Items in rec.food.cooking

Subject:Re: Subway Never Has Any FOOD
Date:Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:40:50 +1100
From:"John Sefton" <js64@removethis.ihug.com.au>
Newsgroups:alt.consumers.experiences,alt.food.fast-food,rec.food.cooking

"Scott en Aztlán" <slothkills@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> On 2 Dec 2004 19:02:15 -0800, webgroup999@yahoo.com (grpman) wrote:
>
> >Rant for the day:
> >
> >I'm done with Subway.  It's a waste of time going there.  Why is it
> >that I can go into Walmart (which has a million different products)
> >and I can have a 99% chance of finding the item on the shelf, yet I go
> >into Subway (which has only ONE product - food) and there is only a
> >25% chance that they have it?
> >
> >Almost every time I go into Subway, I always get "we don't have that
> >bread", "we have no cookies", etc.  Instead of asking the customer
> >"what do you want", they might as well say "here is what you are
> >getting".  Why even open the doors.. why go into business?  For a big
> >chain, you think they would have solved this small problem of "having
> >no product to sell".

I find the same thing, and I'm in Australia - obviously this franchising
operation is run the same way world wide. I particularly love the following
exchange:

Subway Person: What bread would you like?
Me: What are the choices?
SP: This is them in this glass case.
Me: (considering) Uuuuuuum, I'll have the Parmesan and Oregano bread
SP: We're out of that
Me: What have you got?
SP: White

> You must be going to the Subway on Fortuna Road in Yuma, AZ. I don't
> understand how that place stays in business; it's always out of
> SOMETHING. So now I go to Quizno's.

We don't have that choice - Quizno's doesn't have a lot of outlets here yet.