Wal-Mart Dumps McDonalds, adds Subway.

[Simotix]

I have not been here for several weeks because of a very close family member having a stroke so please excuse me if this is old news.

The Wal-Mart by me used to have a McDonalds in it and it actually ran a decent amount of business. I personally don't shop there but my mother needed to pick something up so I went with her. It has been about two months since I have been in it and now I noticed that where the McDonalds is, it is being torn down for a Subway. While this may not provoke as much thought to others as it does to me but I am suprised Wal-Mart, out of any place, dumped a large coperation such as McDonalds for a smaller chain such as Subway. Not to mention the healthy aspect to it. To bad there is a subway about one minute away, next to K-Mart.

[which doctor]

I just recently found out that Wal-Marts have these fast food chains in them when I saw the golden arch on the side of one of their buildings. A few days ago I saw a Subway sign on a Wal-Mart building. I am unaware if the Wal-Mart near me has anything in it. I refuse to shop there. I haven't seen any signs for any fast food chains on their buildings, but I haven't really been looking. I find it gross to just look at the ugly building which has robbed my town of the small, quaint shops that once populated Main St. in downtown. I think what fast food chain is in the store just depends on which store you are in. I don't think it's a national thing from McDonalds to Subway.

[FeArANDLoAtHiNg]

Yeah, I've seen that Subway is now in Wal-mart. Apparently Jared the Subway guy lost weight not through dieting, but through the fact that he couldn't afford food on Wal-mart wages.

[James]

Surprise it took them so long actually. Macdonalds is on decline, and subways etc are on the rise.
The problem with marketing macdonalds is that it is to a degree a "set" image. Its success was partly built on the fact it was the same thing everywhere - same food, same interior etc. That sort of food now though is increasingly less popular, along with that kind of interior. And of course its public image has been badly attacked.

[bolshevik butcher]

Presumably subway has bought out the fastfood franchise at wal mart then? It's true about mcdonalds they're operating at a loss just now.

[Wiesty]

ya, i remember seeing a subway at a walmart when i was just recently in north dakota. I wasn't sure if it was just for that walmart or if all the mcdonalds were being replaced. Interesting though.