Not to be outdone, Calgarian buys Tims coffee for 500

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

That would be funny if the next person in line after the good samaritan ordered 500 cups of coffee.

[terminator]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

But there are about 20 days in between lent and roll up the rim in 2011...

Yes but RUTR goes throughout Lent.

There are lots of published marketing studies on this, its not a new phenomenon, companies tend to promote during lulls.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

That would be funny if the next person in line after the good samaritan ordered 500 cups of coffee.

I think they were limiting it to 3 drinks per customer so that it couldn't be horribly abused.

[Canada 02]

I was in a Walmart when a person with a big stack of $1 bills was handing them out to kids. Made me smile at the kind and generous gesture. Then a lady walks up to him and says 'I got three kids at home, can I get one for each of them?'. Then I stopped smiling.

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

I was in a Walmart when a person with a big stack of $1 bills was handing them out to kids. Made me smile at the kind and generous gesture. Then a lady walks up to him and says 'I got three kids at home, can I get one for each of them?'. Then I stopped smiling.

$1 bills? This either happened a long, long time ago or in the US.

[worth]

Happened in Ottawa this morning as well:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...samaritan.html

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

I think they were limiting it to 3 drinks per customer so that it couldn't be horribly abused.

Guy in the Metro bought 5 coffees. He said it was his turn to buy for his collegues and it saved him $6

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

$1 bills? This either happened a long, long time ago or in the US.

Canada got rid of the $1 bill (1987) before Wal-Mart came to the country (1994).

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by terminator

Yes but RUTR goes throughout Lent.

There are lots of published marketing studies on this, its not a new phenomenon, companies tend to promote during lulls.

I never noticed this until someone pointed it out, but McDonald's heavily pimps out their Filet O Fish during Lent also.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by worth

Happened in Ottawa this morning as well:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...samaritan.html

"It's definitely not Tim Horton's doing, I can assure you of that," said Michelle Robichard, spokeswoman for Tim Hortons.

Robichaud added these were three separate random acts of kindness by Good Samaritans.

I would agree with that above quote since he's been dead for 40 years.

[sun]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

More like:

FREE COFFEE!


TIM HORTONS

[Northendzone]

the cynic in me wondered if this started as a PR stunt by Tim Horton's - an employee in street clothes walks in, pays for a load of coffee that is funded internally by TH and then a few other misguided (i use this term because i wonder why you would not give $800 to charity vs buying coffee, but whatever) folks do the same and viola, TH gets $1,000's in "free" advertising as the story cirulates across Canada.

[Canada 02]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

$1 bills? This either happened a long, long time ago or in the US.

US, last Christmas

[Drury18]

I would almost have to agree with you Northendzone.

Timmie's has had low profits in 2013, a new CEO (starting July 2nd) and increased competition from McDonald's, Starbucks and other new coffee/tea retailers. Do the "Canadian" thing of making it look like a goodwill gesture and sit back while you have advertising of people buying free coffees in major Canadian cities.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stor...o-profits.html

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/u-s-h...-5-5-1.1330854

EDIT: There's word now that the Tim's on 8th and 7th in downtown Calgary just had a 500 coffee donor this morning.

[TSXCman]

I just bought breakfast at Braeside Tim's. The lady said my $6.50 was paid for by the lady in front of me in the drive through.

Maybe it was her, maybe it was just Tim's doing this thing.

[worth]

Tim Horton's fataing sucks and I never go there. Why doesn't someone do this when i'm in the line at Safeway?

[darklord700]

I don't see the point of doing this. If I really feel charitable, I'll buy food for the Food Bank or the flood victims. Most people in a Tim lineup don't care about a free $2 coffee, it wouldn't change their way or standard of living one bit.

But a donation to food bank will.

[Zarley]

Good lord some of you are pessimistic.

[polak]

Originally Posted by darklord700

I don't see the point of doing this. If I really feel charitable, I'll buy food for the Food Bank or the flood victims. Most people in a Tim lineup don't care about a free $2 coffee, it wouldn't change their way or standard of living one bit.

But a donation to food bank will.

How do you know the person who did this doesn't make real donations elsewhere? There's a lot of people out there (especially in Calgary) to whom $500 isn't much. Maybe they just wanted to give people who don't need charity a little treat?

Someone always has to b****

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by darklord700

I don't see the point of doing this. If I really feel charitable, I'll buy food for the Food Bank or the flood victims. Most people in a Tim lineup don't care about a free $2 coffee, it wouldn't change their way or standard of living one bit.

But a donation to food bank will.

"So shines a good deed in a weary world"

- Willy Wonka