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Cicero posted:Amazon has been steadily adding things to Amazon Prime, it's not super surprising that they're raising the price. At some point I imagine they'll split it into tiers. I hope that they do, because the constant increases are getting tiresome, especially in light of how obscenely profitable and huge they are. I only use Prime for the shipping and could not give less of a gently caress about anything else that it includes. boner confessor posted:if you own a few mcd's franchises you basically are just printing money Nice that someone's making bank, because the employees can't afford even the essentials. I wonder why that is... oh, wait.
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JustJeff88 posted:Nice that someone's making bank, because the employees can't afford even the essentials. I wonder why that is... oh, wait. Plenty of fast food restaurants close, even the big ones. From 2015: https://www.wpxi.com/news/mcdonalds-close-900-stores-amid-falling-profits/46306821
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baquerd posted:Plenty of fast food restaurants close, even the big ones. From 2015: https://www.wpxi.com/news/mcdonalds-close-900-stores-amid-falling-profits/46306821 Wasn't this from before they went to their absurdly popular all day breakfast menu? Plus, I don't think bc's point was really that McDonald's can't fail ever.
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JustJeff88 posted:Nice that someone's making bank, because the employees can't afford even the essentials. I wonder why that is... oh, wait. in the year 2018, a goon in d&d is quick to point out that owners of the means of production benefit unfairly from the exploitation of labor. this post is expected to be regarded as timely, and insightful
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I remember when Subway started offering toasted sandwiches to compete with places like Quiznos that toast their sandwiches by default. Then the Subway Brain Trust said “poo poo, what else can we toast in this thing? How about pizza?” I'm always impressed when a company manages to make pizza people will not eat.
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icantfindaname posted:I've seen several libertarian-y people say that these tech companies aren't really monopolies because they're not raising prices, standard economic theory says monopolies should raise prices above market value. Well, now the monopoly rents are flowing, this should end any doubt about these companies' nature I'm curious, what is the market rate for a streaming service that also offers unlimited 2-day shipping on drat near anything?
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Baronash posted:I'm curious, what is the market rate for a streaming service that also offers unlimited 2-day shipping on drat near anything? Nice try, Jeff.
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Fame Douglas posted:Nice try, Jeff. Beat me to it.
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Baronash posted:I'm curious, what is the market rate for a streaming service that also offers unlimited 2-day shipping on drat near anything? $99/year I think
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withak posted:$99/year I think 120 a year in the very near future.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:120 a year in the very near future. Actually, the strong, caring hand of the free market will pull forth an alternative to fill in the $99 price point when that happens.
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I used to work down the block from the original Subway location. It's still there and is still a Subway. I'd get lunch there sometimes. That's my take on Subway.
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Minenfeld! posted:I used to work down the block from the original Subway location. It's still there and is still a Subway. I'd get lunch there sometimes. Everyone can have their own opinion, but even I have been kind of bumfuzzled by the hatred for Subway in this thread. I would never nominate them for King o' Sandwiches, but I've been known to enjoy one on the odd occasion. I'm always open to suggestions on new things to try, but I think that they might be guilty of the wonderful "popular=bad" phenomenon.
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The problem with Subway is that it's aggressively mediocre. They'd be totally forgettable if they weren't literally everywhere. However every Subway on the planet is basically the same. It's the same level of mediocrity everywhere you go. I can't help but assuming that even international Subways have almost exactly the same stuff. That's the appeal to a lot of people; it's comfortable. You know what you're getting when you walk into every Subway that exists. People tend to hate them because of that mediocrity. Anywhere that there's a Subway you can probably walk fifteen feet and get something way better.
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I think Subway is just okay. I think most food is just okay. Some food is really bad and some food is great, but most of it is just okay.
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As someone who lives next to a gas station with deli counter subway, more like subhumanway
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Back in the 90s, Subway was markedly less gross than the fast food burger joints. People thought it was healthier, too, since those were the "dietary fat is bad, fat-free is good" days. Since then, we've gotten spoiled - fast casual, McD's giving a poo poo about quality, foodie gastropubs on every corner. I remember grabbing a Subway sub on the way back from work a few years ago. This was in a moderately high CoL urban center. The lady in front of me asked for everything on her $5 footlong. I mean everything. Oil, Ranch, Mayo, Southwest dressing, basically optimizing for calorie density. Makes sense, really - I imagine she only received a low wage and didn't have much time to cook.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I can't help but assuming that even international Subways have almost exactly the same stuff. Not really. In my experience Subways in other countries tend to have much smaller menus and usually at least a few sandwiches that you’re not going to see here. And even for the common sandwiches there’s usually a local twist to them. Hilariously, Subway in Sweden does not offer meatball subs. e: Same applies for a lot of fast food restaurants, really. The chicken at KFC in England is absolutely nothing like what you get in the States. And they don’t have mashed potatoes or potato wedges or mac and cheese. Noctone fucked around with this message at 04:34 on May 5, 2018 |
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Subway sandwiches are like edible white noise.
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Has subway actually gotten way worse in the last 10 years or are we just all mostly not teens anymore? I remember it was perfectly acceptable or even good, I'd look forward to getting a tuna melt on they day it was half price. Haven't eaten there in years but everyone I knew at about the same time just suddenly realized it made them feel awful and was disgusting.
