Costa Coffee

Jesus Christ. That's my preferred coffee pods out the window!

I've complained earlier using the link to the feedback form provided up thread.

Email addresses: [email protected]

Costa hasn't belonged to Whitbread for several years. It belongs to Coca-Cola.

We've got 2 near us. One is a lovely place to be, a good team of staff, immaculately clean and they have baby groups meet there regularly. The other one, slightly further away, is GRIM. Absolutely filthy, staff couldn't give a monkeys, flies on the uncovered food. There is no way I'd go in that one to feed. How that one is still going is beyond me.

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Here is the link to the page for complaints, please support us by demanding this is withdrawn and we get a full apology.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

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4862023-costa-using-pride-image-of-girl-with-breasts-removed-to-support-trans?page=11&reply=128100697

what’s the feeling from inside the camp? How are Costa responding to it?

When does this gaslighting of women stop? We don't need to see women with their boobs cut off in an advertising context.
Our children don't need to see this when their brains are still developing and they are insecure in their own bodies.

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

Can't figure out how to link a thread but.
"Have we discussed Costa yet"? is still in FWR

Wouldn't that be just typical of Mumsnet HQ.... heaven forbid they should allow free speech!!!
Butchering women's bodies tho is OK?

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

@askmenow
There were at least 2 threads yesterday, one on AIBU and one on FWR. Neither came up in a search just now though so I wonder if they've been deleted.

I went into the local one to use WiFi. It was one of the filthiest places I have witnessed. It looked like minimal cleaning takes place, eg run a mop over floor but don’t sweep and don’t do corners. It was truly disgusting.

Exactly this, it's always our women and girls that are targeted in order to undermine our solidarity.
I was absolutely shocked when I saw the mutilation on this Costa advert yesterday.
Had this abomination been directed towards any other demographic it would have had a "trigger warning" on it

And then before going to bed, on checking Mumsnet, expected to see an uproar about this......BUT NOTHING!
Have we become so inured at these attacks on women. Do something about this!
Complain and boycott.

1. Phone number: 333 003 5883%E2%80%8B +44 333 003 5883
2. Official Website Contact Form
3. Email addresses: [email protected] and [email protected]
4. Social media accounts:

• Facebook: Search for ‘@costacoffee
• Twitter: Search for ‘@costacoffee

I don't mind a Costa coffee but I can't work out what they are doing here? What a weird way for them to connect with their customers.

Signalling their virtue as a marketing ploy, that’s what.

“Look at how PROGRESSIVE we are. Don’t you want to buy your coffee from a company that shows how kind and liberal we are?”

Aside from the fact that their coffee is beyond awful, using the mutilating surgery of healthy bodies as corporate marketing is just horrendous.

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

Worst coffee on the high street imho too.

I’ve not been into a CC for years, ever since they behaved appallingly to a visiting foreign BF of a dd.

Well no they don't but loads of branding uses people because in marketing it's used to help people visualise themselves doing whatever it is. In this case, enjoying a coffee. If they only show the products it doesn't have the personal element and makes a brand seem a bit cold.

Using people is a basic marketing technique. They should use a diverse range of people, even in cartoon form.
What I don't agree with is they have missed out so many other, much larger groups of people to represent and gone straight for the most 'trendy' category.

But they don't need to do anything to be inclusive bar making coffee and being polite to customers. They aren't ecactly the UN!

I love inclusive messaging and branding but there are so many ways they could have done this without including a cartoon showing a transman with breasts removed.

A woman with c-section scars? A androgynous character? Someone with a visible disability?

I don't mind a Costa coffee but I can't work out what they are doing here? What a weird way for them to connect with their customers.

Maybe they are going to create a range of characters with dysphoria. Anorexic girl hitting their goal weight, maybe? Muscle dysphoric dude popping some steroids? Let's celebrate.

Popped in there recently and had to tip away the coffee - was shocked at how very bad it was.

So they hate breast feeding mothers and are actively glorifying the mutilation of vulnerable young girls. Fucking vile. Will avoid from now on.

It's never sketches of mutilated blokes is it?