Subway's "3 Foot" Subs Are Shorter Than 3 Feet

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newVideoPlayer("newz_cast_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Apropos of our post on new Subway Super-Stuffed Subs, the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures sent us this KNVX investigative news clip into sandwiches that weren't quite measuring up...

We got a complaint about six months ago concerning six-foot subs that weren't six feet long. Subway's response was to change its advertising - in Arizona at least - but not address the issue that its six-foot subs were about four inches short of the advertised length.
Our favorite part is when the calipers show Subway's three-foot sub box isn't even three feet long.

Apropos of our post on new Subway Super-Stuffed Subs, the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures sent us this KNVX investigative news clip into sandwiches that weren’t quite measuring up…

We got a complaint about six months ago concerning six-foot subs that weren’t six feet long. Subway’s response was to change its advertising – in Arizona at least – but not address the issue that its six-foot subs were about four inches short of the advertised length.

Our favorite part is when the calipers show Subway’s three-foot sub box isn’t even three feet long.

Sub-Standard [KNVX]

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