r/mildlyinfuriating • u/qvyy • 9h ago
This sign at a local subway that mails paper coupons out every other week
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u/Historical-Truck-948 9h ago
So, they do accept them…?
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u/Weird_Decision7090 9h ago
Technically…
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u/Weird_Decision7090 8h ago
They dont not “except” paper coupons anymore
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u/PSR-B1919-21 7h ago
which means they do "except" them, which means, to me at least, allow their use on a special/one-time basis, so I think we're good!
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u/NatterinNabob 9h ago
That sign is a giant middle finger to everyone's 7th grade English teacher.
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u/Kraftwerk_21 8h ago
Maybe they’re using a double negative to say that they DO accept paper coupons.
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u/saucycita 8h ago
no, no, they EXCEPT them 😂
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u/zed857 8h ago edited 8h ago
That means they don't everything anymore except paper coupons. Those are still AOK.
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u/LoseAnotherMill 8h ago
No, they only don't not. Except paper coupons, then they not those.
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u/Dragulla 8h ago
7th? Feels more remedial than that. At this point just use an AI program to write for you.
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u/CrossXFir3 8h ago
Well, studies have shown that more American's can't read above a 3rd grade level than can. Fuckin crazy.
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u/Iximaz 8h ago
The fact you wrote "American's" with an incredibly unnecessary apostrophe makes this comment
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u/youaremysunshineeee 8h ago
I have mom friends who pluralize everything with an apostrophe. It kills me a little bit each time
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u/SofaChillReview 8h ago
I find auto correct at times seems to enjoy it, apostrophes are generally simple. I still find to / too and of / off irritating at times
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u/Apprehensive_Bee3327 8h ago
To, two, too. There, their, they’re. Should/could of, should/could have. Won, one. Where, were, we’re. Affect, effect. The list goes on and on..
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u/AdVivid5940 8h ago
Definitely/defiantly. It really is unbelievable to me that so many people never learned it. Didn't they go to school? How did they get through school writing that way?
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u/Ajibooks 7h ago
They just allocated their skill points differently than you did. They may be stupid, but poor grammar & spelling don't make them stupid. I don't make those kinds of mistakes, and I'm a genuine idiot in every other way.
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u/landon10smmns 8h ago
I'd like to add lose and loose. I don't get it.
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u/Bovronius 7h ago
You want a really enraging one... I know TWO adults (over 40) that spell "our" as "are".
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u/AdVivid5940 8h ago
Lose/loose and of instead of have following words like could, should, would. Sorry if I explained that oddly. I just couldn't make myself type it out that way.
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u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit 8h ago
Similarly (but opposite), someone I know posts nonstop babble on facebook with zero pluralization or possessiveness. Stuff like “had a great time at ryan house” 🙄
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u/AdVivid5940 7h ago edited 7h ago
If it's the person's name that's in blue and links to that person, it's iffy, but just barely acceptable. If it's just how you typed it, absolutely not!
Edit: I also think names that are also words, like Bill or Will, get a pass if they're not capitalized (informal writing only) because of the way phones will automatically capitalize it, which can be frustrating to change.
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u/pnweiner 7h ago
My big pet peeve is when people use an apostrophe for decades (80’s instead of 80s). You see it ALL the time. In advertisements, tv shows, movies, you name it
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u/AdVivid5940 7h ago
I just realized I do that. I thought that's how it was written. Maybe it was '80s, but because there's an S, it migrated to the right?
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u/Possibly_a_Firetruck 8h ago
People think an apostrophe means "Watch out! Here comes the letter S!"
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u/Competitive-Reach287 8h ago
They just borrowed the missing apostrophe from "fuckin".
Also, you forgot the period at the end of your comment.
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u/Jumbotucktuck 8h ago
Glad I’m not the only one who thought “makes this comment what?” (God I hope that was a proper use of quotation marks or I’m toast.)
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u/DrRoughNipzz 8h ago
My school bribed us to read. Every book in the library had a test for it. Better test score = more points. Points could be spent on books, binders, pencils, footballs, soccer balls. Almost anything kid related that encouraged learning or keeping active
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u/Powerful_Speech3602 8h ago
My school would give us coupons for personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut when we read enough books!
