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McDonalds Implodes, Reports Worst US Sales In Over A Decade
If one ignores all traditional, staple indicators of a growing economy, such as stable (not plummeting) crude demand, stable (not plummeting) holiday spending and stable (not plummeting) McDonalds comp store sales, then indeed the US economy has "decoupled" from the rest of the world, and those who wish to demonstrate the same intellectual capacity as Tim Geithner, will welcome you to the (latest non-)recovery.
And yet for those, who are leery of seasonally-adjusted government data (showing soaring low-wage jobs offset by crashing employment in the energy sector and M&A synergies which mysteriously are never captured), or sentiment surveys and confidence polls (of Wall Street executives and government workers), here is the latest data from McDonalds. Showing the worst US comp store sales in nearly 12 years at -4.6%, one does wonder if following America's inability to even pay for sub-$1 meals, mass starvation will follow?
McDonalds US comp store sales:
McDonalds global comp store sales:
And for all those who are blissfully ignoring the impact of the soaring USD on corporate profits, here is a wake up call from McDonalds:
The following items are expected to negatively impact fourth quarter results
- $0.07 to $0.09 per share due to strengthening of the U.S. dollar against nearly all foreign currencies
But... but... lower oil prices!?
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Cannot understand why, that place has good food and a great atmosphere.
pods
Micky D's is imploding because the economy is so good and jobs/wages/work hours so abundant that its former customers/emplyees are ordering take-out from Ruth's Chris.
mend the fence. the sheep are leaving the feed lot. i'm long border collies...
Constructions starts in the US are down substantially, hence less need for portable toilets, hence less raw materials for Mc Donalds food, hence lower sales. QED
I wonder if a McD's was torched in Ferguson? Surely that would have been good as a write-off at least.
Some might call that a good start but I disagree. Violence doesn't solve anything. The food served is the write off.
You missed the real reason sales are down. Everyone is so flush with money they are now eating at better restaurants. Or not.
Of course, the future is so bright that we no longer have to work, just let the Fed Print everything we need, LOL>
I never understood why anyone would eat that shit (Pink slime et al)? For me, I would arther starve than eat at Mickey D's...
Fuck you. The egg, steak, and cheese bagel is pretty damn tasty. Enough calories for the whole day too!
sir, will you have the cirrhosis sauce with your bagel?
Every 'meal' should include a syringe full of insulin for dessert.
Beef is the canary in the coalmine gold should have been.
McMicrocrystalline cellulose???
Guys
Start thinking out of the box. MCD is trying to beat the wage increase. Can't due that in a ramping EPS environment, therefopre sales had to fall.
Fo shizzle...dup
i know this may sound raycyiss....but is taco bell knocking the cover off it?
si or ni?
Taco Bell has been reclassified as Health Care.
They found it to be just as effective as an enema in preparing 40 year old men for their first visit with Dr. Stinkfinger.
pods
no but could I get an extra side of Mcslime for my 99 cent cheezburger I found under the car seat while looking for change, the receipt said last year but it looks fresh to me!
Shut.It.Down
i got answer... just look amount of price increase then you have the answers, in france you are now about 8.50€ for menu with coca, hamburger ans potatoes.... this is as expensive as a nice small restaurant...
be fair, they have to equip all those touching screen interface to fire those lost youth workers... next step, chinese robotics to assembly the burgers... and price up to 10€ for basic menu.
expected timeline, about 2020.
You know times are tough when Micky-D's nunbers are in the toilet considering it has been the mainstay of American's diets for decades... Understandable though when the price of a "value meal" is approaching $10 USD...
Cheap cheap shit is good whereas expensive cheap shit is unsellable.
McDonalds needs to institute a ramen noodle menu.
Notice a Walgreens was tourched.
Any type of useful busnesses are tourched by the animals.
Are Americans 4.6% less obese than last year? Well, then they're strapping on the 'ol feed bag somewhere, just not at Mickey D's.
Oh, and of course, "I'm lovin' it!" <--- obligatory
Chick-fil-A is much better. Bet their numbers are up. Their lines wrap around the buildings most days.
