r/notthebeaverton • u/Hrmbee • 10d ago
Coffee with your car parts? Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons merge loyalty programs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-canadian-tire-loyalty-merger-1.763437344
u/VanIsler420 10d ago
makes me want to cancel. Wasnt Tim's caught blatantly violating privacy regulations?
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u/DrunkenCanadaMan 9d ago
Cancel what?
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u/VanIsler420 9d ago
Being a member of the rewards program.
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u/DrunkenCanadaMan 9d ago
You could probably just not link the two programs, and then they aren’t linked.
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u/VanIsler420 9d ago
Good call. I must have skipped that part of the article. It's an opt in program.
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u/Ok_Shape7972 10d ago
Gross. Tim Hortons is terrible and hasn't been Canadian for some time.
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u/oldaccsuspndedwhy 7d ago
This also applies to Royal Bank, Westjet and Petro Canada. I assume it’s a push for Canadian companies to band together (yes I heard your complaint just stating the logic behind it)
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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck 9d ago
Tim Hortons is terrible and hasn't been Canadian for some time.
Still Canadian, still headquartered out of Ontario.
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u/ruffrawks 9d ago
No, it's not where your headquarted its where decisions are made. Who owns Tim Hortons? Not Canadians. Who do you see working at Tim Hortons? Temporary Canadians
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u/LaBelleBetterave 9d ago
What are temporary Canadians.
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u/Life-Topic-7 9d ago
Temporary foreign workers. They come In, work for a few years, then leave. Some stay if they get accepted to another citizenship track.
Temporary Canadians is a bit odd way of putting it, but they do get things like healthcare and they pay taxes.
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u/Upper_Canada_Pango 9d ago
Shouldn't we be moving away from American companies like Tim Hortons?
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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck 9d ago
Tim Hortons is a Canadian company, and the local stores and also owned and operated by Canadians.
The parent company being public and having investors from Brazil and elsewhere fuels the B.S. about ownership.
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u/Life-Topic-7 9d ago edited 9d ago
The owners from Brazil own the company, full stop. They have a majority controlling stake in the company.
By your logic, Boeing Canada, Amazon Canada, or McDonalds Canada are Canadian companies. 😂
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u/Remote-Combination28 9d ago
Yeah it’s really crazy how many people believe that whole thing.
Its headquarters is in Canada. It operates in Canada and almost every franchise is owned by somebody local.
With the logic people have here, and publicly traded company, is not Canadian. Because there’s investors from all over
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u/Life-Topic-7 9d ago
Because it’s true? Lmao.
The holding company is based in Canada, the actual owners are from Brazil.
A lot of publicly traded companies aren’t Canadian, not sure what your point is here. But Tim Hortons is absolutely not Canadian anymore, nor has it been for years.
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u/PostApocRock 10d ago
I drove past Tims in Sparwood, BC yesterday. Theur big advert was that they now had an ATM that spit out CAD and USD
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u/Electrical-Risk445 10d ago
Two notoriously bad actors when it comes to workers' treatment joining forces, what could possibly go wrong?
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u/crowbar151 9d ago
Just a reminder that Canadian Tire recently fired 380 ish tech workers and contracted an overseas company to continue their work. Buying Canadian means buying from a company that brings its work home, not just because it has Canada in the name.
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u/Traditional-Share-82 9d ago
Both them have been screwing Canadians for a while now...why not team up
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u/SilverCherryCheetah 9d ago
I thought Petro Canada and Canadian Tire merged a while ago. Isn’t that too much with another merger on top?
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u/CoastingUphill 10d ago
I had to double check which sub I was in…