BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 03:11 PM

I almost always buy my Timmies with stray coins. Sometimes with quickpay cards which proliferate as stocking stuffers and in office gift exchanges at Christmas. Gotta love the look on their faces when I want them to use my tea bag. I always regret when I don't do that, their orange pekoe is pretty awful.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 12:53 PM

No, Timmie's is one of the last stands of the hard-cash economy. I gather they don't want to pay the 7% royalty to the bank -- no surprise there.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: clueless don
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 09:48 AM

We went to Vancouver last summer, and Tim Horton's was a pleasant find. I was rather irritated, however, that they wouldn't take VISA.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: GUEST,Fred
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 12:05 AM

Tim Horton made good doughnuts
And he could shoot a puck.
Tim Horton made good coffee
But he couldn't drive worth a f%$&

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 10:44 PM

I was on my way out of the city last Friday. As I approached the PATH [Port Authority TransHudson {subway}] at Herald Square in NYC, what to my wondering eyes did appear but a Tim's on the Broadway side, South of 34th Street. We bin invaded!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 02:12 PM

ER up ta Horton's eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 02:20 PM

Last time I was in Canada (Nova Scotia, PEI & New Brunswick), we lumpen proles decided we liked Tim Horton's, especially with 3 generations in play (aged 7 to 82). I think I'm a Ron James convert -- thanks, gnu!!

~ Becky in Long Beach, missing the great north...

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 02:19 PM

EBarnacle, where are you located? My wife and I were sitting in the Tim's here in Lapeer, Michigan this morning, and some of the regulars were telling us that 5 locations near here have been abandoned by Starbucks and taken over by Tim's recently.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 01:16 PM

Comedian Ron James on Tim's (and Starbucks).

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 11:26 AM

It seems that Tim Horton's is at war with Starbuck's--at least in Michigan.


Starbucks losing coffee clash with Canadians
Tim Horton's is moving in where the Seattle coffee icon is closing up shop.
Posted by InvestorPlace on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:42 AM
With a statewide unemployment rate of about 15%, Michigan isn't exactly on the hot list of growth opportunities right now. That is, unless you're Tim Horton's (THI) and you're looking to beat Starbucks (SBUX) on American soil.



Why Michigan? First, Starbucks is showing signs of weakness there. Since 2008, the Seattle coffee icon has been closing underperforming locations in the Wolverine State. Seven sites were shuttered in 2009, with as many as 18 more on the way out this year. That gives THI an opportunity to step into a market where SBUX is losing momentum.

•Video: Is coffee good for you?

But this isn't a quiet campaign with Tim Horton's moving stealthily behind the scenes.





The Canadian coffee shop and bakery is waging an all-out war against Starbucks this year -- and Michigan is the front line.

•Is Tim Horton's a Top Seven Canadian Stock?
Tim Horton's is planning an ambitious expansion effort in the coming months that will add 125 stores with 2,000 employees in the state.   



THI's battle plan includes capitalizing on already loyal customers in the region and concentrating on value for cash-strapped consumers. The company also benefits from a wider variety of breakfast and lunch items, including bagels, soups, sandwiches and pastries.




Starbucks has tried to break out of its java-centric mold recently by offering new panini sandwiches, but the company has a long way to go if it wants to appeal to more than just coffee drinkers and remain a coffee stock that will perk up your portfolio.



Starbucks recently posted strong earnings, easily topping earnings per share estimates of 28 cent, thanks to same-store sales growth of about 4%. But there's no doubt that the company has lost a lot of ground compared with its juggernaut status a few years ago.




Tim Horton's has been steadily growing in Canada and continues to cut into Starbucks' market share in the northern United States. This move to capitalize on Starbucks' weakness in Michigan could really pay off down the road.



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Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 03:07 PM

Second Cup is a Canadian chain with good coffee and a selection of pastries. Much preferable to Tim....
Also several coffees for sale in the bean, including 'organics'.

The better Starbucks have a larger selection of beans for sale, but the coffee by the cup is much better at some outlets than at others. Second Cup on average seems a bit more careful about preparation.

Timbo's? Ugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 12:01 PM

I prefer MickyD's for coffee - Newman's Own. YUM dark and rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:27 PM

Q, when I was riding shotgun on a press trip through the Carolinas a few years ago, we were welcomed to Winston Salem by the local press officer - with Krispy Kreme! Apparently they are very proud of the company there.

