and coffee chain locations in Canada
CEO Peter Mammas is an idiot.
Kay but there’s clearly demand for this garbage given how crap Tim Hortons has gotten yet still remains in business.
The previous failure and departure from Canada DD did would suggest otherwise, and that wasn’t even in a hostile environment.
I’m commenting that Tim Hortons sucks now. Nothing more.
As long as you aren’t counting the honey cruller I’m with you
If you’re in Vancouver, go to Lee’s instead. Actually Canadian, and arguably the best doughnuts on the planet (I’ve checked!)
Don’t post this. You’re just going to start a fight with the Honey’s Donuts crowd!
I don’t actually love Lee’s. But Honey’s is great.
This is going to work even more poorly than Target’s Canadian adventure did. Canadian consumers are not as gullible and stupid as American companies hope, and now they’re also very angry.
What Target launched up here was a hot mess that doesn’t resemble a US Target at all.
Also Canadians expected the same goods sold at US Targets at the same prices which was never going to happen. Most of those items aren’t sold in Canada period - Target couldn’t magically get Neutrogena to sell all the same items they do in the US just as they couldn’t get Chobani to magically be able to sell yogurt here. Target ended up being a shittily supplied version of Walmart with bare shelves and the same products you can get anywhere else in Canada at bad prices.
Dunkin will be no different but given how people here like their garbage Timmy « coffee » and eating at Chuck’s Roadhouse who knows.
How can a business not read the room, so bad that it is going to cost them millions of dollars? I hope one comes to Saskatoon so I can purposely boycott it!
Arrogance, and probably bullshit market studies from a contractor
This is going to work just about as well as Target did. Unless their coffee is cheaper than Tim Hortons AND McDonalds it’s not gonna work. I can get an extra large double double at McD’s for $2. at Tims it’s like 50cents more. So Dunkin is gonna have to have an extra large coffee for less than $2 to be a success here. And it’s not like it has to taste good, I mean hell Tims is just mud in a cup that may or may not get stirred, it just has to be cheap.
Funny thing is there are rumours of Target coming back?
K well this time they’re not allowed to build those red circle bollards. Pretty sure those things have been through 6 businesses and repainted 4 different colours.
I don’t know, they’re a very American brand, maybe not as much as Tim’s is Canadian (in the sense of brand perception/ cultural significance). Even though McDonald’s is American, it’s been here so long and is so global it doesn’t feel American.
Gross.
I look forward to their catastrophic failure.
Being a massive company, this plan didn’t start yesterday. Maybe not even yesteryear. How long has this plan been cooking to be thrown away like this?
I mean, if it creates a bit of competition with tim Hortons I wouldn’t complain. Maybe they might be forced to actually go back to freshly baked doughnuts and proper coffee
Don’t get your hopes up, Dunkin is doodoo
So is tims
I gathered that from the post I replied to
Oh great, it’s gonna attract cops.
takes cover
Pass
Good luck with that ya fucking USAians.
Call them yanks.
I would still be loyal to Tim Hortons if they weren’t American-owned. So my loyalty to the once Canadian firm is gone. Bring on another Yanky Donuts shop.
This is special. I’m happy to see that new restaurant open in our country. How lucky we are.
