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McDonalds Sales Plunge In Worst Month Since 2003 Following Dollar Meal "Sticker Shock"
Moments ago, McDonalds not only released earnings and revenues, both of which missed - something which was largely expected since the backward looking data had been telegraphed by MCD's recent global selling collapse - blanketed by atrocious commentary, but it disclosed its September global retail sales which were for lack of a better word, a disaster, after reporting global sales which dropped 3.8%, below the 3.2% expected, and the worst global month since at least 2003. The pain was everywhere, with Europe plunging 4.2% (est -0.9%), Asia down 7.5%, and the US down a whopping 4.1%, far below the 2.8% expected, and also the worst month in over a decade.
In fact, McDonalds sales in the US have have now gone a whopping 11 months without posting a positive sales month, the longest stretch on record!
But while collapsing MCD sales are a combination of both the insolvent US consumer, who can no longer afford to buy either MCD or Coke (as we commented earlier) especially after purchasing the latest and greatest iThing on credit, as well as shifting tastes and eating the "cool food du jour", things are only going to get worse from here.
Because in a world that is allegedly flooded with deflation, the one place where everyone considered safe for "dollar meals", just got more expensive. Bloomberg reports:
Mike Hiner used to take his grandsons to McDonald’s (MCD) when they wanted a treat. With higher wage and food costs pushing up prices at the Golden Arches, he’s increasingly taking them to IHOP, Denny’s and Chili’s instead.
The loss of bargain-seeking customers like Hiner underscores a growing challenge for McDonald’s Corp.: While the company still offers several items for $1, its menu is quietly getting more expensive. McDonald’s said its prices were up about 3 percent through the end of June compared with 12 months earlier. That’s more than the 2.5 percent gain in prices for food Americans purchased away from their homes in the year through August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The chain’s diminishing appeal among budget diners -- coupled with rising meat costs -- are projected to take a bite out of third-quarter earnings due to be reported tomorrow. Analysts estimate that McDonald’s revenue fell 1.8 percent to $7.2 billion in the period. Net income, which also were hurt by a food-safety scare in China, slid 11 percent to $1.36 billion, according to the projections.
And sure enough, see the charts above. But that is only the beginning:
Some Americans are extremely price sensitive, and any increases may send them elsewhere, said John Gordon, principal at San Diego-based Pacific Management Consulting Group, an adviser to restaurants and franchisees.
“If you encourage and kind of seed the notion that you can come in for a couple bucks and get some food -- and then you can’t do that anymore -- there’s bound to be a reaction,” he said.
There is also bound to be a reaction when the already broke US consumer maxes out their credit card on a telephone and forgets to eat.
The result has been that fast-food chains, long thought of as the cheapest place to grab a quick bite, may now have that reputation working against them, said Joel Cohen, president of Cohen Restaurant Marketing Group in Raleigh, North Carolina. The higher prices may be driving some customers to seek alternatives either at fast-casual chains like Panera Bread Co. (PNRA) or even at sit-down places, he said.
“It’s sticker shock,” Cohen said. “You’re up at price where you could just about be dining at a casual-dining restaurant.”
And when you hear the phrase "sticker shock" in the same sentence as a McDonalds dollar meal, you know the end is in sight.
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So a dollar meal is a couple bucks, now, huh?
When they cut back on restroom cleaning staff, I'll bypass.
"Let them eat microcrystalline cellulose [wood pulp] at Taco Bell's Happy Hour...because, hedonic adjustments."
-- Janet BernYellen
Just wait until their employees start making $15 and begin exhibiting a union work ethic.
2 pieces of dark meat for 99 cents at Church's Chicken every Tuesday !
Is any of it chicken?
They use a combination of Red Dye N0.4 and charcol to get that color. AND charcol is very good for you if you are a plant.
I am of course just kidding.....I must say that, even though it should be obvious, to avoid being sued now.
Good question .... the sign just says "meat" .....
