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Costa Coffee

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Hurrydash · 02/08/2023 00:49

To never want to go to Costa again since they released their controversial new advertising cartoon character?

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WhiskersPete · 03/08/2023 23:42

GasPanic · 03/08/2023 12:35

Just by the nespresso pods and a machine.

It tastes the same and you'll save a fortune.

I'm not sure turning to Nestle products is an ethical way out of it!

QueenBitch666 · 03/08/2023 21:53

TheKeatingFive · 02/08/2023 10:29

I'd boycott them, but I never go there in the first place 😂

Same here! Shite coffee!

mrlistersgelfbride · 03/08/2023 15:09

I don't get it. How is this helping their image at all? I think it's in poor taste. Hope someone got sacked for that as it's not a good move.
It's Caffe Nero for me now, always preferred their stuff anyway.

GasPanic · 03/08/2023 12:35

Just by the nespresso pods and a machine.

It tastes the same and you'll save a fortune.

Gateappreciation · 03/08/2023 12:33

Yellowdays · 03/08/2023 10:45

All these companies-they're only interested in finding new markets.

At the expense of old markets!

When I go to any retail park, you can almost guarantee seeing mums with pushchairs and prams in coffee shops. Can’t say I’ve ever seen the same number of trans people in them.

Yellowdays · 03/08/2023 10:45

All these companies-they're only interested in finding new markets.

Ponoka7 · 03/08/2023 08:24

SirSmellyJohn · 03/08/2023 01:22

YANBU. I don't want to see tits of any kind when I'm drinking my coffee. When will all this nonsense stop?

So you agree with Costa that breastfeeding should be done in the toilet? You won't see this advert, it's on the side of some vans, just for pride.
I don't like it because knowing a trans man who has opted to have his breasts removed, the surgery, recovery and as said, scarring, isn't as depicted, this trivialises it and I doubt many trans men do take their tops off in public and the most I've read about only rarely do at home.
Should post op trans men never be depicted? That's a different debate. The term woke has been weaponised and those using it as an insult, or to shut down one side, need to read up on its origins.

ADHDDDDDDDBOOM · 03/08/2023 07:05

nationallampoons · 02/08/2023 01:51

I work for Costa and it's been going downhill since coke took over.

YES! The utterly ruined the milk alternatives.

Their soya milk is fucking grim.

I used to go there regularly and now we never go in.

Thankfully a Starbucks has opened up so I get my coffee there now.

jeaux90 · 03/08/2023 06:46

It's a disgrace. I mean I don't remember the last time they did a "body positivity" campaign about old people or disabled communities.

If it's a choice between dying or a double mastectomy I doubt most women see it as such either.

Cafe Nero it is then!

PatChaunceysFruitCake · 03/08/2023 06:43

Thank you for the link @Market1. I'm so sorry for everything you have been through Flowers

My friend's wife had a double mastectomy and she doesn't have two little near scars like the ad. She was butchered. It saved her life but how anyone can glorify that is beyond me.

The staff in my local Costa are lovely and were very kind to me and toddler DD when I dropped my drink when I was heavily pregnant and a male customer shouted at me but I don't buy from them again.

Lougle · 03/08/2023 06:34

In one sense I can see the problem but honestly, if someone hadn't pointed it out I wouldn't have given a second thought to the picture. I certainly wouldn't have thought 'Oh that's a transman'.

northstars · 03/08/2023 05:55

Have complained using the link above as well! Thank you @Market1

Chikoletta · 03/08/2023 04:40

Boycott in our house now too, DP on board

DreamTheMoors · 03/08/2023 03:22

Glenthebattleostrich · 02/08/2023 11:14

I'm boycotting and hoping they become the bud light of the coffee world.

What did Bud Lite do to you?

caringcarer · 03/08/2023 02:23

I'm boycotting them.

SirSmellyJohn · 03/08/2023 01:22

YANBU. I don't want to see tits of any kind when I'm drinking my coffee. When will all this nonsense stop?

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Hurrydash · 03/08/2023 00:27

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Please read this🤞

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sandalsinthebin · 02/08/2023 19:48

Market1 · 02/08/2023 11:29

Please please please complain, I can't begin to describe how distressing and intrusive this is

I have had a double mastectomy, my daughters and nieces are currently awaiting genetic test results to see if they need a double mastectomy too. My daughter cried inconsolably when she saw this - she knows how much pain and disability this operation has caused me and might yet cause her.

And we are confronted by this sick horrific image turning our fear, pain and disability into some sort of idealised fantasy!

Here is the link to the page for complaints, please support us by demanding this is withdrawn and we get a full apology.

Thank you so much

https://contactus.costa.co.uk/home/

Complaint opened

HelenaTranscart · 02/08/2023 19:30

Never setting foot in Costa again, they clearly HATE women. Use your economic power!

nationallampoons · 02/08/2023 12:49

@Gateappreciation most of us didn't know anything about this, Costa express is completely different to the cafes.

You'll more than likely see these in shops, and service stops.

Staff are more concerned with our hours being slashed to bare minimum and having to do 12 hour shifts with 4 staff instead of 8.

Cola had ruined Costa, the ingredients are now cheap rubbish and the food is all smaller but the costs have risen a lot

nationallampoons · 02/08/2023 12:46

@askmenow whitbread have nothing to do with costa

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 02/08/2023 12:46

electriclight · 02/08/2023 11:16

Trans men exist in the world. I myself don't have a problem with them being represented in marketing.

Me too

I do however have a problem with mutilation of healthy body parts being celebrated and used for advertising

MomentOnTheLips · 02/08/2023 12:30

Hoppinggreen · 02/08/2023 12:26

Our closest one is a filthy shithole staffed by slightly effeminate nasty young men who look down their perfectly made up noses at you if you dare to ask for a coffee anyway but this is another good reason not to go

The manbun mafia. 😂

Hoppinggreen · 02/08/2023 12:26

Our closest one is a filthy shithole staffed by slightly effeminate nasty young men who look down their perfectly made up noses at you if you dare to ask for a coffee anyway but this is another good reason not to go

WhiskersPete · 02/08/2023 12:14

Although if I'd known that Coca Cola now own it I would have done that a long time ago.