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You can guess what the focal point(s) of this rant is going to be...Subway has money to waste, so they started that stupid $5 footlong deal again.
I hate that damned deal - it makes the store(s) lose money because people buy the most expensive subs otherwise and not buy chips or a drink. We're supposed to make up the lost money with them buying chips and a drink, except that most people (Especially not college students) don't do that. They just get the most expensive-to-produce subs like the Chicken Teriyaki or the Chicken Bacon Ranch and leave, or put $10 worth of veggies on and $5 worth of mayonnaise/ranch. So yay, thanks.
Not to mention, the $5 footlongs brings out the stupidest people on campus and in town. In addition to this, it also brings out the Coupon Whores.
Only ONE Coupon per order is allowed, for one. This is to close loopholes so we don't get people like the depression-era seniors my mom and grandma dealt with. They do all their shoppings and then give an entire stack of coupons, with expired coupons hidden in the stack so that the person wouldn't notice. When it finishes, the grocery store either gives $50-100+ worth of stuff away for dirt-cheap if not free and the people behind them are frustrated as hell because it takes forever to enter them.
This also applies at Subway.
Dude comes in and uses a coupon that's a BOGO with a medium drink, and wonders why it still costs money. okay for starters, you got a meatball, which is a five dollar footlong by DEFAULT (I don't have to adjust its price, for example) and a Club, which is NOT. It says on the coupon "Does not stack with other deals" And this includes the "All regular subs are $5". He complains that I overcharged him and the manager comes over and re-enters it...and essentially gives him free footlongs because he complained loud enough. Yay...You just know he's going to go raise hell in some other place because he knows how to manipulate people.
No, we don't take coupons in French. No, we don't take coupons that are in Spanish, either. This is not Quebec, nor is it Mexico/Miami/Texas/New Mexico/Puerto Rico.
Dude comes in with a coupon that has "FREE SUB" in huge red letters and in tiny black letters, mentions that he has to buy a fresh value meal with it to get the free sub. I actually take the time to read the coupon, and inform him that in order for the deal to work, he has to buy a fresh value meal. Not keen onp arting with a whopping two dollars he raises a fit and then the manager comes over. This time she says he has to get a fresh value meal for the coupon to work instead of caving and giving him free food, and the guy quiets down...after saying "You should write your coupons better". I can understand misreading the coupon because they write the letters small, but I only work here - we do not write the coupons. The people in charge of marketing do - that's an issue you should be talking to THEM about.
No, we don't take coupons that expired in 2010.
No, we don't take coupons that expired in 2008, either. I check the expiration date.
No, that coupon isn't one of those Day/Month/Year formats, either - There are 31 months in a year, now? (Sides what coupon expires on the FIFTH of a month?!)
You can only redeem that "Free 6 inch" coupon for participating in a study at the store you got it from. Those don't come from this store!
That coupon doesn't work because it's for a free breakfast sandwich before 10 AM - the time is 2:30 PM. There's a clock right behind me. No, I didn't doctor it because I didn't want to use the coupon...take out your cell phone and check.
No, the "Free Bacon" Coupon only applies if you want extra bacon - it actually says so on the coupon. It doesn't mean you get a free BLT, but I can see where you were going with that. It's not one of those coupons that puts it in near-invisible writing.
Alright, $5 footlong hell:
-The $5 footlong does NOT work on 6-inches.
-It only says regular subs. No I'm not a racist because I'm charging you full price for a Beast Feast - I had to point out it said regular subs and not the premium subs. It is not my fault again - blame the marketing company for using deceptive language or not explaining it, or yourself for not reading the fine print.
-Hey! You can't take that 44 oz drink if you're just going to fill it up with water! You have to pay for that!
-Yes, that's a great idea - try to steal cookies when you dont' have enough by reaching in front of three people's faces to open the cookie drawer from out side. BRILLIANT MOVE.
-The cooler is a pull door. Why on earth would you try to freaking PUSH it?! How many coolers do you know with a push door?
-No we don't have Tacos - there's a Taco Bell upstairs.
-No, we don't have Meat Loaf. We didn't have it the last 40 times you asked. No, we didn't get it in between the time you asked at lunch and when you came in at dinner.
-Yes, we're open.
-We can't toast a salad.
-So lemme get this straight...you want a flatbread, but with no flatbread, and you don't want a salad either?
-We don't rent movies! :O Why on earth would SUBWAY rent movies?! We don't have a REdbox here! I'm afraid I don't know where the redbox on campus is, if we have one. You'd have to go upstairs and ask the people at the information desk.
-PUT THAT CELL PHONE DOWN, dammit!
-XYZ, sir. And put on some underwear.
-Dear walking ghetto stereotype: The idea of wearing your pants at half-mast is to show your boxers...NOT YOUR FREAKING BUTT AND PUBES!!!! Nobody has to see that!!!!
-You fail counterfeiting forever - We don't take bills larger than a $20 anyways, and I hate to break it to you bub...but George Washington is NOT on a $100 bill.
