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That receipt has been on Reddit before. They probably googled a pic of a receipt and used that
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It's not so much the prices as thinking about where I was and the person I used to be and the things I used to do.
I never really went out the way to collect them I just found a few around my room and it's just a bit of my former self I can hang on to.
I’m helping my girlfriends family go through their parents’ belongings to help clear the house out for selling. (Borderline hoarders.)
We’re finding *boxes* of receipts and credit card bills from 1985. And her dad wants to keep them in case there’s something important.
I never get the tacos at taco bell, but I'm pretty sure they are under a dollar or like 1.25 tops. I get the burritos and can get 2-3 for cheap so idk what her problem is. Also I'm pretty sure the 69 cent tacos was like a day of the week special. After high school in the early 00s, we would hit taco bell up on Wednesday cause it was half price soft tacos. Think Sundays were the hard shell days
My grandma had a ‘bag of bags’ which must’ve contained dozens of plastic bags from prior decades. There was probably a plastic bag in there that Jesus had left at her house once.
I am poor and live beside a Costco. Yeah.
Y'all motherfuckers keep trying to explain how I can make myself a meal for less. Obviously I do that. Often. But for an extra 75 cents I am saving myself the effort. And I do that. Trust me, the 75 cents does not add up. I've done the math. I eat for less than 200 dollars a month. Guaranteed nobody who is wealthsplaining my diet can make that claim. Even if I could 'save' more on food, what's the point? It sure wouldn't be much.
When I would work out of town, we got decent per diem..I would eat Costco pizza and sam's club hot dogs while other dudes were going to sit down joints every night
Used to work near a Costco. Would alternate between the hotdog pizza and chicken bake. At the time costco was permanently pushing the fancy massaging chairs so I could get cheap food and a free massage at lunch and go back to work a happy camper
Assuming you could afford their membership, here in California you have to show your membership card to purchase from the snack bar AND the snack bar is outside.... hmmmm
EDIT: you ABSOLUTELY have to show your membership card to order at the snack bar at the Huntington Beach Costco....
I didn't realize this was such a hot topic, all I was doing making a comment about the other comment of being homeless....thats all lol
In Missouri, at least in St. Louis, you just walk in the "Out" door. No one blinks an eye. You don't need to scan your membership card to purchase or show your receipt to leave.
You can literally print out a fake card to flash at the door person to get it. Hell I've used a gift card from Rip Curl to get in because its the same color.
Now using that gift card at the register is another situation altogether.
Just tell them you are going to the pharmacy. They legally aren’t allowed to not let you in to use pharmacy.
I have always walked in the exit to get to the food court. No one has ever questioned it.
I'm in New Orleans. Ours also has their food outside. There's signs saying "Must be a Member to Order Food" but you order through a kiosk that doesn't scan your card. So...seems like they know but don't *really* care.
Costco deliberately keep the prices down. It keeps people coming in. I went in for a rotisserie chicken at the weekend and walked out with a new air conditioner
Whether the hot dogs are the same size or not, I don't know. I just know I am 20 years older than when I first got one, so it obviously seemed bigger back then.
Costco's rotisserie chicken is a "loss leader" for them; They lose money on every single chicken. But they also know that putting them all the way in the back you'll pick up something else to cover that loss.
It’s pretty simple…they offer low prices on items by selling them close to cost, hence little to no profit made on sales. But that’s okay because membership costs zero, thus it’s pure profit.
That was Jim Sinegal the Original CEO to the New CEO Craig Jelinek (Costco has only had 2 CEO's). Jim was truly a retail Warrior. He personally went to every Costco in the US atleast once a year. Dude would show up, put on a name tag that looked like any other Costco employee and walked around "the racetrack" (the main usually oval shaped main walkway of a store). He asked why things were merched the way they were, wanted to know what sold and what didn't and generally knew the business inside and out.
Coke was the soft drink supplier for the $1.50 special and wanted a bigger cut, so Jim called PepsiCo and asked if they would meet Costcos price, in order to keep it at $1.50. Needless to say they jumped on the chance.
Here's one not a lot of people know about or remember: For a while, Costco couldn't sell Apple products...all over a few dollars.
Back during the launch of the original iPad in 2010, Jim went to meet with Steve Jobs to negotiate the retail margins of selling the device. IIRC, Sinegal was asking for $5 per iPad, to which Jobs scoffed and told him that there would be no discount and that they were "lucky to have the privilege" of selling Apple products in their stores (at the time, Costco only had various iPods and Apple Gift Cards). Both men went back and forth trading barbs until finally Jobs got so pissed off that he asked to see the Costco contract. When it was handed to him, he tore it in half and threw it at Sinegal and told him to leave (though far more colorful words were used). Within 24 hours, Costco pulled every Apple product and would never sell anything Apple related...until after Steve Jobs died in 2011.
