Thursday, March 27, 2008

BOYCOTTING TIM HORTONS

Tim Horton's has good food and drink. I like it there and used to go there often. After today I don't think I will be making the trek back to Tim Hortons. Its not the long line ups that has be straying away, its everything else about it! First of all we live in 2008 why has Tim's not gotten with the times and gotten debit. That is my first problem with them. Mastercard or cash those are your options for payment at Tim's. Why?? If you have a mastercard machine then surely all other forms of payment should be acceptable. Who carries cash these days and this discriminates against those who don't have a mastercard or cash! How can one just get a cup of coffee if all they have is debit with a few dollars on it. I understand this because being a student sometimes this happens, you have no mastercard but you have 10 dollars on your debit card. Not enough money to take out of the machine but enough to buy a coffee with your debit card...at any other establishment besides Tim's. The other problem I have (which happened this morning) was my husband and I had a mastercard and were very much willing to use it to get breakfast at Tim's. We ordered our food only to find out that as we were using our mastercard, the machine was down. All of a sudden the lady at cash cancelled our order! WTF?
So we were following Tim's rules and yet we were still shafted. We had a mastercard, we were going to use it and yet we still had to get breakfast from somewhere else. Now I understand that Tim's cannot give free food away all the time, but considering the fact they had made our food and drinks and then to cancel it was very frustrating. There was no dealing with the situation, it was pure and simple our machine is down you have no cash, ordered cancelled.
I wouldn't normally vent about something like this if something like this did not happen everytime I went to Tim's. You have to understand I go there like once every two or three months and every single time a problem occurs and I either leave with no food, or it was a fight to get it or some other problem and everytime I say I am never going to go again and somehow I end up there again at a later day.
This is the last straw, I am officially boycotting Tim's. Get with the century and get debit and maybe I will visit again.

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