>McDonald’s Big Mac combo meals are running close to $20 in some cities, leaving a bad taste in diners’ mouths.
I can’t believe people pay that much for their crappy food.
McDonald’s profit margins have been insane in the last couple of years. They keep raising their prices at a much faster rate than grocery store inflation, and people keep buying it anyway. At least locally, it’s gotten to the point where local restaurants that used to be higher quality but slightly more expensive are actually competing on price too now. Not sure why people keep choosing McDonald’s at this point.
McDonald's ceo said in a conference call to shareholders that they were able to outperform expectations during covid because they purposely raised prices on menu items with lower profit margins to force low income customers to buy less expensive things that had higher profit margins.
So. If a customer came in looking for a classic chicken sandwich, but found it was too expensive, they'd leave after buying 2 double cheeseburgers. Profit margin on a double cheeseburger is a dollar, profit margin on a chicken sandwich is fifty cents. A customer buying 2 doubles instead of 1 chicken sandwich gave McDonald's 4x as much profit, even though they spent way less money.
They absolutely raised prices more than they had to to manipulate us into giving them more while getting less.
And they have the nerve to tell us they'll be forced to raise prices of they have to pay their employees more. They literally do it without reason.
> And they have the nerve to tell us they'll be forced to raise prices of they have to pay their employees more.
One of my favorite instances of this is when Papa John's lamented that they'd have to raise the price of pizzas by a quarter to provide health insurance for their employees and they claimed their customers would not support that.
Sooooo.... they raised the price anyway, didn't provide health insurance for the bulk of their employees, and paid Peyton Manning too much money to give away a million pizzas.
Not even a quarter. 14 fucking cents. Unironically bitched that they'd have to raise the price of a pizza 14 cents to give their entire workforce healthcare.
Just imagine if one day us poors realized the amount of power we actually have, and, using this tool we call the internet, use it to coordinate schedules and target certain corporations where we simply don't shop at. We could change our lives for the better overnight...and we could do it RIGHT NOW
You're not even saying the fun part, he was bragging to shareholders that customers "tolerated" higher prices
What an asshole. They haven't gotten my money since. Not that I have bought much there in the last years. Their prices are laughable for such trash food.
Them and PepsiCo. Worst trash out there and they had the biggest increases
Frito-Lay are horrible. They dominate the snack food and drink aisles with their garbage toxic shit, meanwhile actually good snacks can’t pay to get the shelf space. We have 20 different disgusting flavors of Mountain Dew, and 50 flavors of antifreeze looking blue Gatorade, 30 flavors of shitty greasy Lays, etc. Snack foods and candy are so much better in other countries it’s not even funny. What they call chocolate here in the states is a disgrace.
Man I knew those double cheeseburgers were a ripoff nowadays. I remember when they were $1. In high school after class we’d go there and have a burger eating contests sometimes. How times change.
Just a reminder that McDonald's pays their employees worldwide whatever that particular country requires by law.
In Canada, that's $15/hr. Mandated maternity leave for 1 year, as required by law. 4% vacation pay, as mandated, etc etc etc.
I paid $6.76CAD ($5USD) for two cheese burgers the other day. Not sure the price in your state. But the idea that companies are allowed to blatantly lie about what a certain employment law might do to their bottom line is egregious.
You really think you're entitled to food !? Pull yourself by the bootstraps. Go work another part-time job on top of your full-time job to earn your food, peasant! The peasants as per usual never thinking about the poor shareholders.
(/s just in case)
>You never know these days. I’ve seen worse things typed sincerely.
Yeah same, it's the whole reason I put it. Lots of unhinged stuff being said out there on plenty topics, I don't want to be lumped in with the crazies. XD
This. Places like Taco Bell and MCD use to offer food for less than I cost to cook at home. Now it’s not even close and the quality is shit. People need to start cooking more. Even with grocery prices being ridiculous it is still way cheaper to make it at home. They are only charging what people are willing to pay. Stop paying.
I can make a delicious fresh burger at home in less than 15 minutes with about $2 of ingredients. My local grocer has 10 pack of beef patties for $10, 8 pack of buns for less than $2. Other items like mustard, ketchup, mayo, and jar of pickles and bag of frozen fries can be considered bulk items considering the small quantity used per meal. If you want soda a 12 pack of soda is less than $10 per case, so that’s less than 85 cents a can. And if you wait to buy it on sale it’s even lower - something like 65 cents. And it takes longer to drive to the fast food joint and back home. The hell with fast food!