MCD franchise owners should all be put in jail, millionaire wannabe's that don't give a fuck!
signed, "the clipboard guy"
Hey stackers I think they can call it meat if 30% of the patty or more is actual meat, the rest of the crap is fillers like cellulose lol
sicker shock
that shit will poison you
Americans ought to consider this a blessing in disguise. Fast food really is unhealthy, because of the saturated fats.
Saturated fats are not unhealthy for active adults who derive their calories from unprocessed, unadulterated, clean meats and other sources of protein, fats and so forth.
America has an edible food-like, processed, non-nutritional, sugar-laden, white flour, artificial/lab developed "food" and sedentary lifestyle problem.
Eat buffalo, beef, lamb, all animals that are raised naturally and w/out (or at least very minimal) hormones or antibiotics, eat fats like oils from plants and even butter and cream if you are active, eat as much whole fruits & vegetables as you want.
Stay away from processed shit.
Fat intake is not the problem. Food manipulation, pollution & food engineering is the problem.
I'm 6'2", 218 pounds, with about 12% body fat, can run three
miles in 16: 22, and can legitimately do 50 pullups (with proper form; how many people can actually do 5 pullups using proper form?) in under 2 minutes, and I am a total red meat carnivore (all clean meat, raised by people who actually care).
I eat wtf I want as long as its unprocessed and free of chemicals, additives, and is not molecularly re-arranged in a lab.
See Gary Taubes.
Buffalos are from Africa, I think you mean bison...
You are correct. The terms have gotten so intermingled as to be casually substituted for each other, but I should know better.
Well heard an ad from Obama, he wants teens to finish high school...
I'm sure teens all know there are no jobs waiting... and robots are pro-creating at an exponential rate.
Hm... what does that do to a black man from a poor family. Low expectations, low future earnings, poor prognosis, low expectation of sense of purpose... under employment.... social unrest... activism... Social movements... repeat of the black panthers... repeat of Malcon X...
1970s style assassinations, government coups... Counter-culture movement... Alternative Energy Movement...
McDonald's considers 'organics' after worst monthly sales growth in a decade
http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/22/mcdonalds-considers-organics-worst-monthly-...
You little beefcake ;-)
Chopped, reprocessed feet, necks, & beaks.
Mostly chicken, some crow & pigeon - pressed into attractive mock chicken leg shapes.
Breaded with cellulostic filler & flour and geletin (cattle/ pig hoof based) binder. real eggs are so '90s.
With less than the allowable govt limit of mouse droppings, insect parts, & misc dirt/ stone frags.
So you know it's nutricious & SAFE.
Don't forget the simulated, high-fructose GMO corn syrup-sweetened BBQ sauce for dippin.
yummmmmm!
After your trip to the chicken stand, don't call me if you start crappin blood.
In my city, same at Popeye's for $1.29. Still good price. It's one leg and one thigh.
Both owned by the same firm (Popeye's & Church's)
Chuch's is real meat though, you can watch them take the real pieces of chicken, batter it up, and fry it.
They could be putting ground up homeless people in their burgers and nobody would know.
pods
The homeless people would know.
but they'd be more nutritious
and leaner...
the ad campaign:
soylent brown - its what you're made of!
Fun fact - the bathrooms in McDonalds in London are the most clean, free public bathrooms you will find.
Just don't eat there.
McDonalds toilets really flush...
And they flush down all the mush.
McDonald's is our kind of place.
I thought you said the clown scared you from that place.
he was talking about the white house
Zerohedge would not be zerohedge without Wiliam. If William were to leave, the site would have to be shutdown.
Couple of eggs sunny-side (with Tabasco for some kick), some home made hash browns and a glass of OJ.
I bet it didn't take me any longer to make them than waiting at the McDonalds drive-through. Cheaper, too.
Yes, I gotta clean the pan out afterwards, but teflon coated cookware makes that much less of a chore than it useed to be in the old days.
