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Sandwiches from the shop are too expensive

Like many office workers I don't take in sandwiches made at home, but prefer instead to buy one either from the local shop or the company run deli bar.  Unfortunately I'm finding that I am increasingly dissatisfied with what is on offer and how much it costs.

My complaint is about two things really, first the cost and secondly what you actually get for your money.  Depending on where you buy it a sandwich or baguette will cost between two and four pounds which I think isn't great value really.

The dearer ones are in actually fact usually tasty and often very satisfying but having to hand over that much cash just leaves a bad after taste.

With the cheaper ones you'll either end up with a couple of limp bits of dodgy looking wholemeal bread and some thin and less than appetizing filling, or even worse the lettuce monster!!!

Lunch bagguette salad sandwich I think it's the lettuce monster that I hate the most. Why is it that sandwiches these days have to be 'filled out' with lettuce and salad stuff?  Do they think that cramming the bread full of this cheap green stuff can really cover up the fact that there isn't really much of a sandwich there in the first place?  Maybe the whole world bought into this healthy crap but I sure haven't and I'd rather see a couple of decent chunks of bread filled with something substantial.

You might well say that I should just make sandwiches at home and bring them in if Im not happy with what is on offer.  Fair comment actually, however, the whole reason I don't is because I don't usually have the time to make them either the night before or in the morning.  Besides, I'm not exactly organised enough to get the extra items with the shopping and you could say Im a bit lazy so I guess the only choice is to cough up, eat up and shut up!

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I love bringing my own packed lunch into work, knowing I'm saving a fortune. "MOST" takeaway outlets "ARE" a Bloody ripoff! Domino's being the worst, £16 for one pizza!

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Billy no mates :( - 22-Apr-12 01:20 

I was put off going to subway when a worker sneezed all over the bread rolls. He turned around to sneeze so as not sneeze all over the customers but still, I was not gateful to the extent where I was willing to eat his snot. I was the only customer who left the queue so I suppose the other customers enjoyed a Subway Melt and a Meatball Marinara with fresh snot that day.

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atishoo - 20-May-11 12:51 

Prices are set to what people are willing to pay.

The demand is there, so why would they lower their prices?

Don't like it, don't buy it.

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S&D Baby - 20-May-11 01:39 

Ah this gripe is so useless but funny, im a caterer & the reason we fill sarnies with lettuce is because its a cheap ingrediant and leaves less room for filling (profit margin) now u say price- what your payinf for is ingrediants+labour! =i think I just sent alit of people to sleep but just thought id waste two minutes of my life seen as nothing better to do- haha

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Tinks - 22-Apr-11 22:51 

Confused, stay confused mate, if your confusion to date has got you a petrol station.

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Cynical Boblet - 23-Feb-11 11:31 

I just lost 30 seconds of my life reading that utter tripe.

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dissatisfied - 23-Feb-11 10:41 

Just wondering, I own a Petrol Station, somebody was in trying to sell sandwiches, what should I profit should I get off each sandwich, somebody said 15%, is that enough???

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Confused - 11-Oct-10 15:24 

The rolls in Subway are nothing like the advertised products.Had to complain on several occasions because they are flat & soggy.Best go to Greggs the bakers.

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Ex Subway customer - 9-Jul-10 22:37 

I go to Subway not too expensive, fairly healthy, depends on what you get,

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Subway customer. - 12-Jun-10 23:32 

If you really don't like what sandwich shops have to offer, then you know the answer - make your own!

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scottme - 5-Jun-10 19:47 

Sandwiches in shops are too expensive. Another rip off is sausage rolls - WHSmith charge £2.09 for a Ginsters in one of their stores. These rip off merchants should be prosecuted for "recklessly engaging in commercial practice". This is a crime under recent Trading Standards legislation. The high prices we see for sandwiches and sausage rolls clearly are extortionate. One Trading Standards officer you can write to about WHSmith is:-

Carole Hanaghan
Trading Standards
Hampshire County Council
The Castle
Winchester

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Terry - 24-May-10 23:18 

I'm tired of having to pay 10 bucks for what... a freaking Sandwich!? This is in Subway and Quiznos but Quiznos is more expensive so what the duck...

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I don't like paying 10 buc - 26-Feb-10 19:23 

Go into the countryside and expect to be served pigswill. Someone has told these former country bumpkin pubs to smarten up their accountancy act, and make a profit. Not a living, but a profit. So what do you get? Ploughman's Lunch? Well if you order that you have been had. No ploughman ever had lunch like that. And what's it got to do with ploughing? Damm all really.