I hate that damned deal - it makes the store(s) lose money because people buy the most expensive subs otherwise and not buy chips or a drink. We're supposed to make up the lost money with them buying chips and a drink, except that most people (Especially not college students) don't do that. They just get the most expensive-to-produce subs like the Chicken Teriyaki or the Chicken Bacon Ranch and leave, or put $10 worth of veggies on and $5 worth of mayonnaise/ranch. So yay, thanks.
Not to mention, the $5 footlongs brings out the stupidest people on campus and in town. In addition to this, it also brings out the Coupon Whores.
Only ONE Coupon per order is allowed, for one. This is to close loopholes so we don't get people like the depression-era seniors my mom and grandma dealt with. They do all their shoppings and then give an entire stack of coupons, with expired coupons hidden in the stack so that the person wouldn't notice. When it finishes, the grocery store either gives $50-100+ worth of stuff away for dirt-cheap if not free and the people behind them are frustrated as hell because it takes forever to enter them.
This also applies at Subway.
Dude comes in and uses a coupon that's a BOGO with a medium drink, and wonders why it still costs money. okay for starters, you got a meatball, which is a five dollar footlong by DEFAULT (I don't have to adjust its price, for example) and a Club, which is NOT. It says on the coupon "Does not stack with other deals" And this includes the "All regular subs are $5". He complains that I overcharged him and the manager comes over and re-enters it...and essentially gives him free footlongs because he complained loud enough. Yay...You just know he's going to go raise hell in some other place because he knows how to manipulate people.
No, we don't take coupons in French. No, we don't take coupons that are in Spanish, either. This is not Quebec, nor is it Mexico/Miami/Texas/New Mexico/Puerto Rico.
Dude comes in with a coupon that has "FREE SUB" in huge red letters and in tiny black letters, mentions that he has to buy a fresh value meal with it to get the free sub. I actually take the time to read the coupon, and inform him that in order for the deal to work, he has to buy a fresh value meal. Not keen onp arting with a whopping two dollars he raises a fit and then the manager comes over. This time she says he has to get a fresh value meal for the coupon to work instead of caving and giving him free food, and the guy quiets down...after saying "You should write your coupons better". I can understand misreading the coupon because they write the letters small, but I only work here - we do not write the coupons. The people in charge of marketing do - that's an issue you should be talking to THEM about.
No, we don't take coupons that expired in 2010.
No, we don't take coupons that expired in 2008, either. I check the expiration date.
No, that coupon isn't one of those Day/Month/Year formats, either - There are 31 months in a year, now? (Sides what coupon expires on the FIFTH of a month?!)
You can only redeem that "Free 6 inch" coupon for participating in a study at the store you got it from. Those don't come from this store!
That coupon doesn't work because it's for a free breakfast sandwich before 10 AM - the time is 2:30 PM. There's a clock right behind me. No, I didn't doctor it because I didn't want to use the coupon...take out your cell phone and check.
No, the "Free Bacon" Coupon only applies if you want extra bacon - it actually says so on the coupon. It doesn't mean you get a free BLT, but I can see where you were going with that. It's not one of those coupons that puts it in near-invisible writing.
Alright, $5 footlong hell:
-The $5 footlong does NOT work on 6-inches.
-It only says regular subs. No I'm not a racist because I'm charging you full price for a Beast Feast - I had to point out it said regular subs and not the premium subs. It is not my fault again - blame the marketing company for using deceptive language or not explaining it, or yourself for not reading the fine print.
-Hey! You can't take that 44 oz drink if you're just going to fill it up with water! You have to pay for that!
-Yes, that's a great idea - try to steal cookies when you dont' have enough by reaching in front of three people's faces to open the cookie drawer from out side. BRILLIANT MOVE.
-The cooler is a pull door. Why on earth would you try to freaking PUSH it?! How many coolers do you know with a push door?
-No we don't have Tacos - there's a Taco Bell upstairs.
-No, we don't have Meat Loaf. We didn't have it the last 40 times you asked. No, we didn't get it in between the time you asked at lunch and when you came in at dinner.
-Yes, we're open.
-We can't toast a salad.
-So lemme get this straight...you want a flatbread, but with no flatbread, and you don't want a salad either?
-We don't rent movies! :O Why on earth would SUBWAY rent movies?! We don't have a REdbox here! I'm afraid I don't know where the redbox on campus is, if we have one. You'd have to go upstairs and ask the people at the information desk.
-PUT THAT CELL PHONE DOWN, dammit!
-XYZ, sir. And put on some underwear.
-Dear walking ghetto stereotype: The idea of wearing your pants at half-mast is to show your boxers...NOT YOUR FREAKING BUTT AND PUBES!!!! Nobody has to see that!!!!
-You fail counterfeiting forever - We don't take bills larger than a $20 anyways, and I hate to break it to you bub...but George Washington is NOT on a $100 bill.
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