Properly seasoned cast iron is pretty damned easy to clean too. You can have your old days and eat it too.
and a bit of extra nutrition
especially for you girly types
oh, and handy in a sexual assault
it was only a matter of time before the FED's game of "save market" would produce negative implications on the masses. This is a bell weather of the american economy and when peeps are shunning the cheapest meal on the block you know it is not good.
This can easily be fixed though by McDonald's offering it's own VENDER CREDIT CARD!! It can be backed by JPM and the peeps can apply right at the counter!!
Payment is always due next Tuesday...
What was it that WImpey used to say on popeye's cartoon. Something about lending me a burger today etc...
You got dinner plans, Gorgeous?
Something along the lines of "I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today". Probably not word for word correct, but close enough for a cigar.
I have not eaten at Mickie D's in so long, I forget what the fries taste like. ;-)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%27ll+gladly+pay+you+Tue...
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today "I'd like you to lend me some money"Etymology is from the cartoon "Popeye", where the character Wimpy would frequently utter this phrase. He was a glutton, and would consume burgers at a ferocious rate but could rarely pay for his habit.
The phrase implies the underlying feeling that the person will unlikely actually pay for the hamburger (or whatever) on Tuesday (or ever, for that matter.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ6xBaZ92uA
CrackDonald's certainly isn't the cheapest and their food tastes like crap. A Big Mac meal costs $7 now. I can get a Mooyah burger and fries for about $1 more. I don't need the coke.
McDonald's is also getting destroyed by Chick Fil A (CFA). CFA has real food, they hire high school kids usually from Baptist churches and they are all polite. The managers all want to get their own store someday because Chick Fil A gives it to them and they do a 50/50 split or something.
So you get quality food at the same price as McDonals, clean restaurants and a happy staff filled with the love of Jesus. I almost feel sorry for McDonalds because Chick Fil A is destroying them.
"The chain’s diminishing appeal among budget diners -- coupled with rising meat costs -- are.........."
Meat? where? in the animal fat used to boil the fries.
Eat your pink slime and shut up.
12 oz is the new pound went without a whisper, so why not?
Folks had better start learning how to cook. $5 blown at Mickey Ds will buy about 5lbs of chicken. It's just math.
Robertsgt40 - $1.99 per pound at Sam Club x 5 pounds = $10. But I don't disagree with your general point. $3.50 lb for 90% ground beef at Sam's. Bag of rolls $2.00. Cheese ten cents a slice. Four quarter pounders at $3.50 each at Mcdonalds = $14 vs. four at home for $7 including pickles and such. Half price and the meat quality doesnt make you sick after and nor do you screw your own order up. Hamburgers take little time to cook and I watch a show when doing it.
Subway is decent. My gf gets a ln eggwhite flat-bread for $6.50 and loads it up with spinach leaves, onions and olives. I did the math and it would cost $4.50 to make at home. I can get full on a $5 meatball sub at Subway but Mcdonalds costs me $7 to get full eating double cheesburgers. And I like shit afterward eating them.
It is said you get what you pay for and
Mcdonalds paying people minimum wages and managers 1/3 less than the 1980's wages make for bad service and many dont habla english to boot.
I can get chicken thighs for $1/lb or a whole chicken for $1.39/lb on sale. I have a large freezer in the gayrage. Beef prices have gone insane
Beef prices have gone insane...
Agree. But "have you seen Costco's broasted chickens?" Hard to beat a 5 dollar 3lb fully cooked chicken. When I get a real meat Jones goin' on though, I'll head off to one of the local Indian Casino's buffets. Load up on at least 5 or 6 different meats that are actually composed of the animals and / or parts they purportedly represent with a tall glass of cranberry juice, livin' large now a days.
jmo.
I stopped eating red meat, almost entirely, about 20 + years ago. I do eat some sweets/cookies (junk), but I do not have high blood pressure. Family members, eat red meat and they do have high blood pressure.
When I do eat red meat it feels like a lump inside. I would almost go full vegitarian and do mainly Italian food and may still do it. I cannot walk down the meat aisle and go out of my way not to eat any mammals. The whole thing is just creepy to me.