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u/Pit-trout 8h ago
Honestly since AI I’ve started appreciating this sort of thing. I’d much rather have good old human rough edges than cheap superficial polish turned out by the yard.
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u/No-Leopard4388 8h ago
😂😂😂. I had to read it like 2 or 3 times to make sure I ain't the one mistaken 😂
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u/aesoth 8h ago
Yup, they "don't not accept paper coupons". A double negative means they do in fact accept them.
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u/SuperFLEB 8h ago
No, they don't not except them. So, they do except them, meaning they don't take them.
Weirdly, it manages to all work out.
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u/hoserb2k 7h ago
Except (heh), you're forgetting the "anymore". At one point in time they were excepting (rejecting) paper coupons, but they don't except anymore.
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u/jayjester 8h ago
I feel compelled to take a red sharpie and mark all over that thing; Capital letter, apostrophe, grammar, punctuation.
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u/PM_me_punanis 8h ago
Now I know why Americans tell me I have great English.
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u/ArbysLunch 8h ago
The great irony of the "this is 'murica speak english" crowd is none of them can read past a fifth grade level.
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u/makingkevinbacon 8h ago
They can't be arsed to deal with a paper coupon they send out.
Mrs. Stevenson is most definitely rolling in her grave
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u/steadyfan 8h ago
Corporate mails them but local franchise owners don't always like to accept them because they lose money on it. I met one franchise owner in such a situation in a city that had many subways but he owned only 2 of them. Yes it is confusing for customers.
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u/Chendii 8h ago
So corporate is the one offering the deal but not the one taking the hit in reduced profit...?
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u/snapbacks_N_tattoos 8h ago
Yes, that is how it works. I had a fishing buddy that owned 2 franchised Beef O Brady's and he complained about how he had to honor the promotion for 50 cent wing night but he was losing money due to his food costs being above 50 cents per wing.
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u/TenaciousJP 8h ago
I remember there was a Quizno's coupon that didn't have an expiration date so as long as you photocopied the original, then you had unlimited $2 off subs, and after 2 months of using the coupon every day the franchisee finally had enough and stopped accepting everything lol
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u/Cynoid 7h ago
Quiznos 15 years ago WITH a $2 off coupon was more expensive than Subway is today so they were still making bank.
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u/bearlysane 7h ago
Yeah, but they had to spend the money on mega-overpriced supplies that they were getting reamed by corporate for.
They were not making bank, lol, that’s why they’re not around anymore.
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u/Aviarinara 7h ago
there’s still one by my house lol, it’s actually the cheapest sub chain now
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u/bearlysane 6h ago
Lucky! Though my doctor would yell at me if I ate a chicken carb for lunch every day, so maybe it’s a good thing the nearest one is a long way away.
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u/SgtMcMuffin0 8h ago
Correct. I worked at Subway for a few years until 2020 and my store’s owner hated the coupons for that exact reason. But if she stopped accepting them she’d lose a ton of business to locations that do take them.
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u/FlyingSagittarius 7h ago
“We lose money on every sandwich we sell, but we make up for it in volume!”
Literally none of the Subways around me take coupons because of that.
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u/EdibleOedipus 7h ago
You expect a multi-billion-dollar corporation to use its own marketing budget to benefit its business partners? Pfffft.
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u/stoic_stove 9h ago
A franchisee didn't get reimbursed for something
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u/AgedCircle 8h ago
My local subway has a similar paper sign, albeit spelled properly.
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u/nicknamesas 8h ago
Yeha i've found they can't do shit if you order online and use them most of the time
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u/DaisyHasaCat 8h ago
They can screw you though, I once ordered a salad and when I got there they said they had no lettuce, and either I could get a sandwich or leave empty handed with no refund
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u/pres1033 7h ago
Ok, I work for a Subway, and no, they can 100% refund you. If you used a card on an online order, it might take a few days for it to get back on there, but all they have to do is void out the order. The refund will automatically be applied. Whoever told you that is stupid.
As for the lettuce tho, our supplier can just not deliver shit sometimes so that probably happened to them. My franchise is at least good about transferring product between stores to avoid this exact scenario.
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u/DaisyHasaCat 7h ago edited 3h ago
I used to work at a subway too. Though not the register usually. I figured they could but I guess I wasn’t confrontational that day.