No kidding. That's my only reason for avoiding the place, but those damn chicken sandwiches keep drawing me in.
Chick Fil A should not EVER be mentioned in the same paragraph with any other shit-slopping, fast food cesspool.
The food is so good there that even the lesbians and deviants could not get it shut down with their protests over the Christian owner espousing his beliefs.
These chain-food places are ALL garbage, and frankly they should be outlawed. They are worse for your health than smoking.
We should not be relying on corporate conglomerates for our food. Incorporation is a privilege, not a right. They ought to be regulated so that it's economically infeasible to produce the kind of absolute fishbait shit that McD's, Chick-Fil-A, Wendy's, and all the rest of them are pumping out like so much soylent green.
If you're going to go all dictatorship on our asses, why not also ban GMOs, food aditives and artificial colors/sweeteners?
Then it's time to lynch the banksters and media execs, the MIC and the health care industrial complex.
Anybody left?
No debt, always good for a laugh, tks
People around the world are catching on to how bad MacDonalds really is for their health. Recently a friend visiting from Asia commented on just how disgustingly fat the average american is, and now understands why the USSA hires Al Queda mercs to fight, since the average teenage american is too unfit for battle.
The literal translation for the Japanese term for westerner/American is "smells like butter" ( bata-kusai).
Of course, sadly, Japanese smell like irradiated sashimi, now, so...
I lived and worked in Japan for a time in the early '90s and there was a McDonalds in my neighborhood I would periodically visit. Always bought the dbl cheeseburger. One day I stopped in and the dbl cheeseburger was off the menu replaced by a dbl 'hottie doggy'. I asked for my usual dbl cheeseburger but was told they couldn't sell me one, only a dbl hottie doggy. Like wtf? Apperently they forgot how to make them, what the price would be, and where to find the wrapper. Of course the "I'm Lovin' It" slogan wasn't around back then. The slogan was "We'll Sell You What We Want To When We Want To".
Just didn't have the same ring, so they changed it.
Good thing you didn't ask for a quarter pounder with cheese.
Hey, do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France?
Well i guess you best wake him up.
Me réveiller quand la merde frappe le ventilateur.
Still cannot figure put why non-Asians give Asians a pass on this type of thinking and language.
Japanese are incredibly pointed in their mannerisms (all Asians are).
They coined that term because to their olfactory senses, in close proximity on subway system, Americans (and westerners, generally), really do smell like butter.
...and WTF is wrong with butter ???? It sure as hell is better than tofu and soy sauce, unless of course it's fermented.
"Better than?"
Not for your health, it isn't. Tofu is about the healthiest food around. And soy sauce is a condiment, not a staple.
However, for Americans, butter is a staple.
You've got it backwards, soy sauce is the staple since they use it in everything, Tofu, not so much.
Dofu makes you into a girl. Look at Asian boys. No muscle mass, short, due to no protein.
They have the money, now. No excuse.
Tofu is also plant-based estrogen. That's why the Jap boys look more like girls.
Selective vocalisation. Asians think it is ok to blurt out anything about non-Asians, but if non-Asians say a peep the Asians freak out.
I think you guys have the wrong impression - I LIVE IN ASIA.
Why do you hold yourself to a standard but allow others to violate that standard?
Answer:
Politically Correct Anti-White bullshit.
So why do we tolerate their behaviour but modify ours in their presence?
Leraconteur: All foreigners stink due to the different diets they have. We can't smell our own because we basically eat similar stuff but we can smell foreigners because their staple food is different to ours. Those who don't each much dairy can smell those who do. We smell whatever underlying food staple is in their diet. Personally, I haven't noticed this phenomenon. I've only read about it so who knows? - maybe that book I read was lying. Need a traveller to confirm or deny what I just said.
The smell is not the point, it is the racist language and lack of selective verbalisation (mastered by the median 5 year old in most nations) that is at issue.
I repeat:
Why everyone gives Asians a pass on their ""pointed mannerisms'", AKA racist language and rude attitudes, is beyond me.
Cold HOT truth!
