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stoy ,

They have been busy closing restaurants in the center of Stockholm lately, a few years back they closed the first ever McDonnald’s restaurant in Sweden, they also closed the highly popular restaurant at Norrmalmstorg at the same time…

eletes ,
@eletes@sh.itjust.works avatar

McDonald’s is on the boycott list for the Palestinian genocide. I’m really curious if that had any effect.

I would think it’s not that much inside the US but McDonald’s has a large global presence.

dependencyinjection ,

I boycotted McD due to this list, UK, and I really don’t miss it. It also got hella expensive and the service got worse.

I must say, boycotting things has had no Ill effect on my life and in fact I likely spend less money than before.

Virual ,

From the article:

“Industry traffic has declined in major markets like the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Germany. In several markets, we also continue to be negatively impacted by the war in the Middle East,” McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said on the company’s earnings call.

So it does seem to be working to some extent.

MehBlah ,

They want to reverse that then lower their prices to account for actual inflation.

ByteOnBikes ,

Most of these comments are complaining about price? This isn’t a new thing. They’ve been raising prices pre-Covid while lowering quality even more.

Unless you’re dying of hunger, any other place would have been better at the same price.

BradleyUffner ,

I’m not paying $16 for a 10 piece nugget, fries, and a drink. I can pay $12 for more and better food at a sit down restaurant next door.

ByteOnBikes ,

In before shitty comments about downloading the McDonalds app so you can get discounts while selling your private info

Raiderkev ,

And agree to binding arbitration!

greenskye ,

McDonald’s has a pretty shitty loyalty program anyway. They have a very limited selection of stuff you can even spend the points on and you can’t both use points and a daily deal at the same time.

BreadstickNinja ,

There’s a pizza place near my house that does wood-fired NY pizza, two giant slices plus a soda, for $7.50.

I dunno how they’re making those prices work, but that’s the only junk food meal I’m buying these days. I’d pay more for less food of worse quality at any fast food place.

vzq ,

McDonald is not a food company, it’s a real estate company.

All the posters complaining about the food quality are missing the point. They could sell cardboard and for years their bottom line would be unaffected until franchisees started failing en masse.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Two days ago my gf had a few bites left of a McDonald’s cheeseburger and offered it to me. I took one bite and said “No thanks”. That she not taste or feel like food. The kicker is that she then offered it to the cat, who will eat anything. I will swear to whatever god you believe in, that cat turned his head away like she was presenting a decayed corpse. She tried two more times and he literally ran away from this burger.

The fact that this shit is overpriced on top of being horrible food adds insult to injury. I don’t understand how McDonald’s was ever popular to begin with.

ByteOnBikes ,

Please don’t feed cats human food.

Even if they’re shitbags.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

FWIW I never do, but I’ve given up trying to tell her that.

ChadCMulligan ,

Seems like the accountants all across the drive through world have forgotten that the reason cheap food was so popular is that it was CHEAP food.

Ironically even though their main menu items and combos have gone crazy price-wise in the last couple years, McDonald’s is one of the few fast food places I still frequent for lunch because if you use the app you can still get a decently filling meal for 6-7 bucks; 2 double cheeseburgers BOGO $1, large fry (free), large drink at regular price. Not great, but 6 something bucks. The quarter pounder combo meal I used to get has nearly tripled in price in the last 5 years and the Big Mac is not only smaller but way more expensive…

Not sure what they were expecting to happen 🤷‍♂️

Buelldozer ,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

This chart really highlights the problem; since 2014 overall inflation is 31% but MCDONALDS inflation is at 100%!

_lilith ,
@_lilith@lemmy.world avatar

I went to one for the first time in years because I was starving and a shitty hash brown, breakfast sandwich and coffee sounded good. coffee half full, no hash brown and the sandwich gave me a three day bout of food poisoning. never again, I would rather not eat.

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

Good

greenshirtdenimjeans ,

The only good experience I’ve ever had at McDonalds was a food fight in baltimore in 2007. Cops came, it was fucking wild.

Sludgehammer ,
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder how much more money they’d have if they hadn’t renovated all their locations into ugly grey slabs of brick and glass?

ChadCMulligan ,

Bring back the burger stools.

Exusia ,
@Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

We used to be a PROPAH countreh

kaitco ,

I went to McD’s a week ago for an Egg McMuffin meal with an extra hash brown and a large Coke for the drink: $15.00. Less than 2 years ago, this exact meal was like $5.

I hope they go down in flames at this point.

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I do wonder how much of this is brought up from vendors being greedy as well towards McD?

mosiacmango ,

What vendor is going to be able to out muscle McDs?

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

The one who sells the McFlurry machines for one

mosiacmango ,

Isn’t that some weird incestuous buisness relationship between McDs corporate and the vendor that just so happens to screw over the franchises?

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

I mean yeah, but I wonder how many other vendors so this kind of crap to franchises. Again, not taking any blame towards McD (they can fuck off into the sunset), I was just wondering if there was even a small percentage of chance that vendors could also have something to do with the price increases.

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t understand getting to the drive-thru and seeing those prices and ordering the food anyhow. Why don’t you just tell the person, “actually, never mind. this is too expensive?”

Go to a grocery store nearby and grab a deli sandwich and fountain drink. At least it’ll be fresh food.

teft ,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, but then I’ll have to get out of my car like some sort of animal. /s

RustyShackleford ,
@RustyShackleford@programming.dev avatar

But then you’ll finally get some exercise and do something about your sat-in bean bag chair physique. /s

teft ,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t actually own a car. I bike everywhere. Hence the /s

KnightontheSun ,

The sarcasm was about the car and not about being “some sort of animal”?

Was all that just so you could tell us you bike everywhere? /s

teft ,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

No, the /s was to show I was mocking others who do this exact thing and have this exact thought process. Why would I care if people know I bike? I live in a city where biking is way more prevalent than cars.

Dead_or_Alive ,

If you are pressed for time and/or have your hungry kids in the car then a couple of dollars isn’t a big deal. But that doesn’t mean those consumers are going to come back again after getting burned by high prices.

Starbucks raised the price of my iced coffee and changed the recipe for the brew. I still ordered and drank it, but I have cut my visits from three or four times a week to only once in the last three months. This means they lost out on not only my drink revenue, but the revenue on what I would have ordered for my wife and kids as well.

Orbituary ,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

So, you’re now drinking something you don’t like only a few times? Just go somewhere else.

phoneymouse , (edited )

Coke for breakfast, yuck

Edit: you can downvote all you want, I’m not wrong. If you’re drinking coke for breakfast, you’ve got issues, maybe negligent parents.

undergroundoverground ,

Thats ok, you can have something else.

BradleyUffner ,

Same as coffee.

JJROKCZ ,

Pretty sure coffee isn’t made of high fructose corn syrup

Thorry84 ,

Neither is coke in most of the world, that’s an American thing.

SeaJ ,

Cane sugar is not much better…

phoneymouse ,

Coffee is what people drink for breakfast. If you’re drinking coke for breakfast, you probably had negligent parents.

Psychodelic ,

That addiction’s real. Gotta take the edge off somehow

Seriously though, that sucks and it’s super sad

TheFeatureCreature ,
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world avatar

I haven’t eaten there in nearly 15 years after a period where every time I ate food at a McDingle’s location I got massive food poisoning.

Sounds like I haven’t been missing much.

sunzu ,

The plebs are not buying our shiti slop... poor corpos, didnfu nuffin to deserve this!!! RHEEE

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