The first Subway on the West Coast was opened in Fresno, California, in 1978.[1]The first Subway outside of North America opened in Bahrain in December 1984.[19] The first Subway in the United Kingdom was opened in Brighton in 1996.[20] In 2004, Subway began opening stores in Walmart supercenters and surpassed the number of McDonald's locations inside U.S. Walmart stores in 2007.[21]