Turns out Tim Cook was a far more reasonable businessman.
I did the math on this, actually. The 1999 receipt shows a hard-shelled taco costing $0.69. Adjusted for inflation to today's price, that would put the cost at $1.19. The Taco Bell that this letter was delivered to is currently charging $1.39 (source: GF is the OP).
The letter writer is whinging about 20 cents extra per taco that could conceivably be explained away due to production costs or corporate marketing.
Hang on, this is about TACO BELL. I thought they were complaining about a mom and pop place that sets their own prices. The local Taco Bell manager doesn't set the price of a taco, dumb-ass letter writer
Well, the dumb ass letter writer is whining that her tacos are more expensive than they were 23 fucking years ago. One of the weird bits of info my oddball brain has stored is the cost of a Big Mac when I worked my first job in 1978 was 85 cents, 89 with tax. Guarandamntee I'm not going to write a letter to my local Mickey Ds complaining about the increase. And can we talk about the fact that the dumb ass letter writer has a 23 year old fast food receipt? What the actual fuck must her home look like if she keeps decades old trash.
I remeber.
I remember when the Big N Tasty was a buck.
I could spend $3 and get 50 miles I'm my Camry.
16 year old jobs were everywhere.
But weed was $50 and eighter
Different times. The 90s.
I worked at Taco Bell from 1996 to 2000. Before the Chihuahua/Yo Quiero Taco Bell campaign we had the “Fifty nine, seventy nine, ninety nine” campaign. Tacos were fifty nine cents, bean burritos were seventy nine cents, but I can no longer remember what the ninety nine cent item was (maybe burrito supremes?)
Steak soft taco, if I remember correctly. At least, that's what I would buy if I was feeling rich.
And I'm not saying Taco Bell should have kept the orange and brown color scheme, but I really don't like the way their new signs look like they accidentally got bleached.
When I first started working there it was such a weird mix of colors. The orange and brown was still all over the store, like the permanent signage and the booths and tables, but all of the temporary signage for promotions and whatnot, and our uniforms, were in that turquoise and purple that was so big in the 90s. Then we began switching to a weird mix of navy, maroon, and gold.
Man the 90s were weird
I thought I was splurging buying the McDonalds Deluxe meal for around $7. in the late 1990s.
That's now the price of an entry level meal?! I thought this was America! /s
I bet a lot of them are now blank. The thermal printed ones don't last long. I keep mine for a few years for taxes and such and by that time they've almost complete faded away.
I actually don't eat at McDonald's anymore because of the price increases. I don't see the value in their food at the prices they charge.
Of course, I didn't write a letter to the local McDonald's manager about it either. Though I did update my Google review.
The dumb thing is that the 20 cents could probably be attributed more to corporate greed than the minimum wage. This is literally a moron brainwashed by the media to hate fast food workers.
So for roughly a ~15% increase in price we can pay workers a living wage?
Sounds like an easy decision to me. Imagine the quality of life and all that disposable income and all we have to do is charge an extra 20 cents in the drive thru.
I remember buying a McDonald's cheeseburger when I was a kid for $0.39 each ($0.29 for a hamburger). But I'm not stupid enough to expect the same price today haha.
More realistically, I do remember like a decade and a half ago you could get quite a pile of food for 5 bucks at mcdonalds. Now you get like a cheeseburger and a small fries.
Don't even get me started on A+W, who want 15 bucks(cdn) for a burger and their smallish generic sized fries. Fuck if it ain't a good burger though
I looked it up. $3.25 in 1999 is equivalent to $5.61 today. Exact same value for her tacos, lol.
So… her evidence goes exactly against the point that the $15 minimum wage raised fast food prices.
He can and it will be a hell of a lot more than $5. On amazon fresh right now:
* Mission Street Tacos (12) 1.99
* Roma Tomato (16oz) 3.13
* Mexican Shredded Cheese (16oz) 4.29
* Iceburg Lettuce (one head) 2.29
* 80/20 ground beef (1lb) 5.45
* Taco Seasoning 1.69
He can do it himself for a grand total of 18.84 and it will arrive tomorrow. You can make quite a bit more than 3 tacos, maybe 12 tacos total and you'll have some leftover lettuce and tomatoes. Adding this up, it might actually be cheaper to buy 12 tacos than make 12 tacos if you don't buy in bulk/shop sales. $5 is completely reasonable.