You've got a gayrage? Is Michael Sam invited?
If they served real food, I might give a shit.
Since they don't - GOOD!
One of my neighbors had a kid that moved out. She asked if we wanted some Hot Pockets he left.
lol, no thanks. She can just throw them against the back of her toilet.
pods
You'd be throwing them against the back of the toilet if you ate them as well
(that's kind of why I said it like that)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ust_Er_oX5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuQ9mhvQCs
I had a really good blueberry muffin and small cup of coffee at one last week... I hope it was real?
Maybe they should try adding meat to their "burgers".
But But the pink slime has such a tasty "meaty" flavor...
Food inflation?
Whocouldaknowed?
That's right, doesn't count.
McHorror is one of the disgraces of human civilisation. Monsanto another one and the dark FED cartel the original one. Hare Krishna.
There's a Torchy's Tacos (Austinites will know) and a McDs next door to each other a few blocks from home. A giant breakfast taco with fajita meat and 3 real eggs is $3.50 at Torchys, yet the place is empty as dozens of cars line up for the GM/pesticide/HFCS/preservative/roach-parts food at McDonalds. I mean SUVs are hitting each other trying to force their place in the drive-thru line. All I can say is that crap must be addictive, like crack.
Upvote Torchy's
Brushfire for the win.
Hrmm. We have Blakes Lotaburger here. People actually do show up to get their breakfast burritos. But Blake's has an edge. We put green chile on our green chile here, unless we're using red chile. While we can get green chile on a Big Mac, it's not the real deal. It's Bueno or some shit. Blake's uses real chile. The kind that makes your nose run.
Torchy's is overpriced. I go to the real Mexican hole in the wall joints and get a taco for $1
I trust that the meat is as advertised.
It's hard to believe some real food are still cheap but it is at unadvertised small business!! We need some twitter birders to help them out.
I am not sure about Texas but go to most of the SE USA, New Mexico and a few other places and Chick Fil A destrots McDonald's at lunch and dinner time. In places like Charlotte, much of NC, SC, GA and N Florida - McDonalds are closing because Chick Fil A nukes them.
Chick Fil A is more like what Ray Kroc created. Clean, inexpensive, good food, great service, wonderful staff.
McDonalds today are scenes for beatings, wildings, riots and shootings. They wanted the NBA/NFL/Rap crowd and they got it.
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Looks like they'll have to lower prices. The "dollar menu" is too expensive for the masses.
That and raise everyone's pay to $15/hr. A winning combination.
BLEEP BLOOP BLEEP! WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT SIR? DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
$15/hr? Not a problem. It'll lower costs.
LOL! Dr. Smith in using the Robot's lubricating oil in the french fry fryers.
I almost never go into MCD's anymore but what kind of oil do they use on the fries now. Berber King too.
The fries at Chick Fil A are awesome.
I'm Lovin' It™
No other comments necessary. This one is the winner.
I used to be a twice a week McD guy, but the combination of price increase and meat decrease has me eating at the arches less than every other month. It used to be a treat, after a long bike ride, something healthy - now it's what I do when there are absolutely no other options. I never not regret a meal there.
I used to eat there a lot too. Now, it's been twice within the last year. Once was when somebody was trying to be nice and just showed up with lunch, and the other time was trying to find something fast in Cuba, NM on my way up to CO when I was on a schedule. Cuba used to have a reputation for the food either being really good, but you had to wait, or food poisoning, which is why I opted out of trying the Chaco Cafe. Not saying its bad, but I wasn't going to take the chance.
Haven't had as much as a fry or a 'chicken' nugget from them for something like 9 years! And I still smirk every time I drive past a (PACKED) drive-through...
The recovery is so strong that Americans no longer need to buy the cheapest non-food in the world. Bullish!
should lower health care costs in the long run. excellent. mcd should crash and burn
is the meat even real?
