It doesn’t help that the prices have increased 142% since 2019
Good fuck McDonalds
A fucking McDouble should have never gone over a buck fifty. Fuck McDonald’s. They’re not paying their employees enough to charge that much.
“We have seen … an increase in people in various markets saying they’re going to be cutting back on purchases of American brands,” they said.
i’m lovin’ it
Oh how the turns have tabled.
TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.
The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increase—going from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.
These increases exceed the general average for inflation calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that prices went up by about 21.5 percent between the end of 2019 and March 2024.
For at least since the pandemic I can get a better burger and fries from an actual restaurant, with probably three or four different places to choose from, for less. McDonald’s is good in a particular way, but the two main things they had going for them were convenience and cost. With cost blown away the convenience isn’t really enough to carry the day a lot of the time, even when I’m in a rush.
And they did it them fucking selves.
Yeah, not that I used to eat fast food a lot but with prices as high as they’ve gotten I just can’t justify it. It’s garbage food that’s more expensive than sit-down options. Everyone has a phone, so with 10 minutes of pre planning you can order from anywhere and not have to sit there and wait which makes McDonald’s lose ground in convenience too.
Pricing is about the only place McDonald’s could win, but they’re too greedy and we all know it.
Yup, they totally kept jacking prices up to get as much as they can from the consumer.
McDonald’s execs are not featured in this video but you can bet they were not sitting idly by when others were getting “as much as the consumer can absorb” read: keep increasing prices until sales increases stall.
Nope, just no, screw them.
It all depends where you live, but I can go to a proper sit-down restaurant, one of the cheaper ones, but still a sit-down restaurant that actually cooks real food, and spend as much or less than I would at McDonald’s.
I can even get a pint of beer with a sit down meal for not far off the cost of McDonalds.
fuck the shitty us empire.
we are right in not wanting to be bullied by that shitty country anymore.
I think you’re wrong.
There is no ‘anti-American sentiment’ only an anti-Trump sentiment.
After he’s gone our European ‘leaders’ will be happy little vasals and bootlickers again.I dunno about that. This status quo was created because America came out of WWII smelling like roses. All of Europe was rebuilding and so American prosperity of the time was basically like being the one only slightly scorched house on a bombed block. It’s been long enough that the countries in question aren’t in need of leaning on the one stable currency.
This could be the push needed to equalize the world stage and break off of old habits. Like take Canada for example. Food self sufficiency in Canada was always a concern. That’s why there was a tarriff on US Dairy, because Canada wanted to retain domestic self sufficiency in one of it’s food production spheres. That issue persisted through other sectors but there wasn’t a strong political motive to make that shift. The government wasn’t called to protect and incentivize strong domestic production to a great extent because the US generally has a better growing year in the south. To not have food security however is a weakness in Canadian’s self determination if things go bad. Now that things have gone bad structure will be put in place and protected meaning a semi-permanent loss of market for American interests.
What Trump has proven is American volitillity in it’s government structure and voting block and nobody will want to tie a shoddy investment around their ankles. In fact some might take it as the opportunity to cut loose a problematic ally.
Since you mention WW2 and Canada here are some things they never talk about or will admit.
The metafor of ‘scorched’ doesn’t apply to the US in WW2.
Even during the war they boomed from the war economy, jobs were abundant and companies profits doubled at the time.
And like today the US profitted from a war far from their unharmed country.
They also joined it purely out of self-interest.
It really angers me when people say they liberated us or wanted to defeat the nazis.
Fact is the Soviets defeated the nazis, 85% of Germans died fighting on the eastern front.
The Americans joined royally late in the European theatre after the battle for Stalingrad which was a decisive battle that ensured the Germans would eventually lose.
They were happy seeing European economic competition destroyed by war and the main reason they came in was to make sure they got a part of the loot.
Otherwise the Soviets would be at the Atlantic shores in no time and get it all.
And this all by themselves without the help of any ‘allies’.
That’s when we became vasals, we were not ‘liberated’.
While the United States had little interest in collecting reparations from Germany, it was determined to secure repayment of the more than $10 billion it had loaned to the allies over the course of the war. Also they profitted from the Marshal plan after that.
Then Bretton-Woods which made us dependent on the dollar and we all became part of the NATO extortion racket.
They saw us as if we were another country they conquered. Treating the population like shit with many cases of rape, even more in enemy countries, Italy or Germany.
Much worse was their total disregard for human life and the collateral dammage.
To them hat was a cynical benefit, again destroying our infrastructure and people.
Countless excessive bombings with mass casualties.
A few weeks ago there was the annual remembrance of one of those bombings in Belgium,15km from where I live.
Americans were suppposed to bomb a factory and again made a ‘mistake’.
As a result of their callous attitude 1000+ homes were destroyed, 937 people killed, 200+ of them children.And ‘getting rid of the nazis’ is also not the case.