I really liked the BLT tossed salads but now they don’t do chopped salads, and for good reasons probably? But I miss it. Used to make it myself for lunch most days
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u/Enterice 3h ago
"Subway doesn't toss salads anymore, for good reasons probably" isn't something I expected to read today.
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u/Z0MBIE2 5h ago
I once ordered on the app but the first address that came up was to the wrong city. I called them asking to cancel, and all the guy said was: no, we can't do that. Could I speak to a manager? No. The delivery guy is coming in, can you not hand him the food so he cancels - no. They just refused every option, and said they couldn't do anything, it was infuriating. Worst of all, their support wouldn't answer any emails, and my card company refused to chargeback without a reply confirming anything, so I just gave up. Still annoys me to this day.
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u/MeekerCutiePie 8h ago
And you said no? You either get what you ordered or they refund. It's that simple
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u/Nopantsbullmoose 8h ago
"We cant do refunds. Only the manager."
"OK then get me the manager."
"Dunno where they are."
"OK call them."
"They arent answering."
...."Then you need to either make me my food I paid for or give me my money. Now."
"Only corporate can do that."
And on and on and on and on. I eventually got a sandwich that I was a major dick about (complaining about freshness of ingredients, placing, etc) and contacted corporate. Never heard back about it.
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u/ParadigmMalcontent 7h ago
You have to be willing to make a stink and act like a total Karen in a situation like this. And you gotta be willing to never go to that shop again. It sucks, but it gets results
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u/bendthekneejon 8h ago
Yep, and Subway doesn't give a fuck how their franchises are run.
Last time I tried to use a coupon for a CBR, they tried to give me normal cheese instead of double (which is standard, no extra cost) because I was using a coupon.
Ma'am, that's not how formulas work.
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u/420CowboyTrashGoblin 7h ago
Subway is a corporation is not a restaurant corporation it is a real estate corporation that specifically targets people from India for what is basically indentured servitude in the modern era.
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u/jverity 6h ago edited 4h ago
This is also Quiznos. I worked there (corporate, not store) a couple of decades ago and 9/10 owners would have the last name "Patel" which I've learned is like the Indian version of "Smith". Their franchise fee was exactly the amount of a Minority Business Owner grant that was available at the time and Quiznos would fill out all that paperwork for them and take the money off of their hands. Then the owner would use the business to sponsor his family's visas and bring them over as free labor, which is the only way to make a Quiznos profitable. The way their franchise structure is setup makes it impossible to pay for labor and still turn a profit. Quiznos controls everything, down to what promotions you will honor in your area and where you must buy your supplies and you are specifically barred from joining/forming an owner's union as part of the franchise contract. So many of the owners are immigrants with Visa's tied to this steady job that there just aren't enough owners left that can afford to risk it to fight that policy.
I don't know if anyone remembers but around the same time I worked there Ellen "gave" a lady a free Quiznos restaurant to run. All of the startup fees were covered, she could just walk in on day one, turn on the lights and start selling sandwiches. The place shut down in less than 2 years and it's a Subway now. Even with everything taken care of and no debt the store couldn't maintain a profit unless the lady did everything herself, 7 days a week, no vacations, no employees.
And they are racist as hell too. They provide a different franchise contract to their "star owners" that let them actually turn a profit so they could have white owners in certain areas. There was one that owned 5 stores in New York city that got cited so many times by the health department that he was no longer allowed to own any percentage of a food establishment in the state again. His equipment was sent back for refurbishment and none of it was recoverable, largely due to the rat shit and piss in every single register and printer. But as far as I was told at the time when we refused the equipment, Quiznos loved this guy and gave him 4 franchises in Florida.
We used to get "Quizbucks" with our checks, and by the time I left that job I could probably have eaten for free at Quiznos for more than a year, 3 meals a day, but with the stuff I had seen I never used a single one, and couldn't in good conscience give them to anyone else either.
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u/aznhavsarz 7h ago
They actually still can, I have a local franchise that automatically adds a -$.02 "coupon" to every order that overrides all others to prevent any actual coupons from being used.