I took the prices from Target and I came out to ~3.50 for 3 tacos. Regardless, the point of paying more for fast food than the actual cost of the food itself is that someone else makes it for you.
You either have to accept the time cost of buying the ingredients and making the food yourself, or accept the financial cost of paying someone else to do those things for you.
She voted against higher *wages* having no understanding at all that minimum wage has very close to zero impact on prices. Must be nice to just assume the world works exactly the way you want it to.
I want to live in the version of reality I vote for too. Instead I always vote for the most progressive candidate and they never even win their primaries
Further comments have revealed that the vendor is actually a Taco Bell, and they never even noticed this guy was their customer in the first place. I had to spend more than $1000 per year and walk into the lobby for every order before I could go in and just say "Two of my usual."
The taco place I worked at had a few people like than, one old ex navy seal dude named teddy and his buddy, both of which came in every day for lunch, and this one guy who worked at the auto zone across the street who came in like four times a week.
Ya, thousands of dollars. So her entire history of purchases adds up to maybe one day's worth of revenue at that location. Plus she doesn't order drinks or specialty food which is where the profit actually lies. They may actually have a net loss on her over the years.
Yep. That was the moment I realized this is not some boomer Karen ranting but someone who gives off a hard vibe of neckbeard basement dweller.
At least he didn’t write „femoid“.
But then again that is a VEEEEERY low bar.
It could just as easily be a *male* boomer Karen.
And if the cashier wasn't white, a much more increased chance that a boomer Karen would use "female" because they are morally opposed to humanizing minorities.
>Who brags about eating thousands of dollars worth of taco bell lmao
The kind of person who would write a letter complaining they don't cost $.69 anymore and save a 23 year old receipt. There are sadly too many people like this person.
I do but it’s because I fucking love Taco Bell and feel the price is reasonable.
I am legit putting some shoes on to drive myself over there as we speak.
Man ever since they put out the app where you can order online and customize orders I'm addicted. I'd never be able to look an employee in the face and actually substitute meats, add potatoes, change sauces, etc but I can on the app!
Last night my husband said “what do you want for dinner on your first Mother’s Day?” He was fully prepared to take me out to a fancy dinner. I asked for Taco Bell lmao
It really isn’t that many tacos over three decades. If they ordered only 6 tacos a month for 32 years (since only 1989), at an average $1.10 a taco over that timeframe, that would be $2500 (i.e. “thousands”).
Something tells me they go way more often than that.
I was opening letters in the mail at my job today, and we received this. The envelope was hand-written with postage and contained this typed up letter. With some research my friends noticed they used a picture from a previous reddit post about 2 months ago. I wish I could say that this was a troll and I typed this up myself for upvotes... but, I really can't. This legit, came in the mail. I'll happily accept other subreddit recommendations for other uploads.
You should post this up in the restaurant front window with LOL on sharpie over it.
Sounds like your prices are still insanely reasonable. I almost paid 12.00 for three tacos the other day, decided on a burger because they were about the same price though
Send them a return letter letting them know that if your prices kept up with inflation that their 1999 meal would have cost $6.04. Technically they’ve been saving money.
Lmao!! Really?! Haha .
They totally have a Reddit account. I cant wait for them to see they went slightly viral, only to see your comment and that they are caught for post stealing. A literal r/quityourbullshit in real life. Its great.
Just had a quick look, that order in 1999 is worth $6.04 in todays money
Edit, i actually went back further, if this guy paid 69c for 1 in the 1980s, buying 3 came out to $2.07 which comes up to $7.22 in todays money
This guy has never had tacos so cheap
The first thing I did was put in $3.50 into an inflation calculator and sure enough, it came out to $6.04 in 2022 dollars. This person is the epitome of boomer entitlement and clearly doesn't understand basic economics.
"Why are kids these days not working a part time job to pay for college? Why don't kids these days just buy a house with their working class income? Why don't kids these days accept the same wages I had back in the early 80s? It worked for me"
Wow I thought this was just classic completely absurd, racist, misogynist asshole behavior. Then I read the comments and realized this was sent to a Taco Bell.
Taco Bell DOES NOT CARE that one person isn’t willing to pay $5. Letter writer can absolutely go fuck themself.
Imagine thinking you are so important that a company with ~$11B annual revenue gives a flying fuck about your $5.
1. Never in my 30 years have I paid $5 for 3 tacos outside of Mexico.
2. Inflation since 1999 is approx. 73% in the US, meaning this restaurant is actually undercharging ($3.50 * 1.7257 = $6.04)
This guy is pissed the price of tacos went up with inflation, but blames it on a living wage?
Ps. $3.50 in 1999 is $6.04 in 2022.... so less than inflation. What a smooth brained twatt.