Well when McD is imploding you sure as hell know something shitty is just around the corner. It's not like sit down restaurants are serving quality food. I doubt quality of food has anything to do with this mess.
McNuggetry this way comes.
It's a combination of the economy and CrapDonald's shitty food. Some of the better burger joints near my work and home are doing fine.
Cheap food and EBTs and they're still losing? They fucked up big time.
Bravo to that. McDonalds food is not fit for human consumption. There is a line around the block here at B Good burgers. 11 bucks for burger and fries. Not exactly gourmet food, but good burgers made with beef. McDonalds is made with that processed slime. They desserve to go bankrupt for what they attempt to pass off as food.
Yeah, I prefer the ma & pa "no - name" burger shops. Once you've had a real burger you don't want the cardboard shit any more. Costs 2 - 3 times more? Who cares? Any idiot can make something cheaper if they start leaving out vital functions ...
"It's not like sit down restaurants are serving quality food."
You clearly are going to the wrong restaurants.
Oh wait, you live in a flyover state? Ah, sorry about that. Hard to get good food out there in the high-obesity hinterland.
Everyone's eating at the local school cafeteria to get Moochelle's menu delights. McDs might as well change to that fine cuisine too if they want to please the customers.
The one thing that even I, as a pretty true-to-form libertarian, will always defend, is the subsidized school lunch.
America is so screwed that 1 in 4 children go to bed hungry, and I'm all for a 40 cent to 60 cent school lunch that gets carbs, protein, fruits/veggies AND fortified milk into the stomachs of kids, at least once a day, no matter how unlucky/irresponsible their parents may be.
It's an imperfect system, but why take such a basic thing/necessity away from poor kids who need actual nutrition when the cost of the entire program is less than a couple of Navy Ships.
And you already have 5 downvotes! There is no hope for this fucking country. A hearty Fuck You to all the heartless ideologues who downvoted that statement.
What's happening to all that EBT money, free rent, and free utilities? Why are their kids going hungry? If they qualify for free lunches, they qualify for EBT. Your anger should be directed at the parent(s) who use that money for drugs and alcohol, not those who hold them accountable.
We can't punish the parents the way you want to (rightfully) without starving their kids - literally.
In many places in the USSA now, a school lunch with milk, fruits/veggies and a protein, is the only substantive meal many kids will get in a 24 hour period.
How do we force their parents to be model citizens, or even non-criminal ones, when they, in many cases, don't even care about, let alone love, their OWN children?
Have you SEEN those lunches ??? You speack from total ignorance. That's not healthy, and nor is most of it food. Even pigs would disdain the slop that passes for the Wookie's school lunch program.
Homogenized, ultra-pasturized skim milk is VERY bad for you, no better than sugar water with no nutrients left in it. Overcooked vegetables and brown wilted lettuce have few nutrients left, and what the hell is that brown glop that's supposed to be meat or potatoes ?
Honey, let the kids learn to make their own lunches or starve; it would be kinder than the school lunch program.
"Your anger should be directed at the parent(s) who use that money for drugs and alcohol, not those who hold them accountable."
When all the parents will be perfect, the world will be a paradise. Meanwhile, you don't let kids go hungry. That is, unless you are a shitbag.
Your ignorance is astounding. Moochelle has nothing to do with the free lunch program. It was around long before her lard ass shuffled into the White House.
What she did was force the schools to stop serviing food that the kids would eat.
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/school-lunches-6.jpg
skipjack - I'm not claiming those lunches are ideal.
But milk, a protein, some fiber, even if there is some crap in there and not the highest/ideal quality ingredients, beats NOTHING OR DORITOS & GRAPE FLAVORED DRINK.
The milk alone provides protein, calcium, Vitamin D, riboflavin, niacin, etc. and can help prevent some diseases in what are otherwise literally malnourished kids.
i had a regular cheeseburger from McD the other day, wasnt bad. denver airport
"wasn't bad"
YOU are part of the problem. Stop eating that crap.
A fat girl served me in McDonald's at lunch time today.
She said “sorry about the wait.”
I said “don't worry dear, you might lose it eventually.”
McD's is black run, so only white losers and black filth eat there.
