[Newsbot]

Title: Tim Hortons faces backlash after yanking Enbridge ads from stores
Category: Business
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-06-05 15:09:38
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

I don't want to be advertised to while in any line where I'm actually buying a product. I'd like it more if they pulled all ads (except for their own, of course).

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I don't want to be advertised to while in any line where I'm actually buying a product. I'd like it more if they pulled all ads (except for their own, of course).

Goes to show how greed did them in. Ad revenue must be minuscule compared to coffee, and wind up not being able to please everybody. They should substitute pics of things that make people want to buy more, like beer ads but for donuts. Instead of beautiful people having fun with beer, show some heavy people having a riot eating donuts.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I don't want to be advertised to while in any line where I'm actually buying a product. I'd like it more if they pulled all ads (except for their own, of course).

Goes to show how greed did them in. Ad revenue must be minuscule compared to coffee, and wind up not being able to please everybody. They should substitute pics of things that make people want to buy more, like beer ads but for donuts. Instead of beautiful people having fun with beer, show some heavy people having a riot eating donuts.

I wouldn't see the point. I'm already in the store. You don't need to get me further in the store, only to upsell me. Which isn't going to happen, but they have to try anyhow.

And they do have some 'doughnut porn' on the displays in store. Just makes my stomach churn with all the sugary treats!

[BRAH]

The bigger issue is how Tim Horton's bowed to the pressure of 28,000 hypocrites opening Pandora's box.

[herbie]

Some backlash.
What bused all 50 supporters around on a Timmies crawl?
Show what happens when you let Americans who don't have a local clue take over.

[Thanos]

Pretty much fizzled out, as far as outrage-of-the-moment goes. The single protest in Calgary drew about 30 people, who were outnumbered by about ten-to-one during their protest outside the one outlet by those who went in for coffee and such. Ginned-up SUN-inspired Twitter-based protests are pretty lame, so it turns out.

Enbridge will survive. Just have events where the coffee comes from McDonalds and the donuts come from Robins and send the message to Tim's that way. Wasn't even a Tim's decision to get rid of the ads anyway, more like the shit-fer-brains big-wig corporate dickheads from the KFC/Wendy's head office in New York decided to do.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

Wasn't even a Tim's decision to get rid of the ads anyway, more like the shit-fer-brains big-wig corporate dickheads from the KFC/Wendy's 3G Capital head office in New York Rio de Janeiro decided to do.

FTFY

[herbie]

Hasn't fizzled out in the NP. Two articles today about the 'traitorous' removal of the ads, how Timmies is going against the majority of its own working class customers and how it may spell the end of Tim Hortons.
No mention yet of the stupidity of corporate greed for ad revenue without thinking first...

[N_Fiddledog]

$1:

Longtime conservative activist Stephen Taylor is credit[ed] with starting the #boycottTims trend on Twitter but Taylor, a public affairs consultant, has some advice on how Tim Horton's can turn this mistake and controversy around.

http://www.therebel.media/_boycotttims_ ... or_the_man

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Pretty much fizzled out, as far as outrage-of-the-moment goes. The single protest in Calgary drew about 30 people, who were outnumbered by about ten-to-one during their protest outside the one outlet by those who went in for coffee and such. Ginned-up SUN-inspired Twitter-based protests are pretty lame, so it turns out.

The same thing happened down here a couple years ago when the LGBT crowd tried to bully and intimidate Chick-Fil-A into firing their Christian and pro-family CEO.

Conservatives and Christians answered the leftist boycott with a conservative buycott and Chick-Fil-A profits soared. The company is now doing better than ever!

[Alta_redneck]

Seems to be working here in small town central Alberta where we only have 1 outlet. Friday I noticed only a 1 car lineup at 12:05 for the lunch hour, same today but a bit later at 12:40pm.

Usually there's about 10 - 12 car lineup from 11:30 to 1:30 and always it seems to have a 3 to 5 car lineup at least until 5:00pm or so, and that isn't happening right now.