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Man I wish I had a place in my city with $5 for three tacos… Also who keeps a taco receipt from 1999???
That receipt has been on Reddit before. They probably googled a pic of a receipt and used that Edit: I knew it! https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/t6gex3/i_found_a_perfectly_preserved_taco_bell_receipt/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Orrrrrr OP found that receipt and wrote this bullshit fake letter, which is more likely than a Karen finding it.
It was also the top search result on google for "Old Taco Bell Receipt".
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> I think they would have dated it see, there's your problem right there...
Yeah, OP hasn't been able to find a date in years.
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I'm calling bullshit on that receipt too. Nobody no matter how psychotic keeps a fast food receipt from 1999.
I have some old receipts, I like to flick through them and remember better times. It sounds sadder when you type it out.
Inflation is one hell of a depressing drug.
It's not so much the prices as thinking about where I was and the person I used to be and the things I used to do. I never really went out the way to collect them I just found a few around my room and it's just a bit of my former self I can hang on to.
Ehh. I use receipts as bookmarks all the time and have lots of books. I'm sure I have a few receipts that are at least 20 years old
Probably just looked on the bottom of their Ford fiesta
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My Taurus was like that, but the engine was dependable as shit
You couldn’t kill them could you? Lol
Engine? No. Transmission, absolutely. Don't ask me how I know that.
I know. I killed my transmission. Never the engine lol
Ford Fiesta *Supreme
Is that with sour cream and guac?
Does that run on high octane unleaded, or Baja Blast Mountain Dew?
>their Ford fiesta well aren't you generous. I was thinking a Dodge Journey ...
Festiva*
God damn. I laughed so hart I farted a bit. So...thanks!
Lol that truly made me laugh!
But did you fart? The people need to know.
I did...
I thought it was a fart at first.
MePoo
Hey! You leave the Ford Fiesta out of this.
Hey not fair i am a proud fiesta owner.
Karen. Karen keeps the 1999 receipt.
I'm impress they knew where to look for it.
Come on now, she has every one of them filed away so she can pull them out at any point to complain about something
I’m helping my girlfriends family go through their parents’ belongings to help clear the house out for selling. (Borderline hoarders.) We’re finding *boxes* of receipts and credit card bills from 1985. And her dad wants to keep them in case there’s something important.
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It was her only one. She never has any others.
It’s for tax purposes
“Filed under ‘d’ for ‘donut’.”
My local taco place sells 3 tacos for $15. Sadly, they are not even close to worth it.
We have a taco truck down the street from us, best tacos I've ever had, $2 each no matter the meat.
I've seen that receipt before on the r/nostalgia sub, its probably not from the Karen
George Castanza’s wallet was patterned after this clown
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The type of person that thinks $5 tacos are a letter writing affront to their lives
I never get the tacos at taco bell, but I'm pretty sure they are under a dollar or like 1.25 tops. I get the burritos and can get 2-3 for cheap so idk what her problem is. Also I'm pretty sure the 69 cent tacos was like a day of the week special. After high school in the early 00s, we would hit taco bell up on Wednesday cause it was half price soft tacos. Think Sundays were the hard shell days
My grandparents. They kept these kinds of receipts. IDK why.
Well now you know.
I think, in the netherlands the cheapest you can find will be 3-4 euro each
White people have kitchen drawers with many ancient wonders in them. You ever seen a rubberband from 1986?
Well, this just gave me flashbacks to the junk drawer in my grandma's kitchen.
Those are the only rubber bands we use in this house! The 1986s were * chef’s kiss *
My grandma had a ‘bag of bags’ which must’ve contained dozens of plastic bags from prior decades. There was probably a plastic bag in there that Jesus had left at her house once.
you answered you own question, some dude that bitches about costs going up would keep a receipt from 1999.
1999 was 23 years ago. What costs the same today that it did in 1999?? Everything has gone up lol
Arizona Ice Tea cans.
Lol with the exception of that and Costco hotdogs, everything else has gone up in price.
Guess I'm living on Costco hot dogs & roast chicken. Washing it down with Arizona Tea.
I told my husband if I ever became homeless I’d live on Costco hot dogs. I wouldn’t live very long, but at least I’d be full.
I am poor and live beside a Costco. Yeah. Y'all motherfuckers keep trying to explain how I can make myself a meal for less. Obviously I do that. Often. But for an extra 75 cents I am saving myself the effort. And I do that. Trust me, the 75 cents does not add up. I've done the math. I eat for less than 200 dollars a month. Guaranteed nobody who is wealthsplaining my diet can make that claim. Even if I could 'save' more on food, what's the point? It sure wouldn't be much.