What meat?
i wouldn't feed that shit to my dog (if i had one)
It goes straight over my head how anyone in their right mind, could even come close to calling the shit that place serves food! Not that they are the lone ranger in the "fast food" department for selling gut bomb crap!
We used to buy "breakfast" sandwiches there but over the past few years they have become just, well flavorless plasticy and gross. We now just buy ingredients and make it at home.
Fuck the mega corp and their self proclaimed "food" packed with fillers, pink paste, and HFCS offerings.
busy chanting hands up dont shoot
I don't think it's the price, it's what you GET for the price. I don't normally eat there, but on occasion will because the kids still view fries as a treat. The $1.00 hamburgers are the most pathetic thing you will ever eat. It's just whispy bread with a "meat" patty the size of a poker chip. And maybe a limp pickle slice for taste. I rember about 2 month back saying I won't be going back to support that nastyness. The healthier options like a salad are about $6.00 - ant the serving of protein is about 4 ounces. Just can't do it anymore.
Chipotle is way cheaper and you get two meals out of one bowl. Heck the old lady and I split one bowl and one bag of chips which is healtier and fills us both up for cheaper than us going to any fast-food places. When in a hurry Chipotle is where I go, otherwise sit-down place it is for out to eat days. If I have to go through a drive-thru place it's Wendy's as their burgers are still meat.
Sorry to break the illusion, buddy, but chips ain'tn healthy.
Comparatively speaking of course, unless you think McD's fries are a great source of veggies.
What's not healthy about them?
They are chips. Empty calories devoid of anything nutritious.
In Amerika, we have zero problems with lack of calories.
It is the nutrients that are lacking.
pods
The crap they're sprayed with before cooking and the rancid gmo vegetable oil they're fried in...
You can choose a poison for 1$ menu
Pink Slime anyone? These CEO's are out of touch.
I went through the drive in and asked which burgers were 100% beef because I had allergys to wood(cellulose fillers) and pink slime additives. The girl said the meat did not have wood in it. I said well it has a derivative of wood which is the cellulose meat extender. She said let me get my manager. I sat there 5 minutes. Guy gets on the speaker and says It might be best if I try the chicken.
Try it see what happens.
I was behind you. Take the pop quiz inside next time, HotRod. By the way, your driver's side brake light is out.
LOL! The chicken is worse! It is filled with silicon. When the mcnuggets came out many years ago, I always thought they tasted like plastic.
http://www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/whats-really-in-chicken-mcnuggets-s...
The only thing decent there was the fish sandwich but those are the size of a postage stamp and it is probably ground up any kind of fish aka chum.
They just need to spend more money on marketing.
lol, their ads look like the Benneton ads from the 80's.
pods
I often wonder if there's a point in a "capitalist" system where self-interest will simply overwhelm deception through marketing.
I had to go look Bennetton up, not being familiar with them and all. Jesus, are they proud of their shit. $120 for a pre-faded (read: doesn't last as long) denim pants? Fuck that shit. Why the fuck would anybody pay that much to look like a metrosexual faux hobo?
Come on now. Was it really necessary to bring the metrosexuals into this? They wouldn't be caught dead ina Mickie Deez!
I bet Pajama Boy shops there.
They once had a great Formula One team.
Benetton was the apex of mid-eighties mall-chic.
Which is probably why I had never heard of them. I almost never watched Formula One and I was never into mall-chic. Ever.
B....b...but they have the McNopoly game! Park avenue prices for Baltic avenue quality food.
Here's a question, what food chains are going up, any? Is the slack getting picked up by the packaged lunch meat industry? Should I be bullish peanut butter and jelly? Looking around, we're not missing meals.
Growing up as a kid in a divorced household, money was tight. We lived on PB&J sandwiches. But I can tell you that kids today, most of them, have never eaten a PB&J. I dunno what it is. Fear of peanut allergies? Don't remember anyone having peanut allergies 30-40 years ago, either.
PB&Js have fallen WAY off the "every kid in town eats it" list.
Unfortunately it's hard to find jelly this isn't make with HFCS any longer. They're putting that poison in everything today!
