{"id":382,"date":"2009-11-05T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-11-05T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:22:32","slug":"costa-or-starbucks-an-example-of-a-pr-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/costa-or-starbucks-an-example-of-a-pr-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa or Starbucks? An example of a PR backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d almost feel sorry for Starbucks if it wasn’t for the fact that whilst they certainly do produce a vast amount of mediocre coffee they are a massive pain in the butt that has driven the quality of coffee in London to the floor and beyond…. here in Melbourne the vast selection of independent coffee shops results in some of the best java in the world… I’m not saying that Costa are any better, they’re just smaller, and yes I do prefer their coffee, and their stores and frankly – their brand.<\/p>\n

So why is Starbucks making this complaint a PR disaster? If upheld it’ll show that the big SB has something to worry about – to be specific it shows that whilst they’re niggling over the small print of an advertising campaign they seem to have forgotten about the customer. Fight back, take Costa, improve your coffee, change your stores put a little of the zest that you seem to have in buckets with your off-brand stores<\/a> and run your own survey. Simples.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Coffee chain may count cost of advertising claim<\/strong><\/font><\/a>
Dominic Walsh
The Times
05 Nov 2009
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Costa, the coffee shop chain owned by Whitbread, could find itself in hot water over its claim in its advertising campaign that \u201c7 out of 10 coffee lovers prefer Costa\u201d. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is understood to have concluded in a…read more…<\/em><\/a>
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\u00a9 Copyright 2009 Times Newspapers Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d almost feel sorry for Starbucks if it wasn’t for the fact that whilst they certainly do produce a vast amount of mediocre coffee they are a massive pain in the butt that has driven the quality of coffee in London to the floor and beyond…. here in Melbourne the vast selection of independent coffee … Continue reading “Costa or Starbucks? An example of a PR backfire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}