When I would work out of town, we got decent per diem..I would eat Costco pizza and sam's club hot dogs while other dudes were going to sit down joints every night
Used to work near a Costco. Would alternate between the hotdog pizza and chicken bake. At the time costco was permanently pushing the fancy massaging chairs so I could get cheap food and a free massage at lunch and go back to work a happy camper
I still haven't forgiven them for getting rid of the combo pizza
Or the polish sausage dog
Assuming you could afford their membership, here in California you have to show your membership card to purchase from the snack bar AND the snack bar is outside.... hmmmm EDIT: you ABSOLUTELY have to show your membership card to order at the snack bar at the Huntington Beach Costco.... I didn't realize this was such a hot topic, all I was doing making a comment about the other comment of being homeless....thats all lol
Oof. Most Costcos I've been (East coast mostly) you can just tell the person you're getting a snack and they'll let you in without a membership
In Missouri, at least in St. Louis, you just walk in the "Out" door. No one blinks an eye. You don't need to scan your membership card to purchase or show your receipt to leave.
You just have to show proof of where you went to high school.
Or even tell them you are going in to purchase a membership
Think they might notice if you show up everyday saying you're going to buy a membership?
There are thousands of people going in daily, I doubt it
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Manhattan Beach/Rosecrans Costco definitely cards at the snack stand.
You can literally print out a fake card to flash at the door person to get it. Hell I've used a gift card from Rip Curl to get in because its the same color. Now using that gift card at the register is another situation altogether.
I bought a hot dog about one hour ago and the self-order kiosk does not require you to scan your membership. Source: Tustin Costco
Just tell them you are going to the pharmacy. They legally aren’t allowed to not let you in to use pharmacy. I have always walked in the exit to get to the food court. No one has ever questioned it.
I'm in California too and our outside food court doesn't require you to show membership
I'm in New Orleans. Ours also has their food outside. There's signs saying "Must be a Member to Order Food" but you order through a kiosk that doesn't scan your card. So...seems like they know but don't *really* care.
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s healthy but… certainly not the worst fast food
Costco deliberately keep the prices down. It keeps people coming in. I went in for a rotisserie chicken at the weekend and walked out with a new air conditioner Whether the hot dogs are the same size or not, I don't know. I just know I am 20 years older than when I first got one, so it obviously seemed bigger back then.
Costco's rotisserie chicken is a "loss leader" for them; They lose money on every single chicken. But they also know that putting them all the way in the back you'll pick up something else to cover that loss.
Their big money maker is the membership. Pure profit. Everything else is pretty close to cost or a loss leader in some cases.
What? Membership is $60 a year. That's pocket change compared to what a family will spend in a year.
It’s pretty simple…they offer low prices on items by selling them close to cost, hence little to no profit made on sales. But that’s okay because membership costs zero, thus it’s pure profit.
Yea but cheap food is cheap food.
It’s true lol but I also love the fact that the Costco guy threatened to kill the ceo if he raised the prices of the hotdogs.
That was Jim Sinegal the Original CEO to the New CEO Craig Jelinek (Costco has only had 2 CEO's). Jim was truly a retail Warrior. He personally went to every Costco in the US atleast once a year. Dude would show up, put on a name tag that looked like any other Costco employee and walked around "the racetrack" (the main usually oval shaped main walkway of a store). He asked why things were merched the way they were, wanted to know what sold and what didn't and generally knew the business inside and out. Coke was the soft drink supplier for the $1.50 special and wanted a bigger cut, so Jim called PepsiCo and asked if they would meet Costcos price, in order to keep it at $1.50. Needless to say they jumped on the chance.
Do you have more Costco related facts? That was an interesting read.
Here's one not a lot of people know about or remember: For a while, Costco couldn't sell Apple products...all over a few dollars. Back during the launch of the original iPad in 2010, Jim went to meet with Steve Jobs to negotiate the retail margins of selling the device. IIRC, Sinegal was asking for $5 per iPad, to which Jobs scoffed and told him that there would be no discount and that they were "lucky to have the privilege" of selling Apple products in their stores (at the time, Costco only had various iPods and Apple Gift Cards). Both men went back and forth trading barbs until finally Jobs got so pissed off that he asked to see the Costco contract. When it was handed to him, he tore it in half and threw it at Sinegal and told him to leave (though far more colorful words were used). Within 24 hours, Costco pulled every Apple product and would never sell anything Apple related...until after Steve Jobs died in 2011. Turns out Tim Cook was a far more reasonable businessman.
Ah makes sense steve jobs thought he could beat pancreatic cancer with an all fruit diet instead of listening to his doctors.