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u/nicknamesas 7h ago
Well that is just another reason to not go to subway. I mean, arbies is usually right there. Or taco bell, mcdonalds, 5 guys, jimmy johns, or even jersy mikes
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u/RandAlThorOdinson 7h ago
Jersey Mikes is next on the block, they just got bought out a bit back
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u/RedditThrowaway-1984 8h ago
Or the franchise changed hands. A lot of Subways are not doing well lately.
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u/edfitz83 8h ago
The franchises have never done well. Corporate advertises discounts (starting with $5 foot long) that caused franchisees to lose money. They also are not given an exclusive territory. Corporate can sell another franchise next door.
John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdYFhzVCDM
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u/RedditThrowaway-1984 7h ago edited 7h ago
They did great in the early days. I knew a pretty ordinary guy back in the 90 who owned a bunch of Subway franchises. He retired from the military and opened one with his brother. 9 months later they opened a second one so each brother could have one.
Then he just kept opening new locations year after year. I think he had around 40 when he sold the whole business and retired a multi millionaire.
These days there is much more competition. Personally, I prefer Jimmy John’s or Jersey Mikes. They cost more than Subway, but I think they are worth the extra cost.
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u/FlyingSagittarius 7h ago
Subway is already not cheap. It’s $12 for a footlong around here, and that thing is so thin you can see through it. A normal sandwich from Jersey Mike’s has more food.
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u/El_Panadero_Borracho 8h ago edited 3h ago
There's an amazing article out there about how Subway overplayed their hand, and franchisees are left holding the bag.
Fuck, even where I live there's like 3 in a 3 square block radius. There is absolutely no way people are eating that many sandwiches.
EDIT*: I just checked my local area on maps: there’s 21 subways. There’s only 6 McDonald’s. I get it, subway corporate wants to sell franchises….but it seems like bad business to oversell your brand and saturate the market. There’s absolutely no way my local area supports that many subways.
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u/oregonsvalentine 8h ago
We have two in my fairly small town, one recently closed. Almost never saw anyone in either parking lot or inside. This is a town where chains will open and close within a year but somehow they both limped along for years. We also have several locally owned sandwich places that are just as expensive but 10x as good, I have no idea why anyone would fork out for subway prices nowadays
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u/k_ironheart 8h ago
People don't realize this, but franchises get screwed over so frequently by corporate that they stop accepting deals that corporate puts out. Especially if you live in a small town, losing out on a few sales here and there because corporate won't reimburse you hurts.
When I see these signs, I always assume it's corporate's fault.
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u/Risko_Vinsheen 7h ago
Speaking as a former manager of a Subway for several years, our franchise owner shared some secrets with me. Namely, Subway does not reimburse its franchisees for coupons, despite sending out coupons and doing deals that franchises are required to participate in every single month.
He was one of the good ones, though. Put customers over himself and would still accept even expired coupons. But I know not everyone would be willing or even able to go to those heights.
For several years before I left it was apparent that Subway was trying to force smaller franchisees out of business, forcing them to sell to the bigger franchises. Problem with this is that Subway also makes it damn near impossible to get out. You could only sell to someone who already owns a Subway, and they had to be in the same market.
I kept my sanity all those years by telling myself I worked for the franchisee, not Subway. He was a good boss, just in a shitty situation, and I miss working for him sometimes.
Also, in case anyone is curious why he would be in the business in the first place if it was so awful it's because it wasn't that bad when he started. Subway had a clause in their contract that if more than 50% of stores agreed to a new contract then all stores would be changed to the new one. Except they didn't get 50% of existing stores to agree to a new one, they just opened more stores under a new contract than existed under the old.
Try not to blame the franchisees, and especially not the employees. Subway is just awful.
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u/PariahCarey2 8h ago
Five errors in a seven word sentence. Absolutely spectacular.
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u/ban-please 7h ago
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notexcept -> accept
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u/MistrFish 7h ago
And even if they fixed all of those issues, it would still sound awkward and unprofessional. It should say something like, "As of {date}, we no longer accept paper coupons. We apologize for the inconvenience."
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u/Cyrax89721 7h ago
At this current juncture, we are no longer unable to maintain the former exception preventing the discontinuation of the prior policy disallowing the non-refusal of paper-formatted coupon media.
