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Coffee - Hockey fans choose......?????
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papulaisle
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Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so. 
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Have a beef on Timmy. I was in southern Ontario this summer. U S dollar was at a premium to Canadian dollar. Timmy charged me for US funds five percent! In all it was a 13% swing as I recall when it should have been money back to me. Yikes! I made a fuss but discount was encoded in the cash register from the home office, it appeared. Soooo busy (Gananoque.) Then I got the 'sob' stories from all the gang in line how Canadians can't even spend their (Canadian) money in the states! U S merchants won' t take it at any price. No more border reciprocity? How about Holidays?
Best coffee ad is the little girl for Caribou!
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Have a beef on Timmy. I was in southern Ontario this summer. U S dollar was at a premium to Canadian dollar. Timmy charged me for US funds five percent! In all it was a 13% swing as I recall when it should have been money back to me. Yikes! I made a fuss but discount was encoded in the cash register from the home office, it appeared. Soooo busy (Gananoque.) Then I got the 'sob' stories from all the gang in line how Canadians can't even spend their (Canadian) money in the states! U S merchants won' t take it at any price. No more border reciprocity? How about Holidays?
Best coffee ad is the little girl for Caribou!
OnMAA
Vort Doen.....Heija Heija Heija
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
If you use a timmy card you get the straight exchange. I use mine on both sides of the border. I live near a cross border town were there are always at par deals to be had. You just gotta look for the right places.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
If you use a timmy card you get the straight exchange. I use mine on both sides of the border. I live near a cross border town were there are always at par deals to be had. You just gotta look for the right places.
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Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Actually, it's true...usually you can't use Canadian money at all in the States, even near the border.
At least Timmy's offers the option, though charging a big premium for the convenience. The same is true for Timmy's in the US. This past weekend, I was at one in NY State. Noticed the exchange discount was 20% for the Canadian dollar....despite the fact the Canadian dollar closed on Friday higher than the US buck.
So sad to hear the New England stores are closing.
While we are on the subject, has anyone else noticed that the Timmy's lids in the US are SOOO much better than the Canadian ones. Either the Canadian supplier has changed in the last year, or they have cheapened the product, because now when you tear back the lip, it doesn't stick on the tab properly anymore. They suck. The American lids are still perfect....tempted to bring back a few every time I go down to the States to replace the substandard ones back home.
Maybe we should all send letters to head office asking that they change to the US lid supplier/specs.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Actually, it's true...usually you can't use Canadian money at all in the States, even near the border.
At least Timmy's offers the option, though charging a big premium for the convenience. The same is true for Timmy's in the US. This past weekend, I was at one in NY State. Noticed the exchange discount was 20% for the Canadian dollar....despite the fact the Canadian dollar closed on Friday higher than the US buck.
So sad to hear the New England stores are closing.
While we are on the subject, has anyone else noticed that the Timmy's lids in the US are SOOO much better than the Canadian ones. Either the Canadian supplier has changed in the last year, or they have cheapened the product, because now when you tear back the lip, it doesn't stick on the tab properly anymore. They suck. The American lids are still perfect....tempted to bring back a few every time I go down to the States to replace the substandard ones back home.
Maybe we should all send letters to head office asking that they change to the US lid supplier/specs.
OnMAA
Vort Doen.....Heija Heija Heija
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
As I said before, use your Canuck timmy card at the US timmy locations. You get the straight exchange rate, better than the x-change rate you get on a Canuck based credit card.
Secondly, as a person that spends a lot of time in a border town, plenty of Canuck at par deals on the US side. I tank up at the border on the US side, everytime I head down for a trip and on the way back. Many places take CDN dollars at par, cash only. Saves me $10 bucks a tank everytime.
They are closed already. Stopped over at one last weekend, and the closed sign already up. The week before the place was still open.
Wanna put a lid on that discussion. Belongs in the American-Canadian Thread.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
As I said before, use your Canuck timmy card at the US timmy locations. You get the straight exchange rate, better than the x-change rate you get on a Canuck based credit card.
Secondly, as a person that spends a lot of time in a border town, plenty of Canuck at par deals on the US side. I tank up at the border on the US side, everytime I head down for a trip and on the way back. Many places take CDN dollars at par, cash only. Saves me $10 bucks a tank everytime.
They are closed already. Stopped over at one last weekend, and the closed sign already up. The week before the place was still open.
Wanna put a lid on that discussion. Belongs in the American-Canadian Thread.
IceIsNice
Huh? Whoopie Pies? WHERE???
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
Re: Timmy Closures - Say it Ain't so.
I respectfully disagree. If the conversation is about coffee, it belongs here. If it's about whoopie pies, it belongs in the Whoopie Pie thread. The American-Canadian thread is a catch all for all other nonsensical differences between us normal people in the states, and our whacked out friends to the North.Wanna put a lid on that discussion. Belongs in the American-Canadian Thread.
egon_getts
Registered User
Re: Coffee - Hockey fans choose......?????
As a Minnesotan, I've gotta' rep Caribou as well!
As a Minnesotan, I've gotta' rep Caribou as well!