But no, now this post is about how the $5 footlong is merely a pipe dream to trick innocents into emptying their wallet on some crazy-expensive non-$5 footlong. Yes, this happened to me today. At least in my head, I saw a commercial where Subway announced all of their footlongs were now $5. Apparently, this never actually took place.
I ordered a footlong, reasoning it was worth the extra 60 cents to upgrade from the $4.40 6-inch. The sandwich artist unsuccessfully tried to upsell me on double meat, which I found a mite greedy in light of my footlong purchase. Everything went smoothly until I went to pay and was rung up for $9 including my drink.
"Really?" I asked. "Nine dollars?"
"Ha ha, yes, that is not one of the five dollar sandwiches -- only the chicken breast," the clerk said, laughing (I'm not exaggerating here; she was really laughing).
Defeated, I handed her a 10 and silently cursed Subway's overly catchy jingle for tricking and robbing me.
Adding insult to injury, the clerk (or maybe the sandwich artist -- I'm not clear on who actually wraps the thing) failed to give me or my fellow Subway patron Justin a Scrabble game piece for the sandwich. Sadly, playing the Scrabble game was the only reason I wanted to go to Subway in the first place. I suppose this is what I get for transgressing the covenant of the sandwich gods by eating Subway in Deli Mecca.
4 comments:
Oh it was great to see the little lady laugh at you. It was almost worth the four mo' dollahs to see the frustration and the blog post that followed.
It is a great jingle - I'm such the consumer - 1. the jingle makes me want to come back(forever) and 2. the newly added scrabble thing is a great marketing move for Subway (and addictive)! They sure got some smart marketing pushers now down at Subway HQ.
I agree about hating the up sell - i wish for every up sell i could just say - no thanks and leave. But that would be unfair for the artist. you mustn't hurt the feelings of your local subway artist if you want a quality sandwich ever again. You will break their spirits and what is a good sandwich without the soul poured in from the artists.
Not getting a extra playing piece was made up by finding someones discarded unrevealed piece.
Good post!
Did you call the Police?
Justin - I'm not sold on Scrabble yet, especially after the missing pieces. I liked Monopoly where McDonald's gave you an actual game board to fill up. But yeah, you did find that piece ...
Madness - I can't believe I didn't think of that. That's definitely the way to handle situations like this.
The Scrabble game isn't in England. I feel robbed.
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