No more Subways for me. But I will call local store managers.
You did good Mrs. P!
Thanks for the article. Subway has never been a favorite of ours (too many good mom&pop sandwich shops around) but they slipped a bunch of pegs in our view.
Jerrod!!!
Get that Jerrod guy out here quick, before anyone notices. They love Jerrod.
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Your post is fine. Cross Subway off the list. Kinda like the way colleges limit the intake of Asians because they are too good!
OK, so the top prize was $5000 worth of athletic equipment to the winning child’s school, a scholastic gift basket (I assume it is for the winning child’s home — I couldn’t tell what was included here — what, pencils, erasers, writing tablets, maybe?), a $100 Subway card (again I assume that is for the winning child), and the story published on one of subway’s websites (subwaykids.com) and Parent and Child magazine.
Hmm..what would be included in the athletic equipment that they would give to a school but wouldn’t want to give to the child’s parents?
If it’s something that the parents couldn’t accept (say the child lives in a townhouse and the landlord won’t allow a basketball goal to be set up), they could turn it down. Of course I would expect the parents would have to pay taxes on the winnings and the school district would not.
I’ve already called several of the local Subways in my neighborhood, told them I disagree with what corporate is doing, and that they won’t get another dime of my business EVER unless this policy is revoked.
2. ELIGIBILITY. Contest is open only to legal residents of the United States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted. Employees and members of their families of Scholastic and Subway, their parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their advertising, promotion and production agencies are not eligible to enter. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.
Thank you for this thread. I have already sent an email! I am steaming angry! I home schooled my 3 children all went on to college receiving their degrees.
This is an outrage!
I’ve never much cared for Subway, thought their sandwiches were substandard at best. After eating North Village subs in Columbia (during the 70’s) while attending MU Subway’s product tastes like cardboard (the low-fat deal prolly being the reason).
Besides their national spokesman Jarrod sounds like a real clown. A sport’s based AM station in KC wanted to interview him while he was in KC a couple years ago just for grins (I mean it’s not like the guy split the atom or even hit a walkoff home-run in some church softball league game) But Jarrod wanted some unbelievable sum per minute just for this goofy interview. The station told him to take a hike.
We homeschooled our two younger kids, but I'm not getting my knickers in a twist about this. Some folks on our State message group have e-mailed the companies and expressed their displeasure. One received an e-mail stating that they won't exclude homeschoolers in the future. I'm guessing they must have gotten a boat load of angry e-mails!
Jared has aides.
http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kids/contest.aspx
1 Grand Prize Winner
Athletic equipment for your child's school ($5,000 value).
Maybe this was just promoted by lawyers wanting to ensure that the prize actually goes to help kids versus someone's home where there isn't necessarily an actual home school.
It's a contest for school kids, after all.
Look. It’s the same reason you box others in your weight class. The homeschoolers would pummel the public school kids. It’s just not fair.
I sent a courteous “Goodbye” email to the company’s customer service site, and I will hereafter spend my money at Quizno’s or Moe’s. Stupid Commies!
How many people live in the Untied States? I can't even find it on a map.