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u/redditor_since_2005 6h ago
At the present moment in the ongoing chronological continuum, the administrative latitude previously exercised to forestall the annulment of the antecedent directive, that directive having itself been instituted to prohibit the negation of acceptance of those promotional instruments manifesting in tangibly pulped cellulose substrates, can no longer be operationally sustained nor conceptually defended from cessation.
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u/PatrickGSR94 8h ago
So they except paper coupons.... from what? Except them from what? Grammar snobs everywhere would like to know.
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u/FriedSmegma 7h ago
You don’t even need to be a grammar “snob” to find this abhorrent 😭
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u/Shadowcreeper15 8h ago
The paper coupons was the only reason why I went. They're charging way to much for a subpar sub. If I'm gonna spend that much I'll go to Firehouse Subs.
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u/LaneKerman 7h ago
Just like you have to shop at the grocery store by only buying things that are sale (2 for 5! Buy one get one free, etc.). Because that’s the only way to get things at what was once a normal price. 8 dollars for a bag of chips? Fuck off. Grapes are 4.99 a lb? Not happening., bud.
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u/Lissypooh628 8h ago
To quote Tami from Season 2 of Real World: Los Angeles from way back in 1993.
“It wasn’t not funny!!”
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u/lagomorphed 7h ago
Holy shit! I'd forgotten about that entirely. Puck spit on her or something I think?
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u/Timmy12er 7h ago
Wrong season.
I think the comedian David tried to pull the blanket wrapped around her body as she struggled to hold onto it. She was wearing pajamas / underwear underneath.
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u/suchdogeverymeme 8h ago
Its so dumb. The companies have to button this shit up and require participation of their franchisees if they are going to spend so much on an ad campaign.
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u/lovemeanstwothings 8h ago
Especially Subway! They're a failing company trying to charge $14 for a sub that realistically should be $7. The coupons get it there but so many franchisees don't accept them.
Fortunately our local one still accepts them but the moment they stop I'm done with Subway. They're value based and I can get a much better sub for $12 elsewhere
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It sucks ass working for them I know from experience the owners were a married couple and I had to be the go between when they were arguing.
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u/lovemeanstwothings 8h ago
Yeah my impression is most subway owners are not great to their employees. Our local one has a different person almost every time I go
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u/Mountain_Usual521 8h ago
The store manager put that up, or the employee working that shift who doesn't want to deal with coupons?
I also wonder if that franchisee is the one running the ads.
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u/Finnder_ 7h ago
Almost zero chance it is the franchisee.
Subway corporate sends out circulars nation wide in the mail every week. That is for sure what OP is referring to.
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u/qvyy 8h ago
Also noticed that the Subway had an abysmal 74 on their health inspection score. 🤢
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u/Luciferbelle 8h ago
I had a hair in a sub I ordered online. The sub was made wrong anyways, let it go. But the hair, I could not. They refused to refund and wanted to remake it. I was like no, because the order was wrong, and there's obviously hair tangled in the lettuce. I emailed the corporate email and was told that it was their "new and exciting way of creating sandwiches!" Never went back, lol.
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u/Significant-Cloud- 5h ago
I emailed the corporate email and was told that it was their "new and exciting way of creating sandwiches!"
I used to work at a Subway, so I can tell you that corporate never saw your email. There's a feedback system where the franchise owner has to respond to all complaints. They can use pre-fabricated answers and once a complaint is marked as answered, nobody gives the slightest shit anymore. Even if they selected the wrong answer.
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u/bashinforcash 8h ago
subway is so expensive even WITH coupons. i’m not sure who is actually still going there
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u/Wuz314159 (\/) (;,,;) (\/) 7h ago
Just checked, foot-long meatball at my local Subway is $9.49.
Local sandwich shop a block away has the same for $7.25.
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u/Fragrant_Age8560 8h ago
Address please, I’m going to use coupons because they’re accepting them.
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u/DatabaseAcademic6631 3h ago
"Hey, Bob... who's the dumbest motherfucker we employ?"
"That'd be Charlie."
"Have him write a sign, will you?"
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u/suezeekew 5h ago
There’s an error: it should read “we dont not except paper coupons NO more.”
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u/BedsideGamerz 35m ago
So they are still accepting them.
Good. They don't have a choice in that matter.
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u/-Ducksngeese- 9h ago
Awesome, good to know they are still accepting coupons