Gee whiz, I wonder why?
Could it be that the last Census Bureau data showed that one out of every two Americans qualifies as poor?
Could it be that the latest study out of Rutgers University showed that almost one-half of the new jobs supposedly created cannot be verified?
And people without jobs and money, cannot even buy at McDonald's, long the mainstay of the lower working classes.
Wow
Double wow to anybody that would pay $3 for a sliced McApple.
Does the price include the antidote?
L.M.F.A.O
I may Bite if it corrects to its realistic price in the 60's. The poor management and toxic beef thingy in Asia should have warned McDs investors of super-sized losses to come.
No kidding. I can now eat at In 'n' Out for less money than McDonalds, and the food is WAY better.
Way better than what....?
McNuggetry is black magic applied to pink slime. It can't be quantified (or digested).
What do McD and starvation have in common?
No nutrition
One can kill you and the other leaves you hungry
we pink-slimed some folks..........
we supersized some squealing fat pigs folks
I have a farmer tag an organically raised Hereford and process it for me.
He teaches local kids how to raise healthy animals/livestock, too.
It's a healthy steer each year, that is about 1100 lbs on the hoof, and yields about 470 lbs of flash frozen beef in cryovac wrap that can last a while.
Cost = average of $7 a pound, but this runs gamut from hamburger to porterhouses to NY Strips.
Once anyone eats this beef, they will never want to bother with store nought beef again, which is pale in color and has no true beef flavor.
Starvation brings about a stronger immune system and nutrition through utilizing fat reserves; duh
Starvation brings about a stronger immune system and nutrition through utilizing fat reserves; duh
Zero fucking McDonald's in #Eritrea
'Long pig' is cheaper than cows.
But Long Pig is much more dangerous than Slow Elk. Must be taken at a distance.
pods
chinese robotics not ready yet to mangle the dead blacks kiddo to chop en in mc blackchickens
who the fuck eats that crap. even the " free crowd" shit doest not want this crap
would you eat at McD if your EBT card lets you get the best steak and lobster for free? (free as in somebody else paid for it)
If you are referring to food stamps (SNAP) you would have to prepare that steak and lobster yourself, since hot food or food eaten in the store doesn't qualify, and your food money wouldn't go far on it, considering the average SNAP amount a poor person gets per month is $133. Dolt.
That's average, you dolt. Some low income workers get SNAP at reduced rates. That means those not working at all are getting more.
FYI fast food joints are now accepting EBT. More corporate welfare. Not only do we have to pay for their food now, but they don't even need to cook it. You get to pay for their CrapDonald's
http://www.yellowpages.com/san-diego-ca/fast-food-places-that-accept-ebt
At least your avatar is a Brain!
Finally some good news for a change!
For every $1 you spend at McDonalds on their toxic food, you probably have to spend $5 to $10 in medical costs. Toxic food is too expensive people are realizing.
Shitting on McD seems to be the "soup-du-jour". But in reality the whole industry is serving up carcinogen-ridden-toxic-poison. The quality of meat doesn't change because you sit in a booth and pay $30 for your meal and $15 for a glass of wine lol.
McNuggets are just ground chicken breast, McD's beef is just ground steak and McRibs are just ground pork tenderloin.
Not.
If you eat at any restaurant odds are you are you're getting a gut full of GMOs.
Good.
Ever notice how a McDonald's kitchen sounds like an emergency room?
The multiplier effect in full song
Everybody's so rich now they've all moved up-market in their restaurant choices.
Yeah like White Castle!
Like Friskies Fancy Feast. (Don't laugh, It's probably better for you than McDonalds food)
I was almost lured into buying the Salmon and sweet potatoes variety of cat food. Hell, it was even gluten free.
Fun fact: Canned pet food is "fit for human consumption" and hunger does make the best sauce.
Funny you should mention canned pet food. I checked the labels and actually realized that pet food contains much less crap compared to what is being sold to humans in the supermarkets... so you really are on to something there.
That's because what we feed our pets is regulated, unlike what gets fed to humans via corporate GMO
I've wondered if the growing popularity of dogs has increased cost for McDonald's tier "meat".
