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Originally Posted by saracen
Draugen - Everytime Subway opens in an area without a lot of money, there are naysayers. The fact is though, we often thrive in these locations. I own a store in one of the most deprived areas in the country, and it does well. When the product is as good as I believe ours is, people will pay for it. Our target demographic will also travel some quite considerable distances to eat at our stores!
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OK, I have a 6 year old daughter who loves the subways sandwich. And when we go down south the location of Gretna Village does make for quite a good lunch stop. However, if there wasn't a playpark (and a couple of handbag shops!) we wouldn't stop specifically for the sandwiches.
The point Saracen is making is that the geography of the areas that subway is moving into, for example Hawick & Girvan, just doesn't make sense. The nearest towns to girvan is Ayr at 20 miles away (with 3 subways) and Stranraer at 30 miles away.
Who in their right mind is going to drive a round trip of 50 miles ish for a sandwich. I could understand it maybe if they'd have chosen a location nearer the secondary school, and on the road that the irish ferry traffic use. But they didn't.
Asda opened up their smallest supermarket in the whole wide world here in Girvan. The smallest walmart store, anywhere! Does that sound like a town that can support a subway?