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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.

Dead_or_Alive ,

My man, sometimes there is no where better to go and you just make due.

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.

BradleyUffner ,

Oh yeah, they were the worst. You have no idea.

Drusas ,

Coffee is not unhealthy when consumed in reasonable (normal) quantities and assuming you don't pour a quarter of a cup of sugar in there. Which most people don't, unless they're getting a "coffee beverage" like a frappe or whatever.

Psychodelic ,

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

Seriously though, that sucks and it’s super sad

Drusas ,

The addiction is probably just caffeine. Try coffee or tea.

SoJB ,

Trying not to be an ass with this info:

A large McDonalds coke is 290 calories and 77 grams of sugar (153% DV). Even a small is 150 calories and 39 grams sugar (77% DV).

I get it, I don’t like my lifestyle being attacked either and I freely admit I consciously choose some unhealthy options in my life such as having a few drinks a week and eating fatty foods or cheesecakes now and then.

But please, if you are starting your day by slamming 70 grams of sugar in your face, please reconsider lol. It’s gonna give you diabetes and ain’t no regular American can afford that.

That doesn’t even take into account what they add to the food itself 😟

Drusas ,

My family and I live on opposite sides of the country. My dad likes to come visit pretty regularly, and I used to be concerned at how little he drank. He drank beer, but barely took a few sips of water here and there.

It wasn't until, like, his fourth visit that I realized that he drinks soda. I now stock juice when he visits. Still sugary, but I'm not stocking soda for him. Anything left when he went home would just have to be poured down the drain.

I had forgotten that many Americans just don't drink water. And yes, he is pre-diabetic (but not overweight, remarkably enough).

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Last time I went to McDonalds it was almost as much as a decent pub burger.

Why wouldn’t I just go there and get twice the quality unless I was close by and totally pressed for time?

donnager OP ,

McDonald’s has long forgotten what is supposed to be. Cheap, low quality food. Now it is expensive, low quality food. Like you said…you can get a better burger at a restaurant for the same price if not lower. Longhorn Steakhouse has a burger lunch special for $9.99

Zahille7 ,

The Whataburger sweet g spicy burger combo is all of like $12 and change after tax. And that’s the large size.

And their food is actually pretty good.

sunzu ,

Whataburger

They always decent fasr food that was better than mega corps had to offer. Goot o see them still fighting the good fight lol

EvacuateSoul ,

They aren’t, this guy is on crack. They got sold off, and their quality has suffered quite a bit.

LordOfTheChia ,

Also there are fast food alternatives to McDonalds as well.

IMO, Wendy’s has much better burgers. Haven’t had Carl’s Jr’s in a long while but I remember their “$6 Burgers” were pretty good.

Burger King, the meat quality seems to have gone downhill. Like an unchewable but in each meat patty. They used to be my favorite.

Edit: the “$6 burger” is now called the thick burger since it now costs more than $6

KnightontheSun ,

Welcome to Carl’s Jr!

Fuck you. I’m eating!

NovaPrime ,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m baitin’

JJROKCZ ,

Dairy Queen has a $6 meal deal with a burger, fries, drink, and a sundae. All of it far better than MCD.

There’s also an option of chicken strips instead of burger if you want chicken instead of beef

Drusas ,

I had Five Guys for the first time ever last year and I was surprised by how good their burger was. The prices were a little shocking, but the food was not bad.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

I guess “consumer pullback” is one way to describe what’s going on with the economy…

solsangraal ,

and “consumer saying ‘hey waitaminute, i don’t actually need half the bullshit they’re telling me i can’t live without…’”

Telodzrum ,

The headline uses that term because consumer spending, across the economy as a whole, is up and a healthy amount. The “pullback” appears to be in select subsectors where price increases have drastically outstripped core inflation and/or specific companies who have done so without regard for competitors’ pricing.

hydrospanner ,

Thank you.

It shouldn’t (still) surprise me, but it always does…when people do drastically misunderstand or misinterpret economic information.

Psychodelic ,

What other consumer spending is up? Does that include rent and groceries? I mean, is that “increase” I spending not due to ridiculous amounts of “inflation” (read: corporate profits)?

(Can’t read the posted article since it blocks adblockers apparently)

Telodzrum ,

Real personal consumption expenditures is the most commonly used metric for “consumer spending” and it is adjusted against inflation. That is the number which is seeing 0.3-0.5% growth month over month, in 2024. There are other ways to measure consumer spending which are not adjusted against inflation or may only target baskets of goods.

corsicanguppy ,

(Can’t read the posted article since it blocks adblockers apparently)

archive.ph/10cGh

retrospectology ,
@retrospectology@lemmy.world avatar

Some talking heads on NPR were discussing the economy and how this was “the first time Millenials were seeing inflation” and how the economy is just waiting for consumers to “adjust”. This in the context of them also basically saying there needs to be more unemployment so wages don’t get higher.

It’s like victim blaming or something, corporations went on a price gouging spree during the pandemic and now we all have to learn to deal with it so Wallstreet can go back to business as usual, and they’re getting all pissy that people’s response is simply finding ways to spend less, instead of giving up their last nickle.

