Jared from Subway

"Honey, the good news first: I'm not on the Ashley Madison list."

 

They're hidden in plain sight and all around us.

A friend of mine started a nonprofit to raise awareness of human trafficking in our state. She did a cocktail party fundraiser and invited a local prosecutor to speak. We all sat there stunned as this woman told stories of American kids trafficked by people in our town right under our noses. Technology makes it easy.

 

Good lord.

 

That's frightening.

 

If it is happening in America, I don't think there is an army of bogeymen out there harvesting our precious suburban Facebook ornaments. I highly suspect these would be extremely vulnerable children - homeless, impoverished, immigrants, and so on.

 

Subway is already in trouble thanks to Chipoltle, according to an article I read. This won't help sales.

I'm sure lots of people will still eat there.

But Subway seems completely unappetizing at the moment. And I doubt I'm the only one who feels that way.

Subway didn't just make Jared their pitchman, they made him their mascot. And unlike Ronald McDonald and Burger King, Subway's mascot was a human being.

Big mistake.

 

Good point. It was an enormous mistake when Subway forgot to bring its crystal ball to the 1998 job interview of anonymous college student Jared Fogle.

 

Yeah. People's knowledge of the issue is mostly through Liam Neeson kicking ass in "Taken."

Wealthy 18-year-old white American women are not the target victims here.

 

Baron would have known.

 

The smartest thing Subway did was immediately cutting ties with Fogle after his home was raided. Really, it was the only thing the company could do. There's no standing by your (pitch)man when he's an accused child pornographer.

Anyway, Subway sucks compared to Jimmy John's.

 

Just yesterday I read a story about a family in my town that was having some work done on their house. A subcontractor walked into the kids' room (ages 6 and 8) and showed them a photographic video on his phone. Fortunately the kids went right to mom, but what if they hadn't ?

Between the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, the Little League coaches, the former weatherman at my local TV station ... It's out there.

I'd rather know what I know and be hyper vigilant than think it's just kids from Asia.

 

I could definitely see some impact, for the short term at the very least.

This guy was their company poster child for a long, long time, and their brand is at least up to now, indelibly linked/associated to him.

And it's not like it's too difficult to find an alternative to Subway in the near vicinity--Blimpies, Jimmy John's, Jersey Mikes easily a replacement in my neck of the woods.

I do think this will cause at least a small number of current Subway customers to steer their car to an alternate deli shop for lunch for at least a little while.