Viral photo puts Subway in hot seat

[Villages PL]

A customer posted a photo on facebook of a "footlong" that only measured 11 inches. It seems funny to me because I never would have thought to measure one of them. Anyway, I only go to subway a few times per year and always get the 6 inch sub.

If anything, it should be a little over 12 inches. Many items in a supermarket produce department often weigh more than the weight stated on the package. How much would it cost Subway to make the footlong measure 12.5 inches?

:popcorn:

[DDoug]

I guess length does matter

[Cisco Kid]

I hope no one ever post a photo one my _ _ _ _ :boxing2:

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Seems it's got something to do with how they bake the sub buns - done in-store at each location:

Some Subway sandwiches not measuring up - WTOP.com (http://www.wtop.com/681/3196318/Some-Subway-sandwiches-not-measuring-up)

Bill :)

[Villages PL]

Seems it's got something to do with how they bake the sub buns - done in-store at each location:

Some Subway sandwiches not measuring up - WTOP.com (http://www.wtop.com/681/3196318/Some-Subway-sandwiches-not-measuring-up)

Bill :)

Maybe they need bun-stretchers or bun-extenders?

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Maybe they need bun-stretchers or bun-extenders?

:shocked:

OWIE!!

Bill :)

[Down Sized]

A customer posted a photo on facebook of a "footlong" that only measured 11 inches. It seems funny to me because I never would have thought to measure one of them. Anyway, I only go to subway a few times per year and always get the 6 inch sub.

If anything, it should be a little over 12 inches. Many items in a supermarket produce department often weigh more than the weight stated on the package. How much would it cost Subway to make the footlong measure 12.5 inches?

:popcorn:

Do you think you're getting 6 inches?

[Villages PL]

Do you think you're getting 6 inches?

No, come to think of it, if they cut an 11 inch sub in half, I'd be getting 5.5 inches.

[BAILYBOOHOO]

All they gotta do is push it down . :)

[2BNTV]

Another inch times the number of subs they sell would add up to a lot of money to the corporate bottom line.

My mother and father owned a luncheonnette and my mother complaind she couldn't make a profit on a meatball wedge at 50 cents. She went to say that she needed to make it smaller. My father said he would raise the price a nickel, and not make thm smaller because ciustomers would notice and complain. He then said, "people are not stupid".

Times sure have changed when the same sandwich is now $6,00 approximately.

[buggyone]

One of my co-workers in the Washington DC area had a husband who was a psychologist and he worked for one of the national trade associations. One of his projects was to find the "just noticable difference" in products. This was the amount that a product could be downsized in order to save money for the company and that the customer would not notice the difference and complain about the smaller size. That work kept him very busy and you would not believe how much money a company can save over a half-ounce or one ounce difference in their product. Ah, the American businessman scores again!