[Finance] Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn

[dazzer6666]

I read that it’s because younger people are drinking more coffee than fizzy pop these days. Lots of “woke” sixth formers sitting around in coffee shops taking about feelings rather than heading to the shittiest boozer in town and trying to get served. Makes business sense I suppose. I don’t drink coffee very much (it goes through me like a dose of salts and makes my feet twitchy) except as a treat after a meal out with lots of cream and sugar.

I only drink pop when I’m hungover but I tend to go for the big cheapo own brand stuff for 19p a litre. I’m not really Costa or Cokes’s target market.

Coffe places let them stay for HOURS having only bought one drink, and they have free wifi. Shitty boozers and their equally shitty landlords don’t tend to be as accommodating.......

 

[brightn'ove]

I think the youngsters think it’s trendy now to walk around with a Costa cup.

Hmm or maybe there are just a lot of costas?

 

[Dick Head]

I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid, and even then only if I was feeling flush.

 

[theboybilly]

Starbucks is the best of a bad bunch - I would rather fill a flask at home

 

[Beach Hut]

Starbucks is the best of a bad bunch - I would rather fill a flask at home

Just don't take the flask to the Amex

 

[WhingForPresident]

Starbucks is the best of a bad bunch - I would rather fill a flask at home

Not sure if they have either around Brighton yet, but Second Cup, a Canadian company that now have a few shops around the country, and Coffee#1, owned by Brains brewery, do better coffee than Starbucks, Caffe Nero and the like in my experience.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I don't drink coffee.

But I do drink tea.
And just the once I went to one of these places, possibly Starbucks.
Mrs Chopper had her fancy coffee and she got me some tea, or at least I thought it was, weak as piss it was, no matter how long Ieft the tea bag in and wrung it out it got no better and as for the cost, bloody £3.50 or something.
And now the 2 muffins she purchased, what's all that about, they were £32 pounds each.
The only mugs in these places are the people who walk through the door.
Why not go to a nice little independent Italian cafe?
Or I hear the coffee in MacDonalds is good.
These coffee houses make my piss boil, full of pretentious ooh look at me and my americano flat white and a flapjack.
Fakkin rip off I tell yer.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Not sure if they have either around Brighton yet, but Second Cup, a Canadian company that now have a few shops around the country, and Coffee#1, owned by Brains brewery, do better coffee than Starbucks, Caffe Nero and the like in my experience.

Yup, do coffee#1 in Carmarthen, surprised anyone has heard of them! and Carmarthen

 

[seagullwedgee]

Alison Brittain, the current CEO of Whitbread Group (who are selling the Costa chain and brand) was my direct boss in her previous role in the UK, and I can tell you (and this is me speaking, not a sauce) she is one very very sharp cookie. Great deal, manipulating the pieces of the group she runs superbly well.

 

[sir albion]

Costa coffee seems to be appalling no matter where you get it. Yes, I said it, coffee snob shame me all you like.

They've done an amazing job of building a brand on absolutely nothing, no USP whatsoever yet they dominate the market.

Great marketing and business acumen, crap product lapped up by people that wouldn't know a good coffee if it slapped them in the chops.

I love the costa coffee....The Vanilla/coconut latte is immense although yes it doesn't appeal to many but their shops are normally well busy so it's a very good shop indeed going by that fact !!

 

[The Clamp]

I don't drink coffee.

But I do drink tea.
And just the once I went to one of these places, possibly Starbucks.
Mrs Chopper had her fancy coffee and she got me some tea, or at least I thought it was, weak as piss it was, no matter how long Ieft the tea bag in and wrung it out it got no better and as for the cost, bloody £3.50 or something.
And now the 2 muffins she purchased, what's all that about, they were £32 pounds each.
The only mugs in these places are the people who walk through the door.
Why not go to a nice little independent Italian cafe?
Or I hear the coffee in MacDonalds is good.
These coffee houses make my piss boil, full of pretentious ooh look at me and my americano flat white and a flapjack.
Fakkin rip off I tell yer.

I happen to agree with your post on the whole but I think you're exaggerating a tad here?

 

[FloatLeft]

I’ve sworn never to purchase a Costa coffee again since their marketing department decided that because the ‘Flat White’ was so popular they would create a ‘Flat Black’ which is just a black coffee.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Coffe places let them stay for HOURS having only bought one drink, and they have free wifi. Shitty boozers and their equally shitty landlords don’t tend to be as accommodating.......

Except every Wetherspoons which has unlimited coffee for about a quid. Plus it's Lavazza which is actually better than the stuff they serve at Costa.

 

[dazzer6666]

Except every Wetherspoons which has unlimited coffee for about a quid. Plus it's Lavazza which is actually better than the stuff they serve at Costa.

Our local Spoons has the big flask things....it’s awful

 

[LlcoolJ]

Our local Spoons has the big flask things....it’s awful

Oh dear. The ones here have been replaced with proper machines so you can get as much (half) decent espresso as you like.