Tim Hortons closes locations in Maine, Central New York

[retailisking]

All ten remaining Maine locations south of Waterville have gotten the axe - both locations in South Portland (Mill Creek was a Tims/Wendy's combination restaurant) as well as Augusta, Auburn (two stores), Lewiston, Norway, Topsham, Biddeford and Scarborough. Tims aburptly pulled out of the Syracuse, New York market today as well:
http://www.syracuse.com/storefront/index.ssf/2015/11/tim_hortons_closures.html

[ynkeesfn82]

They plan on rethinking their US strategy and will eventually open 300 new US stores.

http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/2015/11/18/tim-hortons-closes-two-maine-locations/75970490/

[retailisking]

They plan on rethinking their US strategy and will eventually open 300 new US stores.

http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/2015/11/18/tim-hortons-closes-two-maine-locations/75970490/

Good luck with that! They've gotten their butts handed to them in New England. Maybe they will continue to expand in the Midwest where they seem to have gotten some traction. They're in the process of expanding into the St. Louis market.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

I hope they open one in Green Bay someday.

[BillyGr]

They plan on rethinking their US strategy and will eventually open 300 new US stores.

http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/2015/11/18/tim-hortons-closes-two-maine-locations/75970490/

Good luck with that! They've gotten their butts handed to them in New England. Maybe they will continue to expand in the Midwest where they seem to have gotten some traction. They're in the process of expanding into the St. Louis market.

Perhaps some of the farther west (but still closer to their Canadian base) locations will work better, particularly as one gets to areas that have less (or perhaps no) Dunkin Donuts in existence.  That may have been the issue in New England as DD has been there for a lengthy time and often has many stores in an area.
Kind of like the issues KK had in these same areas trying to operate with only a few locations.

[store215]

I don't even understand why they would have tried to open in Dunkin' territory.....maybe they should try the West Coast where Dunkin' has very little presence.

[retailisking]

I don't even understand why they would have tried to open in Dunkin' territory.....maybe they should try the West Coast where Dunkin' has very little presence.

They do well in territories that border Canada. Maybe that convinced them that they would do well in Southern Maine, Central New York and even Southern New England. That obviously didn't happen. However, they're currently making a big push into the St. Louis market, so maybe there's something to be said for opening locations in territories that DD doesn't have a heavy presence in.

[Hudsons81]

I don't even understand why they would have tried to open in Dunkin' territory.....maybe they should try the West Coast where Dunkin' has very little presence.

They should at least try to expand into the Seattle market first-it's pretty close to Canada. There will be a problem with this though...

[Zayre88]

I don't even understand why they would have tried to open in Dunkin' territory.....maybe they should try the West Coast where Dunkin' has very little presence.

They do well in territories that border Canada. Maybe that convinced them that they would do well in Southern Maine, Central New York and even Southern New England. That obviously didn't happen. However, they're currently making a big push into the St. Louis market, so maybe there's something to be said for opening locations in territories that DD doesn't have a heavy presence in.

True, and you look at the Maine locations they kept open and they're all in eastern and northern Maine.

Travelling often there it appeared that the southern Maine stores were doing okay.  I was expecting a push to NH someday. 

DD is everywhere and Starbucks and McCafe were certainly hurting Tim Hortons...

[danfifepsu]

I don't even understand why they would have tried to open in Dunkin' territory.....maybe they should try the West Coast where Dunkin' has very little presence.

They do well in territories that border Canada. Maybe that convinced them that they would do well in Southern Maine, Central New York and even Southern New England. That obviously didn't happen. However, they're currently making a big push into the St. Louis market, so maybe there's something to be said for opening locations in territories that DD doesn't have a heavy presence in.

True, and you look at the Maine locations they kept open and they're all in eastern and northern Maine.

Travelling often there it appeared that the southern Maine stores were doing okay.  I was expecting a push to NH someday. 

DD is everywhere and Starbucks and McCafe were certainly hurting Tim Hortons...

where are they in maine now?

[retailisking]

where are they in maine now?

Their locations from Waterville north remain open.

[danfifepsu]

where are they in maine now?

Their locations from Waterville north remain open.

the ones around Portland and Biddeford where there last summer when I went to them.

[BillyGr]

the ones around Portland and Biddeford where there last summer when I went to them.

Looks like those were part of the closings in the first post which was in November of 2015, so after you were there but not by a lot.

[JimSawhill]

Tim Horton's bought Bess Eaton, I wonder what happened to the Vernon Bess Eaton/Tim Horton location.