Comments on: Subway Shows How NOT to Hold a Contest at Your Store

By: How to tick off a big group of customers | Business is Personal

How to tick off a big group of customers | Business is Personal — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:51:27 +0000

[...] Today’s guest post is from Ian over at Musings from a Catholic Bookstore, where he talks about the business lessons that the folks over at Subway missed while implementing their misguided campaign fo…. [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:07:21 +0000

Well, Subway heard the complaint and did something about it!

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kids/newcontest/index.htm

By: Daniel Bowen

Daniel Bowen — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:24:21 +0000

Annette,
Right – those Homeschoolers can’t use any new “equipment”. It’s not like we need to purchase our own teaching materials as well as pay taxes to purchase them for public school kids too. If you look at the percent of state budgets that goes to public education I think you will find that holding a contest to give them $5000 goes way beyond “common sense rational” anyway.
Daiel

By: Homeschoolmum

Homeschoolmum — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:44:02 +0000

annette — “Get a grip”?

First, I want to point out that assuming all – or even most – homeschoolers are among the Christian right is a bit ignorant. I’ve been homeschooling my kids for over 15 years, and I’m neither Christian nor Republican. I simply don’t see the point in turning my kids over to the state for indoctrination.

This is just a stupid move on Subway’s part. The prizes include more than just the athletic equipment, and the equipment could have been donated by the winning student to the school or recreation center of their choosing.

As a business, Subway really should have thought this through better. Why exclude a large segment such as the 3 million homeschooled kids out there? Why not use a little (tiny, really) creativity to come up with a solution such as, “equipment to be donated to the school or recreation center of your choice”?

It doesn’t take a genius, really, to come up with an option that includes home schooled kids.

By: Oblogatory Anecdotes

Oblogatory Anecdotes — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:51:31 +0000

Subway Discriminates Against Home Schoolers…

This is an outrage. Here is the phone number and address of Subway Corporation:

Subway Franchise Headquarters
325 Bic Drive
Milford, CT 06461-3059
800 888-4848

Let them know that they may allow discrimination in the “Untied States” but not t…

By: annette

annette — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:51:09 +0000

Get a grip, people. Parochial schools are included, Private schools are included. Adults 18 years old with kids (they must have given birth at 14 years old) are included. Nothing needs to be purchased.

It is obvious that the $5,000 grand prize of athletic equipment is meant for a school yard, for the benefit of many PreK-6th grade kids. Not for a single family, even if they home school their kids.

Although the challenge might have been better thought out, and spell checked by a person rather than the computer, I applaud Subway’s intention.

Your intention, and Michelle Malkin’s, is to stroke your own egos at the expense of the “common sense rationale” you mention. This shrill media outcry displays the worst of the christian and conservative communities, and is why I no longer publicly affiliate myself with such as you. This is NOT what Jesus would do.