I saw a bunch of people at my local park picking up the pecans from the trees and they were pulling up in nice new cars, when I see the bags at costco go for 18 dollars for a medium sized bag of nuts one can understand that the sheeple are waking up
Make your own. It's not hard. I made probably 2 gallons of grape jelly this year. I only got about 2 quarts of strawberry jam this year, though there a bunch of strawberries still coming in a small patch that I have, so I'll get more.
it's not hard to find jelly with regular sugar in it and no HFCS. It's just alot more expensive.
NoDebt - Peanut butter isn't cheap nowadays. Used to love toasted peanut butter and bananas. Yum!
How do you figure "not cheap" for peanut butter? I bought 750g jars last week for $2.99 Cdn. Got 8 jars, now have a whole year's supply for $0.50/week.
Peanuts are cheap, too - 11.75oz. bag for $1.
27 required inoculations using peanut oil adjuvants will create a lot of peanut allergies.
Likely the high in sales times out to just before they started posting the calories on the menu
Their food does not taste like food.
Apparently, somebody likes the taste of warmed up plastic.
And yet, given all the bad news, the MCD candlesticks cannot get any greener.
A Federal Reserve bankster production. Trying to pump ever more asset inflation.
In the meantime their subprime housing loans are being pushed again.
Fog a mirror? Looks like you can afford a house. We have a loan for you.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/201867b2791d450687fbc7b4ece5bbf4/us-regul...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal regulator says government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have reached an agreement with major banks that could expand lending.
The head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, announced the deal Monday at a conference of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Las Vegas. FHFA Director Mel Watt said the deal clarifies conditions in which banks could be required to buy back mortgages they sell to Fannie and Freddie for misrepresenting the loans' risks.
I once puked up a McD's meal after riding my mountain bike too hard too soon after eating. We went back to the same trail a week later, and the remnants of my meal appeared exactly the same as they appeared when I left them. Even the varmints refused to partake. Hell, it's probably still there as-is 15 years later.
I used to stop in every once in a while on the way to work for breakfast, and I have noticed a fairly high amount of inflation in all their prices over the last year. My coffee went up over 100%, and meal itself was up a solid 30-40%. I no longer go there.
"higher wages"
MCD just keeps giving workers raises, raises, and more raises. No wonder so many former middle-managers want to work there.
They should try selling food there, it just might work.
It will get a lot lot lot lot lot worse, until ultra elite start assassinating each other.
Supply chains are breaking down. World trade is going down the drain.
World elite no longer wants to deal with USA and EU elite.
Military has revolted against USA elite. Only assassinations among USA elite solve this issue or voluntary surrender like in 2008 with Lehman, Bear stearns etc
Lets start with you, have you been audited lately? Didn't think so, I'll send Bruno and Rocko over there to check ur finances.
When McDonald's banned their smoking policy, the smell of the food really hit home. The franchise smells like a sweaty armpit and bleach masking the aroma of soybean burgers.
Soybean would actually be healthy. I doubt tht more than 50% of the meat patty is food
OMG as soon as a black guy started running Mcdonalds it started losing money.
Oh man. Diversity.
Say what? When did that happen?
lol, keep watching, just before it goes into bankruptcy they will put a woman in charge
You mean Stan O'Neil who destroyed Merrill Lynch?
I'm going long consumer staples!
*Obviously* the economy is doing so well folks are turning from MCD to Smith & Wollensky, or maybe a Sizzler if the bus doesn't get close to S&W.
Great news for liberty
McSoylent Green is not food...
But what about the dramatic drop in WTI?
Shouldn't that red-herring be reducing the dollar menu appreciably so that the whole family can hunker down and enjoy a plate of chemical laden goodness at a far more reasonable price courtesy of the Saudi Royal family???...
