foot long sub lawsuit

[guncrasher]

Point is that people are suing over 'missing' sandwich length that very well might not be missing, likely totals less than $0.03 (its all bread at the edges) if it even is missing.

The bad part is that it almost certainly made them happy to notice, for the chance at a lawsuit.

yes but you miss the point .3 cents times millions of sandwiches a year comes up to millions of dollars to the company.  pennies do add up.


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[ToeTag]

2 x 4  = 1.5 X 3.5 inches. apparently your tape measure was used to measure a sandwich.

I could write a book on nominal vs actual in wood dimensions.  But most people heads would shrink in size after that.

[guncrasher]

2 x 4  = 1.5 X 3.5 inches. apparently your tape measure was used to measure a sandwich.

I could write a book on nominal vs actual in wood dimensions.  But most people heads would shrink in size after that.

doing it from memory havent done construction in years.


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[Tank-Ace]

Big point is that it might not even be missing.

I can stretch one to be 14+ inches, or squish it to be probably less than 6". For all we KNOW, the squished their sandwich so they could sue.

Forget your suspicion and mistrust of any company with a profit margin, and you're defending people suing over NOTHING MORE THAN squashed bread.


If we allow this type of crap (and it is complete and total crap), soon subway will have to specify the meat to vegge ratio, or people will sue on the grounds that its a vege sandwich with ham as a topping, or whatever you call it.

 And that is entirely unreasonable.

[Tec]

So if you got an 11 pack of beer that would be alright?  The word foot when used as a unit of measurement has a specific length, and it ain't 11".

[Tank-Ace]

The difference is you can't make one of the cans disappear during packaging and handling. Fact is that those people don't care that their sandwich is 11 1/2" inches, except insofar as its potential use as a vehicle for lawsuit.

 If they cared beyond any monetary gains they stand to make, I would support them as far as I can empathize with someone getting pissed over a slightly deformed sandwich. But all they care about is the money and the attention, which puts them in a position of moral inferiority, even if subway was intentionally shortening their sandwiches (I am convinced this is not nessicarally the case).


Beyond that, isn't the point of the foot long just to be a large sandwich? The dough-ball almost certainly was weighed or otherwise measured (they aren't stupid human error can work both ways, potentially costing them money), which means what's 'missing' in length is present either in width, height, or slightly denser areas of the loaf (likely the easily squished and compressed ends of the sandwich)

[Tank-Ace]

Here, let me try to verbalize why this crap offends me: they wouldn't freak out if it was a local shop. Theyre doing it either to spite the evil greedy sandwich company (whos greed is well earned and actually benefits them significantly), or because they're lazy/stupid/white-trash/peasantry and want to have subway give them money they don't deserve to look at, yet alone touch.


Not only does this crap harm the economy by harming subway, but it also devalues the legal system, and sets an extremely bad precedent.

[guncrasher]

The difference is you can't make one of the cans disappear during packaging and handling. Fact is that those people don't care that their sandwich is 11 1/2" inches, except insofar as its potential use as a vehicle for lawsuit.

 If they cared beyond any monetary gains they stand to make, I would support them as far as I can empathize with someone getting pissed over a slightly deformed sandwich. But all they care about is the money and the attention, which puts them in a position of moral inferiority, even if subway was intentionally shortening their sandwiches (I am convinced this is not nessicarally the case).


Beyond that, isn't the point of the foot long just to be a large sandwich? The dough-ball almost certainly was weighed or otherwise measured (they aren't stupid human error can work both ways, potentially costing them money), which means what's 'missing' in length is present either in width, height, or slightly denser areas of the loaf (likely the easily squished and compressed ends of the sandwich)

you missing the point that it's not that they make the sandwiches at 11 inches, but the fact that they promote them as a foot long or 12 inches.  

I'll give you an example from last year.  I went to my local grocery store and they had the amaretto disarono at about 12 buck which is 5 bucks lower than normal.  so I bought it.  the sale ended about 4 days later, but I kept going back to the store and on the shelf they had the same sale price for 2 weeks at 12 bucks.  when I went to the register they would ring it up at 17 dollars plust change and I would point it out that the shelf said 12 dollars and they would check and adjust the price.  I bought about 5 or 6 bottles untill the manager noticed it and asked one of the clerks to fix the price on the shelf.

I just wonder how many people bought that bottle in those 2 weeks because it was at 12 dollars but didnt notice that they were charged 17.  you think they would have removed the sign the first time I told them that the price on the shelf was different.

 those few bucks add up pretty soon and the only thing that stops companies is lawsuits.

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[guncrasher]

Here, let me try to verbalize why this crap offends me: they wouldn't freak out if it was a local shop. Theyre doing it either to spite the evil greedy sandwich company (whos greed is well earned and actually benefits them significantly), or because they're lazy/stupid/white-trash/peasantry and want to have subway give them money they don't deserve to look at, yet alone touch.


Not only does this crap harm the economy by harming subway, but it also devalues the legal system, and sets an extremely bad precedent.

this is dumb consumers who file class action lawsuits don't win millions of dollars.  perhaps you should look that up.  you want to buy my 10 dollars certificate from back when milli-vanilli was lip singing?  I think they have gonna up in value by now.

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[bigsky]

The reason a 2x4 is the dimensions that it is, 2x4 is the rough sawn  dimensions. Modern lumber is planned smaller and it does not loose any strength because it is planned. at least that was what I was taught in construction class in high school. I am no Norm Abrams but I used to be a journeyman carpenter. I have worked with rough sawn lumber and it not a very consistent, key word to remember is ROUGH. That is why you need to do layouts from the center of the boards not the edges like on planned lumber. I hope this clarify the wood issue and we get back to samiches.

[Gustav]

I like how its being made out that Subway is only making 11" subs deliberately, while completely ignoring how easily squished bread is. Did they even try to talk to anyone in the store over them being so short changed by a slightly shorter sub or did they go directly to the lawsuit direction?

I wonder if this succeeds will it get to the point that people may eventually try to sue Intel or AMD cause someone encounter something like a CPU rated for 2.4GHz only runs at 2.36GHz or 2.38GHz or something like that.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Well now its standard that sandwiches are shorter than 12".

When you look at the average weight of an American the average sandwich lenght should be closer to 4" instead of 12.

[zack1234]

Subway think its fantastic the worldwide publicity they are getting is worth its weight in gold

Everyone is going to buy one to check it out as well

This Apple and Samsung nonsense was the same

Arguments over Darwin and Greebo being related to monkeys is exactly the same, the deniers of evolution like the publicity to keep in the lime lite

That new map is fantastic and so is my new i7 4.3ghz £2000 pc
it had a radiator bigger than my car      

[homersipes]

if I go buy 1/2 " cdx plywood it is actually 15/32"  I want my other 1/32" that I paid for   I mean come on, has anyone ever weighed the food that you buy in a store?  I have and its sometimes a little lower and sometimes a little over(did a study in high school of this) 

[zack1234]

plywood is a myth like Unicorns