I like a cruller, me. Tim Hortons in the UK doesn't seem to stock them.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:24 PM

Each to his own; I generally have to admit to having a major sweet tooth, but to me Krispy Kremes are so gloppy I can barely stomach them.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:49 PM

Ah (or Ugh?), Krispy Creme. This outfit has spread its tentacles from North Carolina to Walmart to Tesco in UK to Saudi Arabia, Korea (kim chee filling?) to Petro-Canada in Canada (try dunked in their premium grade).
Near bankruptcy a few years back, it has been rejuvenated.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:19 PM

I have absolutely no conception of the significance (or otherwise) of Tim Hortons, but they have just started appearing as small concessions in Spar shops (convenience stores) in the UK.

So far, I prefer Krispy Kreme.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:09 PM

Tim Horton and his Maple Leaf team have imbeded loyality into to their brand. Proving that it's not the quality of the coffee, the dougnut, or the hockey that counts with many loyal followers.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:49 PM

Perhaps Starbucks will buy out the Timshops and close them down.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:39 PM

"buy"

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:38 PM

I'm not going on record defending Tims but I couldn't help but wonder why he kept going back if he hated the coffee? I don't like the coffee either so I don't but it! Duh.......

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 01:42 PM

All coffee tastes like burnt water. What's his problem?

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:26 AM

Probably more like he figured he should get free stuff like the RCMP get. (Used to get? Haven't been in a Tim's for 30 years.)

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: bankley
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:27 AM

so he can only get into the Shop if he's responding to an emergency..like if someone chokes on a timbit

hmmm, not good promo for TH.... it made the TV news

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 02:50 PM

OMG!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 06:10 PM

It sure makes dough for the Timbit shareholders:)
I used to enjoy ham and cheese tea buscuits at Tim s. The size varied by store, and some stores had substantial ones (and I knew where they were). Now they are all the same size, mostly tinyl....likely weighed to minimize shipping (more frozen teaspoon-sized blobs per truck). I don t eat 'em anymore. I suspect if one gets through to the store and does not conform to size, a bit larger, they are taught at Tims school to cut the extra off and turf it in the recycle bin, in the interest of consistancy.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 05:27 PM

Are you suggesting, Ed, that the dognuts now semi-cooked, frozen and shipped to Atlanic Canada from Tronna in refridgerated semis and placed in microwave ovens when the computers tell the wee teenagers to do so are DOUGHY?

ccchhhhggghhhh... ED T.... pick him up for questioning... ccchhhggghhh....

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 04:08 PM

Bob the Postman , remain clam. It's only coffee and doughnuts (donuts to some, dough to others).

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 01:30 PM

When's the last time you brought a pigion out of the cold and snow into Tim's and bought it a hot cuppa and a jelly doughnut?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: number 6
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 11:49 AM

I must say I deplore the mockery in this thread in regards to the noble pigeon ... the species that risked their lives flying over the trenches in WWI transporting important messages to the good guys ... the pigeon also includes the dove ... the symbol of peace .. and I don't mean peace as in Bruce, I mean peace as in .... ah forget it

... now back to our favourite cup of java and jelly donuts.

biLL   :)

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 11:42 AM

Several of us young Uni lads used to go to "The Ex" (Exhibition Grounds) in Fredericton, NB every Thursday for clams and chips. I would throw one frie "over there" and then feed a one-legged pigion I named "Stump".

One day, a new lad came with. He threw a few leftovers in the garbage bin. I asked why he didn't give them to the pigions. "Pigions are rats with wings; fuck em." I told him the next Thursday that it was a waste and those poor birds were only trying to make a living. "Fuck em!" and he laughed. Next time, I ate quickly and waited. I asked him if I could have his leftovers. "Yer just gonna feed the rats." He started for the garbage bin, upon which I fed the rats with his leftovers and fed him, upside down, into the bin.

Don't get me wrong. I "dislike" pigions as they are filthy and carry disease and lice. But I ain't cruel.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 11:27 AM

Hahahahahaheheheeee... Bob... you are battin a thou!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 08:29 AM

I deplore the way in which certain posters are defiling this important thread by trying to turn it into a discussion of icky molluscs or whatever the hell they are. If you want to talk clams, start a clam thread.

Gnu, I wonder if many of the one-legged pigeons didn't find work in the burgeoning McNugget trade.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 04:16 AM

Ed... yes, cohog is incorrect, but it's easy to pronounce.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:49 PM

BTW,
Yim Hortons is a new Tim Horton knock=off coffee shop in China. It serves Yim bits rolled in English shelly. Instead of the rill up the rim contest, they have the "Open up the Yim horton cookie and receivean important fortune message, honourable customer contest"

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:42 PM

Co hog maybe. More likely quahog, or quahaug?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:32 PM

Anyone remember the early Yim's Travel mugs (maybe the 70's) . They were yellow, with a handle(maybe white later), looked like a childs sippie cup and had a brown section that stuck to your car dash that the cup slid into. I recall a big Timbit character on the front.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 06:15 PM

Okay... the secret... that I have told on other threads...