I say Bandar "Bush" needs to up the ante with a few commercial plugs with Ronald McDonald for all the lemmings in the United States to reassure them that that healthy meal at their nearest "I'm lovin' it" will be getting a whole lot cheaper... Let Bandar tell the American people on the floor of the Senate that he expects oil to drop below $60.00 a barrel? That should fix everything -including his own profit margins!
By the way where is that rascal Bandar these dayz???... He's a very hard guy to find since 2012!!!!
The local Chinese folks always choose KFC over MCD. Even with clean toilets.
I still remember in the mid 90s getting 2 big macs for $2... finishing both would about put you in the hospital...
Macdonalds is my kind of place....they throw hamburgers in your face; and tomatoes up your nose and french fries between your toes.....
Soon Macdonalds will be like Detroit and will need a bailout from the government!
Obligatory donk in a McDonalds thread:
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Has anyone else noticed the declining quality of fast casual places like Pei Wei? It is not even the same restaraunt of 3 years ago. They even insult you with this 1, 2, 3 menu.
They've gotta keep their prices suppressed as much as possible. This will inevetably lead to a decline in quality. If you see a 25% increase in prices at the grocery store and only a 10% increase at fast food joints, you know there is some filler being applied.
I used to go for the dollar menu items, but first, they lopped one slice of cheese off the double cheeeezburger and started calling it the McDouble (with two patties and one slice of cheese), then they raised the small fries from $1 to $1.29. Then they raised the price of the McDouble to 1.29 or higher. This was all in about a 2-year span, during which I changed from once a week mickey d's to once a month to now, NOT AT ALL.
I'm generally a healthy eater, so McD's was kind of a foolish treat when I was on the road and/or lazy, but, the food is shit and my home-cooked meals from my garden are far superior.
My last stand was on the breakfast menus. They are still charging a buck for a McSausage Buscuit or Sausage muffin, but they are crap and not even very tasty. Haven't eaten a thing from McDonald's in over two months and hope to never eat there ever again. Same for Puko Bull, Booger King, Kentucky Flea'd Chicken and Pass Windy's.
Death to the corporate poison factories. Long live greasy spoon mom and pop restaurants.
While they're at it, how about a mass bombing of say, 100-200 Walmart's, a la Fight Club. Would be a good start.
Fuck Wall Street. Let all these corporations die nasty deaths and let's start the rebuilding of America from the farm and garden up.
Yeah, and don't buy nails at home depot. Made in China, they bend when you try to pound them into PINE, for God's sake. No lie. I have some to prove my point. With Chinese building materials in wide use, those ghost cities should self-destruct in about another 5-7 years. A collapse we can believe in. Thar's some hope and change for ya.
Nice well rounded rant, you had a good anchor with the anecdotes, but you forgot to mention GMO or the Fed so I'm giving you a 8.9.
Soon the cardboard containers will taste better, and you will be chucking the contents
Too the really value conscious, the McDouble is a god send, because if you add lettuce ($0.20) and Mac sauce ($0.25), for less than $2, you have, to all intents and purposes, a Big Mac (minus the centre bun and the sesame seeds).
Two of these and a diet Coke is $5. My local greasy spoon charges $5 for bacon and eggs in the morning, and they don't include coffee with that!
Added benefit - since it's a special order, you won't get one that's been wilting under the heat lamps for half an hour.
I agree that it's not the best food for you, and I haven't had one of these since June, but when you're on the road in a strange town and in a hurry, it's a quick, reliable meal, and virtually the only reason I visit McD's any more.
Remember this: ALWAYS VOTE W/YOUR FIAT! It is the only practical tool we have left, even with its de minimis value. Refrain from spending that benefits mega corporations, especially the like of McDonalds, purveyors of the worlds most unhealthy foods. Businesses are still subject to the forces of consumers generally so demand better/the best at the most competitive price or GO WITHOUT! This is one the most and last strategies (and leverage) we have left as consumers to influence the future design of OUR world the which TPTB are determined to rule anyway, short of all out revolution. NEEDS NOT WANTS!
My local FOX station says it's because people are eating healthier foods now like, Chipoatley*.