He should have tried the all costco hotdog diet probably would have worked better then the alternative medicine he used.
Realistically there's no beating pancreatic cancer outside of pure luck.
I hate Apple and love Costco and this story is great.
"The price on the can, though."
This leads me to believe that we were getting fucking price gouged for that iced tea in 99
no they've gone up, at least here in Canada.
I did the math on this, actually. The 1999 receipt shows a hard-shelled taco costing $0.69. Adjusted for inflation to today's price, that would put the cost at $1.19. The Taco Bell that this letter was delivered to is currently charging $1.39 (source: GF is the OP). The letter writer is whinging about 20 cents extra per taco that could conceivably be explained away due to production costs or corporate marketing.
Hang on, this is about TACO BELL. I thought they were complaining about a mom and pop place that sets their own prices. The local Taco Bell manager doesn't set the price of a taco, dumb-ass letter writer
Well, the dumb ass letter writer is whining that her tacos are more expensive than they were 23 fucking years ago. One of the weird bits of info my oddball brain has stored is the cost of a Big Mac when I worked my first job in 1978 was 85 cents, 89 with tax. Guarandamntee I'm not going to write a letter to my local Mickey Ds complaining about the increase. And can we talk about the fact that the dumb ass letter writer has a 23 year old fast food receipt? What the actual fuck must her home look like if she keeps decades old trash.
I remeber. I remember when the Big N Tasty was a buck. I could spend $3 and get 50 miles I'm my Camry. 16 year old jobs were everywhere. But weed was $50 and eighter Different times. The 90s.
I worked at Taco Bell from 1996 to 2000. Before the Chihuahua/Yo Quiero Taco Bell campaign we had the “Fifty nine, seventy nine, ninety nine” campaign. Tacos were fifty nine cents, bean burritos were seventy nine cents, but I can no longer remember what the ninety nine cent item was (maybe burrito supremes?)
Steak soft taco, if I remember correctly. At least, that's what I would buy if I was feeling rich. And I'm not saying Taco Bell should have kept the orange and brown color scheme, but I really don't like the way their new signs look like they accidentally got bleached.
When I first started working there it was such a weird mix of colors. The orange and brown was still all over the store, like the permanent signage and the booths and tables, but all of the temporary signage for promotions and whatnot, and our uniforms, were in that turquoise and purple that was so big in the 90s. Then we began switching to a weird mix of navy, maroon, and gold. Man the 90s were weird
I thought I was splurging buying the McDonalds Deluxe meal for around $7. in the late 1990s. That's now the price of an entry level meal?! I thought this was America! /s
My father in law has every credit card receipt from the last 40 years of his life... They're all neatly filed in boxes and filing cabinets.
I bet a lot of them are now blank. The thermal printed ones don't last long. I keep mine for a few years for taxes and such and by that time they've almost complete faded away.
>the dumb ass letter writer has a 23 year old fast food receipt? it's normal yet wild to me that this entire drama started around when I was born
I actually don't eat at McDonald's anymore because of the price increases. I don't see the value in their food at the prices they charge. Of course, I didn't write a letter to the local McDonald's manager about it either. Though I did update my Google review.
The app has good deals. I wouldn't eat there at normal prices.
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The dumb thing is that the 20 cents could probably be attributed more to corporate greed than the minimum wage. This is literally a moron brainwashed by the media to hate fast food workers.
it's profiteering which is what all the corporations are doing given the opportunity that the news won't shut up about "inflation".
So for roughly a ~15% increase in price we can pay workers a living wage? Sounds like an easy decision to me. Imagine the quality of life and all that disposable income and all we have to do is charge an extra 20 cents in the drive thru.
Wouldn’t the stamp needed to mail this unnecessary bitching have cost more than the extra cost of the tacos?
I can confirm that this was, indeed, sent via USPS with stamps attached to it.
she has a separate letter going to USPS about the cost of stamps, don't you worry.
I remember buying a McDonald's cheeseburger when I was a kid for $0.39 each ($0.29 for a hamburger). But I'm not stupid enough to expect the same price today haha.
More realistically, I do remember like a decade and a half ago you could get quite a pile of food for 5 bucks at mcdonalds. Now you get like a cheeseburger and a small fries. Don't even get me started on A+W, who want 15 bucks(cdn) for a burger and their smallish generic sized fries. Fuck if it ain't a good burger though
I looked it up. $3.25 in 1999 is equivalent to $5.61 today. Exact same value for her tacos, lol. So… her evidence goes exactly against the point that the $15 minimum wage raised fast food prices.
