But investors are skeptical that the value meals will drive meaningful sales growth without eroding profits.
Won’t somebody think of the red line?
I used to frequent McDonald’s out of sheer laziness. When combos started running $8-$14, I started packing my lunches.
Same! I’ve lost a good bit of weight from that and soda being so expensive now. It sucks I was forced into it but at least I’m eating better!
im a fast food junkie. i love the shit. covid completely changed the landscape and subsequently my habits. my blacklist is getting longer and longer. quality across the board has plummeted while prices increased.
before covid i only had one entry; wafflehouse
You blacklisted Waffle House?!?
i totally did not want to hate waffle house. i eat garbage all the time. i fight the dog for food. i did not see it coming…
after a few decades of wanting to try it i finally go to waffle house. first of all, no pancakes?! they are fucking strict on that waffle thing. and then what i did order was just barely edible food. just awful.
i grew up haunting dennys, which is now quite expensive for no reason.
In your defense, my wife calls them Awful House, because every single time she’s gone there, there’s been something in her food (hair, bugs, bandaid).
Your wife… she is quite the tolerant lady
Not only did the prices go up but the portions shrank. The whopper is hardly a whopper anymore, its a regular sized patty in a wide bun.
This is the main reason i dont really eat it anymore.
Kinda to your point have you seen that preserved mcDs big mac from the 70s?
That things still looks better than what i can buy at a mcDs today
They are also using this as an excuse to get customers on their data hoovering apps to get access to any of the best deals.
It’s the same with supermarkets, and every single website.
It’s insane, people are like “who cares if they know I buy milk” not realising that actually all the data you’re providing is combined in aggregate and they likely have a very complete profile of everything about you.
The McDonalds app explicitly stated they will measure your intelligence. Needless to say, I deleted my account and uninstalled.
Plot twist: time to uninstall is the intelligence test.
But like, how?
Same as every other corp. A combination of every data point they can get their hands on to build a “consumer” profile on you.
It’s that last point, “Inferences”, that you should focus on.
Me, hungry with $10 in my pocket
Open McDonald’s app
See ad for $5 meals
Click it
All meals are $6 or more
Close app
Make a sandwich
This is becoming a common thing with McDonald’s. The 1,2,3 menu is all $4.50 or more here, too.
They literally making you work to get a coupon and then prolly collect too much data from the app.
Eshitifoed dystopia… There was a time where working man could just go in get a cheap sandwich, get it fast and consistent.
It ain’t fast and it sure as fuck ain’t consistent well besides being const shite.
