McDonalds was just trying to get ahead of what they thought was an inevitable wage increase so they had an excuse to price hike.
Damn, you let people live like this? -Ronald
Macca’s like other modern corporations raises the prices to “what the market will support” in order to maximise profit.
They raise the price until sales drop, then back off a bit. It’s about exploiting people’s desire for macca’s fast food to the greatest extent possible.
And you call them "Macca's" like they're your friend or something.
In any large city only idiots and tourists buy McDonalds now with any regularity.
Like, it's like once or twice A year at most, otherwise there are way, way better options for the same price point all around.
McDonald's is fast. That's all they have going for them and the only reason I ever go. When I only have 3 minutes to pull over and have hot food put in the car.
Dude, this definitely depends on the McDonald's. Just like the quality of the food, too.
Their Happy Meal, and I hate them for this, is wonderful on a roadtrip with kids. Box for food, then it’s a box for the trash, and the kids get a stupid toy to play with for a few hours that they think is wonderful because “new”.
Having worked there right after uni, I refuse to eat there. Not because of the food quality (it's not great) but because of the awful way that they treat employees and their acceptance of abuse towards employees from customers.
Welp there you have it folks.... guess I'm an idiot 🤷
Admitting it to yourself is the first step on the road to recovery. Well done, friend! I wish you continued success on your path.
Fortunately for them, America's mostly idiots nowadays
I don't know if this is the same in much of the world. But McDonalds burger patties in South Africa started with the global recipe where the patty is mostly soy bean with some beef products, to fully beef with no soy.
They did this because in South Africa, we don't have massive subsidies on soy and we have lots of cheap grazing land for beef, so beef is a lot cheaper here than soy bean.
Instead of dropping the price, they increased the price, saying that they now have a "100%" beef patty. At least it tastes much better than the soy plastic patty.
Remember these corporations will compromise on anything to make more profit.
Ah, so that’s why their burgers really don’t taste good (not that they were ever great) and are now so much less filling.
That was always the plan. Remember, everything they said about Socialism came true under Capitalism.
That is how it always goes.
Everyone kind of just ignores that runaway inflation is happening anyway and votes Democrat and Republican again.
There has not been any inflation that justifies a x2 increase in price
What can I say?
Stop voting for capitalists, man. You have to step off the Democratic and Republican train if you want meaningful change.
Except we can't do that right now when we're literally fighting fascism.
I used to tell everyone to vote third party, then Trump arrived... Ever since I've been voting for the dem clowns to keep the dangerous, insane people away from power as best I can.
I consider America broken right now. We can't stop to fight for ideals until we fix it. Fixing it means de-radicalising the republican party by making them lose elections and re-structure away from fascism.
Fixing it means de-radicalising the republican party by making them lose elections and re-structure away from fascism.
You have 40 years of history to definitively prove to yourself that voting Democrats fixes nothing.
But sure.
Go for it. Maybe in another 40 years the country will be so terribly broken that none of them wwill want it anymore.
Voting Democratic Party might not fix anything, but it won’t make things worse.
Unlike you who supports Trump and fascism. Don’t worry, you won’t be saved. Realize that.
we're literally fighting fascism.
Have you seen how pro Palestinian protestors are treated?
Have you crossed the thin blue line?
Fascism IS here. We are only voting for our preferred flavor.
Got any information on how to do that that is actually actionable or helpful?
Inflation. Price gouging. Under capitalism its a distinction without a difference.
The person who came closest to being elected as a third party candidate was a racist former VP running on a platform of supporting slavery no matter what SCOTUS said.
And the person you want me to vote for has sat on his ass for the last four years watching the cost of groceries double and triple, gasoling costs pass the $3 mark permanently even in the poorest parts of the country, housing costs nearly doubled, and written blank checks for other countries' wars, even if said country was openly committing genocide.
Oh, and what did he do when Roe was repealed? He used it to fundraise. That's it.
Your candidate is a fascist, and does not care about your wage slavery.
Yeah, the alternative is worse on every point. I thought you were going to reply talking about advocating for third parties down ballot which can actually change something but nope, back to the amnesiac take of telling people to give the presidential seat to the 30%+ who vote straight republican
Can I have some genocide sauce with your comment please?
You may.
In fact, Genocide Joe is up for reelection, and if the Republican candidate wins, don't worry, the policies on Israel will be exactly the same.
You get genocide no matter who you pick.
Well thats the "joke". Troll bots pretend biden is "pro" genocide but trump not etc.
More like “remember when the USA tripled their money supply and sent it all to foreign countries”?
What does this have to do with your failed worldview? Do you know what it takes to recover from a pandemic? Money is the root of evil, but don't think it's not a tool used by heroes.
"Love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" is the passage you're misquoting. Money is just a tool, neither good nor evil in itself.
You mean how the USA has to create massive amounts of federal bonds because of the house of cards that is the stock market?
Where do you think all this printed money goes? It doesn’t go to the world or to anyone who needs it, it’s all going to banks because they are required to leverage a certain amount of assets. And the banks fund MAGA shitlord politics which you seem to love to parrot.
Is this exaggeration or did they actually do this?
The prices are more than doubled over the last 10 years, tripled in some areas. Their prices went up three times faster than inflation.
I think that in the past they have lobbied against minimum wage increases but they pulled their lobbying for it in 2019 and have changed directions. Not that McD's is like a bastion for workers rights or anything, but just looked it up and that's what I found.
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/mcdonalds-anti-minimum-wage-restaurant-workers-tips
While true, you have to remember their supply costs increased too, huge knockoff effects.
McDonald's is a public company you can see all the data yourself. Basically they did as well in 2023 as they did in 2019 from an operating income percentage. Meaning taking into account all sales and stuff (revenue) and subtracting all expenses like the cost of food, wages, taxes, real estate, whatever (expenses) the remaining bit is profit. And that value is the same per dollar earned as 2019. It's less than many years prior too.
Which means they corrected properly for the economic climate they're in.
Lol. So you're saying that we should cut them some slack since the shareholders need to live on the same money they were making in 2019?
Not even considering how wrong price gouging is, is the tweet a bad rephrase of something mc Donald's announced?
Based on the tweet alone:
Mc Donald's said: "Wage raises cause price increases. But not all price increases are caused by wage raises".
Everyone heard: "If there's a price increase, it can only be due to wage increases"
I'm all for boycotting mc Donald's, but if we're going to call them out, let's call them out on something that can't be rebutted with basic reading comprehension skills.
Now, let the downvotes begin!
I don't get the price thing. I can buy two bigmacs or two quarter pounders for just over $6. The minimum wage here is more than $14 an hour. It's really not that drastic of a price.
I know it's not the cause of the price increase, but to be fair, they do pay more now than they ever did. And by a decent margin.
they do pay more now than they ever did.
That's literally how inflation is supposed to work. Everyone should be making more today than five years ago.
Restaurant labor is max 30% of the costs. So in theory even doubling everyone's wages in the restaurant should only create a 30% cost increase.
Nah
They make more money from real estate. They can pay more, and charge less.
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