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Re: OT: A&P supermarket bankruptcy

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: OT: A&P supermarket bankruptcy
Date	2015-08-03 09:24 +1000
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"Tom Dadey" <tomdzip1@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:cdfdc0f9-b033-473d-a06c-95dfb42b5e0c@googlegroups.com...
> On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 3:55:41 PM UTC-4, Rod Speed wrote:
>> "jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:PM00051C3F49CFCEDD@aca428c9.ipt.aol.com...
>> > Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> >> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> >>>> Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> writes:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>      Now that I have thought some more on it, I recall Subway
>> >>>>> locations have the standard menu and are allowed to have three 
>> >>>>> local
>> >>>>> differences.  They mention this so the inconsistency problem is
>> >>>>> ameliorated.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Our local Outback Steakhouse manager was full of apologies that
>> >>>> Corporate had come down on him and demanded that he no longer make
>> >>>> green
>> >>>> chile available to put on steaks.  In Las Cruces NM, the home of
>> >>>> capsaicin addiction....
>> >>>
>> >>> That makes no sense.  Did they charge for the sauce?
>> >>
>> >> Not sauce, just green chile strips.  And yes, it cost extra.
>> >> I agree, no sense whatever....
>>
>> > Especially if they were making money from it.
>>
>> But they have decided that they make more money by having
>> all their stores identical so you get the same result whatever
>> store of theirs you choose to use in your travels, knowing that
>> they have a completely consistent result. Its never as black and
>> white as you two are claiming.

> That's a real load of nonsense!

Maybe.

> Look at what happened to the Howard Johnson
> restaurant chain. They are all but out of business.

But others that have the same approach are not.

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