On the contrary, they actually saved plenty of them when they were sure the war was won.
It was already known the Soviets/communists would be their next chosen enemy and fascists were a good partner in this.
US and Brits ratted out the communist resistance to the nazis after they served their purpose and got executed.
Not so for nazis after the war.
The Soviets pursued denazification zealously. In the west only a handful got the death penalty at the Nuremberg show.
The bulk of them got rehabilitated and kept important political and economic positions.
All was forgiven.
Even during the end of the war it became clear.
German forces did relative little against the allies but kept fighting a lost war on the eastern front to hold off the Russians long enough for the Americans to take their part, also if the Germans would’ve kept Western Europe there would be no one to surrender to that would
Countless nazis and warcriminals got saved trough the so-called Ratlines orchestrated by the fascist Croatian Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović in cooperation with the United States Counterintelligence Corps (CIC)
Not only the well known ‘useful scientists’ from Operation Paperclip but the worst of the worst, like Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Croatian Dictator Ante Pavelić, Léon Degrelle and Claus Barbie.
The last one later recruted by the CIC to help extreme-right regime changes in South America.
An entire SS division composed largely of Ukrainians who arrived in 1947, with many later emigrating to Canada.
These were awful people, guilty of murdering 35000 jews in one day and plenty warcrimes.
And their fuhrer Bandera got to live in West Berlin under a different identity without any consequences. Until the Russians found him and rightfully put a bullet in his head.
The immigration of fascist Ukranians in your country was also deliberate.
Many of the earlier immigrants (ironically many Ukranians) were very left-wing and started demanding horrible commie things such as workers rights and unions.
The government couldn’t have that and this was their cure.
The consequences are still visible today.All this to say the US was never our friend regardless of who’s in charge.
Also clear in recent years in the Nuland-Pyatt call where she said “fuck Europe”.
Or the Biden “there will be no more Nordstream” and the following terrorist act that made us depending on their 8x more expensive and polluting fracking gas which is killing our economy.
I really hope Europe breaks with the US but they take all these things without a peep. Our leaders are sold-out and continue their post WW2 vasal role.
They want to cling to the sinking ship while they should be looking east, the time of US hegemony is over.
The orange clown is doing the world a big favor in hastening that and his actions may indeed get some countries to seek better partners. We don’t owe them anything.
There is no anti-american sentiment, just an overwhelming pro-genocide sentiment within empire.
I stopped going there ever since they cause the capture of Luigi.
I realized how far they go for anything.
I stopped when it became obvious they were price gouging their customers. None of their food is worth the price and it hasn’t been for probably close to a decade.
I stopped when they were proudly supporting zionazi scum
As a Canadian in Japan, McDonald’s is one brand I had a difficult time saying goodbye to after your Shit president threatened our sovereignty, because I genuinely used to have a good experience everytime I went. Clean store, polite staff, decently cheap food, and cool collabs with Japanese IP like Pokemon and Mario.
I’m sad my kids don’t get to enjoy a treat there every now and then, but fuck the USA right now and anybody who supports the shitty administration.
As an American, yeah I agree with you, fuck the USA
Yeah if you’re cool with torturing and murdering animals, supporting genocide, destroying the planet… McD’s is pretty sweet! Especially for the kids!
Do you ever worry that by calling everything genocide you’re going to undermine the seriousness of the term?
Why would you subject yourself to living in Japan as a Canadian with kids though?
Because I have Japanese heritage and it’s awesome here. Wtf kind of question is that?
Every Japanese I have met in Canada (mostly in Toronto and Montreal), that had young children, say that it’s very unwelcoming in Japan. And if you or your children are mixed, you face racism too. Again anecdotal, the number of these people I have talked to was only three, but they all had the same opinion. This included a couple that went back to try again a second time but then ended up in Montreal again.
Use the Spell Card “Monster Reborn” to ressurect the fucking Dollar Menu
Fuck this genocidal disinfo.
Imperial news is a mouthpiece for imperial capitalism.
I haven’t been to McGenocide in a long while
Have they tried SUING People who ARENT eating there?
That, maybe. But hear me out:
A Double Quarter Pounder meal is now roughly $11-12 dollars. They don’t put the prices on the menu half the time, and the people in the drive-through never give you the price. They just say “pull around.”
Maybe don’t run a shitty business that’s overpriced.
A couple of weeks ago I was moving to a new house. I woke up early to move a load of things, and on the way was a McDonald’s. I stopped in because it was convenient and got an Egg McMuffin with a hash brown and an OJ. It was $9. $9!
You can’t charge outrageous prices and then go, “Man, why aren’t people showing up?”
I can get a burger and fries from several local shops for less than McDonalds. The quality is better and there is more food in the bag.