Country Fayre = Dinner for country faeries.

Cider = Fermented rotten apples

Keg ale = Beer which has travelled a hundred miles in a can.

Most country pubs are fake, selling some olde world atmosphere that never was.

Ask for a full nutritional and food analysis of whatever you are served. Todays' meals contain about 50% of the protein they formerly did 30 years ago.

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Grub Lane - 30-Dec-09 14:27 

What a rip off....decided never to eat or drink there again.

Oh pur---leezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Just because the sandwich wasn't to your expectations, doesn't mean you never going to go there again

It be like saying, if I had a bad experience in a place, ie Scotland. Would I then say, because that happened, I'm not going there again? No I love Scotland, and don't care.

Get a grip!

I had a bad experience in a supermarket, would I say I'm not going there again NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I had a bad experience in a pub once, would I say oh because that happened, would I stop visiting pubs NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I enjoy a drink at t'local, forgetting what happened in that one 'said' pub

Enjoy the pub, no matter if you didn't like the food much, you can still have a drink

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Tim - 30-Dec-09 07:01 

My friend and I decided to have lunch at the Rose Inn, Barling Essex.....we pondered over which sandwich to have and opted for the elegantly labelled..Red Tractor Farm chicken with rocket. I had this on brown, my friend on white...£9.95.

Our sandwiches were served..each contained 3/4 thin slices of chicken breast and rocket, dry, then on the plate even more rocket. We asked for some tomato or something to make it more tastier and subsequently were given 2 sliced.

What a rip off....decided never to eat or drink there again.

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Goldy - 9-Nov-09 15:27 

Also, Subway is never soggy. If you ask for sauces, you get sauces. You choose the fillings, and what goes in it. Dont come running, saying, "it;s soggy, eww, well you asked for sauces, you get what you pay for. Yes making it at home is cheaper, but if like me, you dont have money for all the ingredients, then it's hard. Also I might add, there's water thats naturally in salad when it's chopped. so there goes your first question.

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Tim - 18-Sep-09 08:35 

Plus, to the griper..organise yourself and make a shopping list! It will benefit you in the end.

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People need to go back to scho - 26-Aug-09 02:41 

Yes this is definitely down to laziness...if you can't be bothered to spend a few minutes making your own sarnies, then expect to pay for the privilege of someone else doing it.

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People need to go back to scho - 26-Aug-09 00:19 

Why sandwiches from shops are too expensive? Obviously because the poor chap sitting behind the counter has to pay rent, wages, electricity, taxes, and rates, insurance and rubbish collection etc. I think it is fair to say that lazy people have the only choice for others to feed them and they have to cough up, eat up and shut up. I own a coffee shop that makes very tasty baguettes, Panini, toasted sandwiches, (home made falafel) raps. If you can't afford it forget it.
News agents sells cheap soggy sandwiches two days old for 99p, mine costs £2.50 - £4 depending on size and contents made to order on the spot. A tin of Coke is sold for 50p in many places, in restaurants it costs £2 for a small glass filled with ice. I might rename my shop "The Rip-off-Cafe" I am sure I will get a lot of curious customers that will part with there cash to eat good healthy food. If I sell a sandwich for 40p no one will buy it because they will think it is cheap and there must be something wrong with it. Curiosity really ki11ed the cat.

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The Plain Truth - 25-Aug-09 20:48 

I am not a fussy eater, but I have taken my own lunch to work for years.

The main reasons for me were quality, price, taste and healthiness.

On quality and price, I began to see uninspiring sandwiches with scant and run of the mill fillings, at prices two or even three times the price of a whole loaf of bread! I did a little maths and saw that with a little bit of effort, I could make a satisfying, tasty lunch-box which included sandwiches, snacks, yoghurt and a drink for about the same price as a pre-packed droopy sandwich.

On taste and healthiness, I switched to stoneground wholeameal bread, low calorie spread and tasty fillings. Grated cheese and pickle has fewer calories than sliced cheese and pickle, as you use less cheese for the same taste sensation. Tuna mix with sweetcorn, tomato flesh and diced pepper mixed with reduced fat mayo or salad cream is lighter in calories but tastier and healthier than any tuna mix from a shop's shelf!

I don't find it difficult to shop for or make my lunches. It's just something I've got used to over the years. There are the ocassional, days when I haven't made my lunch-box and have had to buy sandwiches and the like. But I have found that eating these foods so unpleasant, that not taking my own lunch is very rare!

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BintoBox - 13-Aug-09 00:53 

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