Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
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#2Am I the only one that is noticing a lot of BBC articles reaching HN frontpage that have nothing to do with tech?
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#3Am I the only one that is noticing a lot of BBC articles reaching HN frontpage that have nothing to do with tech?
HN is for more than tech.
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#4When I lived in the states a friend of mine always used to say: “Starbucks sells fat and sugar to people, so their mainly competing against McDonalds”
That made a lot of sense to me, and I could understand much better why they would introduce McCafes. Thus I think that this is probably a smart move although a bit late...
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#5When I lived in the states a friend of mine always used to say: “Starbucks sells fat and sugar to people, so their mainly competing against McDonalds” That made a lot of sense to me, and I could understand much better why they would introduce McCafes. Thus I think that this is probably a smart move although a bit late...
I think Costa does more normal teas and coffees rather than milkshakes or whatever you're referring to.
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#6I’m kind of surprised post-sales tax nexus Amazon hasn’t bought a coffee chain yet. Starbucks might be too big to do comfortably, but a combination of some higher end local brands (Intelligentsia, Philz, etc) aggregated into some overarching metabrand would be interesting. Let the cafes run everything as they have, with infinite capital available, and focus on providing additional value added services on premise (obviously lockers but maybe some next-gen amazon services).
Philz would almost make sense if they could put 1Gbps connectivity into AWS and specifically base the performance of the deal on AWS signups.
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#7Am I the only one that is noticing a lot of BBC articles reaching HN frontpage that have nothing to do with tech?
It goes in cycles. If there's a good article from a new or irregular (for HN) site, you'll see a lot more articles from thast site show up on the frontpage.
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#8When I lived in the states a friend of mine always used to say: “Starbucks sells fat and sugar to people, so their mainly competing against McDonalds” That made a lot of sense to me, and I could understand much better why they would introduce McCafes. Thus I think that this is probably a smart move although a bit late...
Before McCafes McDonalds had a stake in Pret iirc
Think you're right about Coca Cola re Starbucks, though perhaps they've stalled because their business has typically revolved around logistics / volume rather than brick and mortars...?
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#9Coca Cola...does it sell that colored water with sugar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands
Gotta love them as a company, if people start buying pet rocks, they'll invest in them. Always moving with the times
Re: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
#10Cost has the worst coffee.