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Baronjutter posted:Has subway actually gotten way worse in the last 10 years or are we just all mostly not teens anymore? I remember it was perfectly acceptable or even good, I'd look forward to getting a tuna melt on they day it was half price. Haven't eaten there in years but everyone I knew at about the same time just suddenly realized it made them feel awful and was disgusting. I'm fairly sure the whole "everything is turkey" shtick is less than a decade old.
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Baronjutter posted:Has subway actually gotten way worse in the last 10 years or are we just all mostly not teens anymore? I remember it was perfectly acceptable or even good, I'd look forward to getting a tuna melt on they day it was half price. Haven't eaten there in years but everyone I knew at about the same time just suddenly realized it made them feel awful and was disgusting. Subways seems to me to be exactly what I remember it as like 20 years ago. Even the buildings are the same; there's just more of them now.
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Baronjutter posted:Has subway actually gotten way worse in the last 10 years or are we just all mostly not teens anymore? I remember it was perfectly acceptable or even good, I'd look forward to getting a tuna melt on they day it was half price. Haven't eaten there in years but everyone I knew at about the same time just suddenly realized it made them feel awful and was disgusting. I would say the main thing turning people off the Subway brand is more that whole thing where the public face of it turned out to be a huge child molestor who's now in jail.
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fishmech posted:I would say the main thing turning people off the Subway brand is more that whole thing where the public face of it turned out to be a huge child molestor who's now in jail. this, also proliferation of other chains like jimmy johns is expanding like crazy here in california. and lots of fast-cas options also i do think they're worse quality now, or maybe i just care more. but having a bunch of sad wilted translucent poo poo produce is god-awful and always seems to be the case the very rare time i have gone. plus after working above a subway, their smell is loving nauseating and permeates everything which is like some instinctive taste-aversion thing now
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fishmech posted:I would say the main thing turning people off the Subway brand is more that whole thing where the public face of it turned out to be a huge child molestor who's now in jail. It hasn't been a good decade to have the name "Jared" or really any name that sounds close to it.
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I'm pretty sure their sandwiches are softer and damper than they used to be, especially compared to Jimmy John's, which uses bread that holds up and ingredients that taste like something. Every time I get a Subway sandwich it looks like someone ran it over. edit: I can't remember the last time I had a subway sandwich that didn't look like this: 
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JustJeff88 posted:Everyone can have their own opinion, but even I have been kind of bumfuzzled by the hatred for Subway in this thread. I would never nominate them for King o' Sandwiches, but I've been known to enjoy one on the odd occasion. I'm always open to suggestions on new things to try, but I think that they might be guilty of the wonderful "popular=bad" phenomenon. Not my fault every thing is low effort and overpriced. Like 8 dollars for a half rear end turkey sandwich lol.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:People tend to hate them because of that mediocrity. Anywhere that there's a Subway you can probably walk fifteen feet and get something way better. No, there's hardly any Quizno's around here anymore.
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Subway would be fine if the sandwich content wasn't contained between the worst bread ever. The bread alone brings it down to aggressively mediocre. http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=035.jpg Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 07:37 on May 5, 2018 |
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May 5, 2018 07:26
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You can snag Amazon Prime "Student" for $50 with a .edu email address. Pretty much the same benefits.
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Renewal requires having actual proof of being enrolled in a college, being accepted to a college, etc.
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lol at the visceral disdain at subways is because this is what common people eat
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So I guess Firehouse Subs is where people who think they're too good for Subway go?
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We have a Jersey Mike's where I live and they're pretty good. Boy I miss Quizzno's, though. They had the best broccoli cheddar soup.
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Noctone posted:
Can confirm. Icelandic KFC is the bomb and I used to vom at the idea of their chicken when stateside. But our taco Bell is still toilet time garbage.
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Noctone posted:Hilariously, Subway in Sweden does not offer meatball subs. There is a McDonalds fairly close but they really hate customers and rebuilt it to not use cashiers and only those gross touchscreens (do they ever wipe those off, or the keypads for the card readers?) and everyone has to wait in this really crowded and small area with no space to move or stand. It's terrible and I hope they lose a lot of business because of it.
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Neo Rasa posted:I'm always impressed when a company manages to make pizza people will not eat. Especially since people are willing to eat pizza with pineapple.
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Doctor Butts posted:No, there's hardly any Quizno's around here anymore. Because most people had their come to God moment with Quiznos and realized that their sandwiches become sort of amorphous and unnatural. I had one by my place a decade ago and realized (mid meal, one day after work) that they're the sandwich shop equivalent of the orange soda paradigm. First cup is amazing...second cup is 'why the gently caress am I eating this?'
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Alhazred posted:Especially since people are willing to eat pizza with pineapple. Oh yeah totally, what kind of barbarian would think to use a sweet, acidic fruit on a pizza.
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Quiznos died because of a flawed business model. Instead of corporate negotiating on behalf of franchisees to vendors like everyone else, corporate would buy and profit off selling everything to their franchises. Corporate got greedy, franchises become unprofitable, stores close, corporate loses franchises to sell to.
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