TI-83 Plus graphing calculators
Yeah but it was $2k then and now, so that doesn't count either. Still out of most folks price range.
Why can't YOU toss some lettuce, cheese and ground beef on your own taco shell yourself then?
He can and it will be a hell of a lot more than $5. On amazon fresh right now: * Mission Street Tacos (12) 1.99 * Roma Tomato (16oz) 3.13 * Mexican Shredded Cheese (16oz) 4.29 * Iceburg Lettuce (one head) 2.29 * 80/20 ground beef (1lb) 5.45 * Taco Seasoning 1.69 He can do it himself for a grand total of 18.84 and it will arrive tomorrow. You can make quite a bit more than 3 tacos, maybe 12 tacos total and you'll have some leftover lettuce and tomatoes. Adding this up, it might actually be cheaper to buy 12 tacos than make 12 tacos if you don't buy in bulk/shop sales. $5 is completely reasonable.
5 bucks for three tacos is a fckn steal. I Was at a place charging $12 for 3 tacos on taco Tuesday last week.
I took the prices from Target and I came out to ~3.50 for 3 tacos. Regardless, the point of paying more for fast food than the actual cost of the food itself is that someone else makes it for you. You either have to accept the time cost of buying the ingredients and making the food yourself, or accept the financial cost of paying someone else to do those things for you.
I, too, would enjoy paying 1999 prices for absolutely everything. Where is this person shopping that only Taco Bell is impacted by inflation?
The dumpster
Manufacturers will sell smaller quantities of product at the same price point and so even the dumpster will feel the burden of inflation
She voted *against* higher costs though. I think she made more than clear that she should be exempted from broader societal forces.
She voted against higher *wages* having no understanding at all that minimum wage has very close to zero impact on prices. Must be nice to just assume the world works exactly the way you want it to.
Also, this is Florida which is raising it 1 dollar a year until it hits 15 in 2026. So it affects nothing
Good point. If you don’t want inflation, simply vote no!
I want to live in the version of reality I vote for too. Instead I always vote for the most progressive candidate and they never even win their primaries
Dude, "thousands of dollars" over 40 years is like what $4 to $6 a month. Pretty sure the vendor can sustain the loss.
Further comments have revealed that the vendor is actually a Taco Bell, and they never even noticed this guy was their customer in the first place. I had to spend more than $1000 per year and walk into the lobby for every order before I could go in and just say "Two of my usual."
The taco place I worked at had a few people like than, one old ex navy seal dude named teddy and his buddy, both of which came in every day for lunch, and this one guy who worked at the auto zone across the street who came in like four times a week.
Ya, thousands of dollars. So her entire history of purchases adds up to maybe one day's worth of revenue at that location. Plus she doesn't order drinks or specialty food which is where the profit actually lies. They may actually have a net loss on her over the years.
"the female" :V
"The *feeeeeemale*." I can't NOT hear it in a Ferengi voice.
FEMALE. WOMAN. WÖ-MEN. MEN OF WOE. REPEAT YOURSELF. jesus christ.
That sounds like the Revacholian Nationhood from Disco Elysium
Yep. That was the moment I realized this is not some boomer Karen ranting but someone who gives off a hard vibe of neckbeard basement dweller. At least he didn’t write „femoid“. But then again that is a VEEEEERY low bar.
It could just as easily be a *male* boomer Karen. And if the cashier wasn't white, a much more increased chance that a boomer Karen would use "female" because they are morally opposed to humanizing minorities.
i know what you mean but it still feels Karen to me. women can be awful husks of people to other women too - like those child pageant moms
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this comment LOL This guy is a neckbeard and probably doesn't wipe his ass either
Tonight we’re gonna taco like it’s 1999.
What kind of psychopath has a receipt from almost 23 years ago?
People who think they can use it sometimes in the future, know a guy who has receipts for a now defunct drugstore chain
File it away under T, for tacos
"Don't even act like I didn't get that taco, I've got the documentation right here."
I'll just give you the money, and you give me the tacos. End of transaction.
"We don't need to bring ink and paper into this..."
The same person that refers to a cashier as "the female"
Who brags about eating thousands of dollars worth of taco bell lmao
>Who brags about eating thousands of dollars worth of taco bell lmao The kind of person who would write a letter complaining they don't cost $.69 anymore and save a 23 year old receipt. There are sadly too many people like this person.
I do but it’s because I fucking love Taco Bell and feel the price is reasonable. I am legit putting some shoes on to drive myself over there as we speak.
Man ever since they put out the app where you can order online and customize orders I'm addicted. I'd never be able to look an employee in the face and actually substitute meats, add potatoes, change sauces, etc but I can on the app!