GMO food is tested, whereas your 'organic'(whatever the fuck that is) is not.
Quit being so stupid.
our dog would not eat White Castle burgers, even if we took them out the carboard serving coffin.
"I'm loving it"
damn...beat by seconds....
its my high performance keyboard....
Anagram for "Ilin vomit."
http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/1918624/81905415.jpg
We pink slimed fewer folks this quarter.
"Do you want fries with that?" No just the ketchup packets.
imploding like an big mac comming out the other end
"I'm lovin' it!"
Bye bye McDonalds and not thank you for your to expensive genetically modified crap
Fuck you very much
great comedy from Jim Gaffigan about McDonald's shite in general...enjoy the laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDTfEhChgw
Hillarious! Opening a Mc'D's in another country should be considered an act of war.
when it comes to building empire, dumping a McD's in a foreign country is what we do. We will teach them fuckers about democracy...one big mac at a time.
Seriously, someone is going to have to explain where the (even pink slime) beef went.
Thye should change their name to White Castle or Krystal, their junk has shrunk so much.
For 7 bucks a "value meal"......gimme a fucking break.
They stop taking EBT payments?
Only way they stop, is if the uncle sam stops handing them out..
Riots impact on sales is what?
what apple pay and free wifi can't increase sales... LOL
2 Quarter pounder meals will set you back $17 now...nuff said.
Seriously! Fuck I have not been in a McDonalds for 5 years or maybe longer. For $17 you can get a really good meal at most independant places...I mean really good. Maybe they just priced themsleves out of the market.
>> $17 now
I can go a year or so without hitting a fast food place. I only do it in emergencies. I recently helped someone move which was a significant day. Three and a half hour drive down, fully load my 16X7 trailer and one ton truck, then drive the chit back up three and a half hours. Big day for an old fuck like me. I was too sick in the morning to eat my breakfast and too busy loading to eat luch. On the way home I was starving and really needing something. I was interstate driving and the usual suspects were all that was available. As famished as I was, I still couldn't do McDs or the King. I finally decided to risk a Wendy's. Actually, it wasnt' terrible, considering it was emergency food unlike my usual low fat fare. Anyway, to the point, I sas astounded, my lowest low end offering ended up costing me $7.50. I don't get out much so this was quite the surprise. I don't think I'd do well city living anymore.
McDogmeat might implode, but their burgers will hang tough and be around for years, intact and unscathed.
Ya when they are digging up our fossil remains they will say what the fuck are these things.
Can you imagine that archeology paper? Worshiping a clown deity by consuming soy patties mixed with cow lips to the refrain "frieswiththat."
#pattiesgetthelastlaugh
Talked to a high ranking guy at Continental and he seriously said that McD is in such bad shape, it may not be around in 5 years. Not my opinion, but wow, that would be a whopper if it happened. Wut? Did somebody say whopper?
The Whopper, back in the early 1960's, was to die for, metaphorically.
The Whopper in 2014 is to die for literally.
I agree with most of the posters here.....declining sales are more likely a sign of general discontent with the poor quality of McDonald's, than a surefire indicator of economic implosion....(not that I think the economy is in good shape by any means)
>> likely a sign of general discontent with the poor quality
Low quality disuades Americans from buying something? I'd never noticed that phenomenon.
McDonald's profit dropped because of huge increase of employment costs. As we all know most new jobs was created just in this company... :)
With most American families dining on lobster, truffles and filet mignon courtesy of EBT, who wants to eat Pink Slime and compressed chicken dicks, beaks and claws?...
But it is 100% real chicken!
"Compressed Chicken Dick" - Didn't they open for the Dead Kennedys in 1992?
Yeah, whatever, Dow will still be @ 18k by the end of the session -
And we'll be told by CNBC it would have been 18200 otherwise Zzzzz
The fed should just monetize hamburgers.
Ill gladly pay you Tuesday... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrUbFZdiZxM
Just temporary. McDonalds will come storming back with the McRib
McRib was available all month already. Maybe they pull a BK and bring back something that was available before I was born?