Funny how they never talk about corporations needing to tighten their belt or “adjust their expectations” to paying higher wages.

reflectedodds ,

The shareholders probably care, but to the layman, expecting 6.61 billion and only earning 6.49 billion doesn’t amount to much. They’re not going anywhere.

kate ,

as a shareholder i also do not care

kate ,

i had mcdonald’s for lunch today and was surprised how expensive it is now tbh. i know there’s no £1 cheese burger anymore but how is it £1.79

reddig33 ,

As a shareholder you should be concerned about high prices, poor service, and filthy stores. Not sure why anyone would want to pay a premium for their product when there are much better options for the same prices.

kate ,

more concerned with how the large fries box seems half empty every time now 😡😡😡

JJROKCZ ,

No offense but you’re probably not holding enough shares for them to care. Unless you own double digit percentages of the company then they couldn’t give a fuck what you think.

hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Looking at the stock price movement today, it doesn’t seem like the shareholders care, in fact it went up a significant amount probably because they were thinking it’d be worse. They’ll care if it continues to get worse, but for now they don’t seem to mind.

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.

ji17br ,

I agree it’s shitty, but you can definitely use points and a deal in the same order. I do it all the time. You cannot do 2 deals or 2 point redemptions in the same order.

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.

finestnothing ,

Because good food is cheap to make, especially when buying in bulk like restaurants. Pizza is super cheap to make from scratch, especially when you factor in restaurants buying in bulk. I make pizza from scratch pretty often, the dough is negligible cost wise (bread flour, water, salt, and yeast), the sauce is semi-expensive to make only because I use the fancy san-marzano tomatoes and make almost a gallon of amazing sauce for $18 (mainly the cost of the tomatoes) - for sauce good enough to get from a restaurant you could easily make a lot more for a lot less. The toppings vary in cost obviously, but those are easy to pass the cost on to the consumer.

Soda is also negligible cost wise, the syrup for a very large cup of soda is maybe a few cents for the restaurant, soda has one of the highest markups of any food items.

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%!

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

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.

EnderMB ,

It’s funny, because for a brief moment McDonalds had a spike in popularity when they reopened after COVID.

When they fully reopened their stores, it became clear as day that many of them had downsized in terms of staff. When your fast food is as fast as a standard burger place, it’s not fast…

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.

b161 ,

I’ve been boycotting McGenocide, KFC, Coca Cola, etc. for 10 months now and it’s not like it’s any effort at this point. I’m healthy and wasn’t planning on eating that garbage until Palestine is free. And at this point why would I ever eat it again? Shit food, unhealthy, expensive, supporting genocide. Why would I go back to it?

bouldering_barista ,

I haven’t gone to McDonald’s in YEARS and I’m not missing anything!

Ever since the big Mac meal went over $10, I was out. That was years ago and now it’s even worse. I’m also not a sucker for using their god-damned app so I can get a $1 small fry and a free q-tip. If I’m not happy with your prices at the drive-thru, then I’m just not going there.

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.

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

Good

solsangraal ,

i haven’t been to mcd in years, but my parents were sick with covid and requested i pick up some mcdonalds for them-- JFC how could i have ever thought it couldn’t get any worse–what a fucking shitshow

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.

corsicanguppy ,

The cat only gets cheese when the dog does, and very little. And not from me – they hit her up for it and she caves.

corsicanguppy ,

being horrible food

This is the most upsetting of all. I worked a combined 4 years at various restaurants in the 90s (from styrofoam packaging to ‘queueing’ micro-wave eras), the last part while in college and needing a place where I could get long shifts and legal free food – hint: Cool Runnings. It was maligned often, even then, but it was honest food, still – it was mass-cooked, but it was beef and actual pickles and actual onions and real ketchup and such. People complain about it being oily or bland, and that’s a taste thing we can’t refute; but it was beef and bread and cheese, and that job and a bus pass got me most of the way through where rice and beans couldn’t.

9blb ,

like she was presenting a decayed corpse

I mean… it quite literally is a ground up corpse. Given this is McDonald’s, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a little decayed as well.

Drusas , (edited )

I used to have a cat who absolutely loved their French fries. He'd come and beg for them and try to steal them like a dog. When he managed to get one, he'd hold it in his little fist (he had pterodactyly) and eat it like a toddler.

AlexanderESmith ,

I stopped going to McDonalds around 2004 after seeing Super-Size Me (which didn't really convince me of anything other than what I already knew; Fast food in general is gross).

A few years later, I was hanging out with some friends and someone wanted a drink or something, so we walked in, and the smell was overwhelming, and disgusting. It wasn't different, it was the exact same McDonalds smell, it was just gross as fuck.

About a decade after that, I was dating someone who wanted some of their fries (they were having a bad day and wanted comfort food). So I drive over there, just order the fries (everything else she wanted was already at home), and head home. The entire time, my car was filling with this gross, oily, I-don't-know-what smell of those fries. It occurs to me that I could only define it as "smelling like McDonalds".

Mind you, I've gotten fries at Wendy's, Jack in the Box, Arby's, etc. None of them smell gross. They smell like salty potatoes (except any place that has curly fries; they all seem to be from the same supplier, and they're gross).

I haven't been back to McDonalds in probably another 10 years, but I can only imagine that my first reaction would be to wretch, and my second reaction would be to leave. I have no idea how they fucked things up so bad, I had them all the time as a kid. I still eat Wendy's spicy chicken sandwiches, they're fine. wtf.

Sludgehammer ,
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world avatar

I’m betting what your smelling is the “beef flavor” (actually made of wheat and milk) in their fry seasoning. McDonald’s once used beef fat to cook their fries, so when they switched to vegetable oil they started throwing “beef flavor” on their fries to replicate the meaty flavor.

jprice ,

I agree with that, but to me the McDonalds smell smells like piss from someone who is dehydrated. It’s so gross. 🤮

Taleya ,

Have you tried paying attention to what customers want and will accept rather than dictating to them?

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