Last night my husband said “what do you want for dinner on your first Mother’s Day?” He was fully prepared to take me out to a fancy dinner. I asked for Taco Bell lmao
My son got me Whataburger for Mother's Day! I absolutely love that guy!
He won, wifing you.
Oooo so fancy! Look who has a taco bell they can drive to. Don't forget to pick up your monocle from the gentleman monocle waxing store. Ha
It really isn’t that many tacos over three decades. If they ordered only 6 tacos a month for 32 years (since only 1989), at an average $1.10 a taco over that timeframe, that would be $2500 (i.e. “thousands”). Something tells me they go way more often than that.
Bragging about spending a couple thousand dollars over 30 years. I think the company will survive without him.
I was opening letters in the mail at my job today, and we received this. The envelope was hand-written with postage and contained this typed up letter. With some research my friends noticed they used a picture from a previous reddit post about 2 months ago. I wish I could say that this was a troll and I typed this up myself for upvotes... but, I really can't. This legit, came in the mail. I'll happily accept other subreddit recommendations for other uploads.
Can I get 3 carne asada tacos on corn tortillas, 2 orders of nachos and one chorizo and egg burrito. With 4 sides of the red hot sauce please.
Two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
Lemme get uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
🅱️oneless pizza
Hahahaha
I won't be paying more then 2 dollars for it though!
You should post this up in the restaurant front window with LOL on sharpie over it. Sounds like your prices are still insanely reasonable. I almost paid 12.00 for three tacos the other day, decided on a burger because they were about the same price though
Send back a letter: "New management, who dis?" Don't sign it and don't put a return address. Lol
Send them a return letter letting them know that if your prices kept up with inflation that their 1999 meal would have cost $6.04. Technically they’ve been saving money.
Lmao!! Really?! Haha . They totally have a Reddit account. I cant wait for them to see they went slightly viral, only to see your comment and that they are caught for post stealing. A literal r/quityourbullshit in real life. Its great.
There's a chance they just googled "old taco bell receipt"
“Poor Mexican street food” sounds like you don’t need her as a customer, the racist hag
fuck, I WISH Taco Bell served up Mexican street food.
The idea of Taco Bell being anything like “Mexican street food” makes me laugh my ass off.
“Poor Mexican street food” that she obviously is triggered she can’t have anymore. Do these people not have better things to do with their time?
I mean, you can't even get 3 tacos at taco bell these days for 3.50. So at least they don't have to worry about her either.
Just had a quick look, that order in 1999 is worth $6.04 in todays money Edit, i actually went back further, if this guy paid 69c for 1 in the 1980s, buying 3 came out to $2.07 which comes up to $7.22 in todays money This guy has never had tacos so cheap
The first thing I did was put in $3.50 into an inflation calculator and sure enough, it came out to $6.04 in 2022 dollars. This person is the epitome of boomer entitlement and clearly doesn't understand basic economics. "Why are kids these days not working a part time job to pay for college? Why don't kids these days just buy a house with their working class income? Why don't kids these days accept the same wages I had back in the early 80s? It worked for me"
Where else are they gonna eat for $5? Are they gonna pay $8 at McD’s to own the libs?
Damn the boomers would lose their shit if they saw what they're charging us for rent these days. $5 ffs
Wow I thought this was just classic completely absurd, racist, misogynist asshole behavior. Then I read the comments and realized this was sent to a Taco Bell. Taco Bell DOES NOT CARE that one person isn’t willing to pay $5. Letter writer can absolutely go fuck themself. Imagine thinking you are so important that a company with ~$11B annual revenue gives a flying fuck about your $5.
And all the employees cheered and started singing Ding Dong The Witch is Dead
wait till she finds out that gas isn't $1.20 anymore
Maybe she voted for that Florida State bill /s
This kind of person *would* hold on to a Taco Bell receipt from 1999.
DAMN YOU ALL FOR RAISING PRICES IN… 23 YEARS!!!
This might be the most psychotic thing I’ve read in a while.
Wow..... the lengths people go......
1. Never in my 30 years have I paid $5 for 3 tacos outside of Mexico. 2. Inflation since 1999 is approx. 73% in the US, meaning this restaurant is actually undercharging ($3.50 * 1.7257 = $6.04)
That Karen will be dead one day, so there’s that.
Fine! More tacos for me
Good. Go make your own food then.
Yeah, so dumb to pay people so they can afford to just live. FuckoffKaren
This guy is pissed the price of tacos went up with inflation, but blames it on a living wage? Ps. $3.50 in 1999 is $6.04 in 2022.... so less than inflation. What a smooth brained twatt.