Shediac Bay, according to a prof at UNB that gave an after dinner talk at my residence in 1978, has a parasite that lives in the gut of mollusks that make them taste SOOO much better. I swear it's true.

Beer... no worries... I can buy them bottled at Chubby's Variety up the road... expensive, but worth every penny. Ta hell with lobster or anything else... les'og d' bar est manifiques! Bonne scoff eh, bah goddam!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Beer
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 05:59 PM

When I visited Gnu a few years back I stopped first in Shediac and had a great visit with my Aunt. She proceeded to do up a co-hogs Chowder. Man I can still taste them. When I left She gave me two bottles which I packed in my cooler. I'm afraid I was a little greedy and didn't tell Gnu.
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Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 02:00 PM

Oh ... BTW, keeping in tune to the subject of the thread (somewhat) ... the best Tim Horton's I have ever been to ( in all of Canada and New England) are to be found on Main Street, Sussex, New brunswick and on Hilyard Street, Saint John, New Brunswick.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 01:47 PM

"Now, "Be...in this place." Idiots!"

Ann expressed those very words upon first seeing the plates. She can't can't understand why they changed it from "a nice place to visit" ... I think those plates are ugly ... but I do like the chickadee picture.

Haven't been up to Shediac in quite while ... if the cohogs are as good as the ones I had down in Cape Cod I'll be pleased.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 01:26 PM

sIx... they ACTUALLY went ahead and change the license plates... the stunned as me arse politicians are doing their part!

(It was "The Picture Province". Short, sweet, brought immediate thoughts like it might be a nice place to visit. Now, "Be...in this place." Idiots!)

If you ever get around Shediac Bay, check out the cohogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 12:58 PM

gnu .... the ones down here in SJ are small .... sorta like anemic mussels .... but then they are probably out of the harbour here in SJ where they happen to dump raw sewage.

anyway ... i think all of this is a conspiracy to discredit the merits of N.B.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 12:42 PM

sIx.... cohogs are bar clams and they are big buggers. Make the best clam chowder, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: bankley
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 12:37 PM

quahogs and coffee ? a status quahog conspiracy, no doubt !

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 12:03 PM

spelling is cohogs ..... not too popular here in New Brunswick. They are smaller than the ones I have had down on Cape Cod. Are you sure they weren't perriwinkles? Never seen anyone carrying cohogs here in a bucket, but I did meet some guy with a limp with a bucket of perriwinkles down around Dipper Harbour n.b.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 11:52 AM

Hey clam diggers i was hitchiking through New Brunswick playing me guitar selling cds when some guy passed by with these things you call KO HOGS in a bucket .I`m not sure if thats how you spell em but i`m sure clever ted will correct me on that one..Yes the pigons eggs apparently get harder when Ko Hog shells are consumed..They were great, almost as good as West Chezzetcook clams.Who would ever a guessed after 1755 and we still can share clams ,Ko.Hogs and pigions with wooden legs, how wounderful ah ..t.j.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: bbc
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:01 PM

There's a Tim Horton's just across the street from the motel where we always stay when we are in Brunswick, Maine. Open 24 hours, it's a godsend in a place where most restaurants close at 8 pm! It's not gourmet, but you can get a bowl of hot soup, a sandwich or wrap, a snack or dessert & friendly, quick service. Adds up to pretty good in my book!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 09:55 PM

Conspiracy theories? Every tiny little village in Acadia has a minimum of three Tim Horton's while I have to drive 50 km for my double double steeped tea and raisin bran muffin. This is not a theory. I'm sorry as hell about 1755, even though it wasn't my fault. I don't know how vous autres managed to corner the Horton franchise market but the time has come to let bygones be bygones.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 05:14 PM

Bob.... hehehehehe.

And, don't forget.... years ago, the Timmy's coffee sold included the "recycled Tim's", sold as new, made from the old wooden stir sticks left in the parking lots all over town. Indeed, they trained one-legged pigeons to retrieve the stir sticks for making more coffee and then sending the sticks to the Tim's summer camps for arts and crafts classes.

Of course, when the pigions voted for unionization, Tim's went with the plastic stir sticks and all the one-legged pigions had to seek refuge at nestless centres and apply for unemployment enjoyment insurance. And that is why you very seldom see one legged pigeons nowadays. Well, not at Timmmy's anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Cleverthreads (inactive)
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 02:20 PM

If you have a firm belief in conspiracy theories (I don't) then the preceding postings might make sense, but what started out as a novel little thread, quickley degenrated into a load of rubbish. Sad really.