Costa has made a big change at its self-serve machines in shops and petrol stations – shoppers will love it

COSTA has made a large alteration astatine its self-service machines successful shops and petrol stations and shoppers volition emotion it.

The UK's biggest java concatenation has announced it is expanding the range of blistery drinks it serves.

Customers volition present person the enactment to marque a blistery beverage astatine 7,000 of the aforesaid determination machines plotted crossed a scope of Tesco, Sainsbury's and Co-op convenience stores arsenic good arsenic different locations.

Costa's standalone branches person ever sold tea, including accepted English meal and a scope of herbal blends.

But this is the archetypal clip its aforesaid work exemplary is branching retired and offering beverages too the likes of a Latte, Cappuccino oregon Americano.

Andrew Miller, explicit and firm income manager at Costa Coffee, said: "Not lone bash our Costa Express machines present high-quality crafted coffees similar Latte, Cappuccino and Americano, but our customers tin present bid beverage from implicit 7,000 Costa Express machines.

"Whether you instrumentality it with milk, a interaction of sugar, oregon similar it brewed conscionable right, Costa Express provides a speedy and convenient mode to bask the cleanable cupful - wherever."

Customers tin find their nearest Costa Express instrumentality by visiting, https://www.costa.co.uk/locations/store-locator/map.

It comes amid a fig of changes for the fashionable brand.

Back successful August, the concatenation shook up its loyalty paper offering.

Members of Costa Club present get 1 "bean" constituent for each portion they bid - and get 2 if they bring successful a reusable cup.

Bean points, are virtual stamps that Costa Coffee Club members gain for each portion they purchase. 

If customers cod 10 beans they tin usage the points for a escaped drink.

Customers tin present usage the caller "Swaps" diagnostic to get other top-ups similar syrups, pick oregon an other changeable of java successful speech for 2 "bean" points.

The marque says this volition let java drinkers to further personalise their blistery drinks.

Costa Club members tin inactive redeem a escaped handcrafted portion successful speech for 10 "beans" in-store, but Swaps offers the added flexibility of utilizing collected beans sooner for delightful extras.

Costa's unthinkable journey

Costa was established successful 1971 and opened its archetypal roastery connected Fenchurch Street, in London.

Their unsocial java blend was invented by Sergio Costa, whose household had moved to England in the 1950s.

Soon, the java became truthful fashionable that the household opened their archetypal store successful 1981.

By 1995, they had 41 stores successful the UK earlier opening shops crossed cardinal and eastbound Europe.

In 2019, the concatenation was acquired by The Coca Cola Company in a woody worthy $4.9 billion.

As of December 2024, they are the 2nd largest coffeehouse concatenation successful the satellite aft Starbucks.