Megan Rapinoe is a millionaire athlete who whines about her pay, kneels for the Anthem, and is entitled to her less than uplifting opinion of America and the majority white population. And she owns it, so props there. But someone at Subway thought that’d make for a great spokesperson.
Many franchisees were reportedly unhappy with the choice, and things went about how you’d expect with Rapinoe fronting the brand.
Subway closed 1,609 locations in COVID Year One (2020) and, after adding Rapinoe in 2021, watched as another 1,043 were shuttered in 2021. Hey! That’s almost 600 fewer, yeah? See! Success. Sure, like any good progressive, managing the decline.
Could we say that a lot of Subway’s customers took a knee?
And yes, this may be just a product of the natural order of things. Businesses rise and fall all the time, many of them after decades of success or even dominance.
But while Subway survived Jared, who turned out to be a pedophile and went to prison, can it survive Megan? Can the company leadership? How about their marketing team and advertising firm?
She can’t complain. She gets paid to do ads no matter how crappy the economy or the sales, so the folks at Subway Headquarters might want to consider someone else since things aren’t looking up, someone cheap.
Kamal Harris isn’t busy.