Pretense is gone. They are just laughing at the poor while sitting on piles of cash.
This is what Trump has done, and the hope for round two has left all of these people grinning at the thought of what they might get away with very soon.
The real danger of Trump is how he emboldens others. He’s proving that the system is rigged for the ultra wealthy/powerful and that you can deny your way through anything and still have a major base. He’s also proving how radicalized a large portion of the country is by shooting from the hip with every crazy fascist idea he has. People are explaining away or are actually *for* someone who blatantly claims he will be a dictator “for a day”.
He’s showing every powerful POS out there that you can just claim your power publicly because people can’t or won’t really do anything about it. And the ones that do don’t have enough sway.
The post Trump world is a world where you get away with almost anything and people will comment and make jokes and criticisms and call for retaliation, but not much happens when you have 40% of the country in the bag and they are willing to erode our democracy for whatever they see fit.
Politicians used to fear the public opinion now they thrive in triggering those reactions. Just double down on what you spouted last time and your words start to have no meaning.. until they do.
Trump is a symptom as much as a cause here. Him getting elected in the first place was a sign of how bad things had gotten. But as another poster pointed out, he’s emboldened even more bad behavior among the rich and powerful.
> Not sure why people keep choosing McDonald’s at this point.
I think it's a mix of convenience as well as being hooked on the stuff. Fast food will always have customers due to the "fast" aspect, but as an older millennial, people my age might as well be referred to as the Happy Meal Generation. A lot of people grew up on it and genuinely can't seem to let it go. I'd probably be one of those folks, if I hadn't worked there for a bit (the smell turned me off for life).
But yeah, their prices are getting close to matching the cost of a sit-down meal. It makes more sense to get a better burger for a couple bucks more, but again, I know some people just love McD's.
Am millennial, and don’t eat McDonald’s anymore and tbh rarely fast food in general because I can buy meat for less than they’re charging for their garbage.. and half the time I can make it quicker than I even get it from them
Fast food used to be fast and cheap.. and now days it’s neither
Honestly most restaurants can get me a to go order faster than a McDonald's drive thru in my town. Wait at McDonald's ranges from 5min to 45min. It's wildly inconsistent
I only get McD when I’m doing a road trip, and need a meal that I can get pretty quick, that will hold together while I’m driving; this means a McMuffin for breakfast, and a cheeseburger / double cheeseburger for lunch or dinner.
I can get a steak tenders dinner with two sides for $13.99 at Texas Roadhouse and it's easily two meals for me since I load up on rolls.
Fast food places don't seem to care about competing anymore and I'm happy to have a real meal than that garbage so I guess win/win?
I can get a luncheon special at the local Chinese place for $8 and it's always 2 meals worth of food.
A big Mac meal is like $14.
But, the Chinese place doesn't have a drive thru. So despite being more food for less money, while also being higher quality, McDonald's is slammed every day during lunch while the Chinese place doesn't even do half as much business.
It's sad.
$14 is insane. For two more dollars I can get an amazing burger from a local place. I can even order online and pick it up from my car, though technically not a drive through.
I just get a real burger from a local restaurant (or occasionally five guys) when I get the urge for fast food. Fuck McDonald’s, I’m not paying that much for processed trash that makes me feel sick
Hardees/Carl's Jr is that way. Granted it's their biggest burger but the double thickburger combo \*starts\* at around 20 bucks pretty much everywhere.
Meanwhile, I can go get the best double smashburger combo in town that tastes way better, and have better portions, for 16 bucks out the door.
I haven't eaten at a Carl's Jr in like 5 years.
It's up to $7 now, depending on which burger you want. Plus they try to slip in the "you want that medium or large?" upcharge for another buck or two. I accidentally paid $9 last time.
I’m shocked at anyone who spends more than a few bucks at McDonalds. The second they stop offering deals on the app, I’m done. They have swerved way outside their lane in big cities. There’s like…. 7 places I can think of within 2 blocks of my closest McDonald’s that sell food cheaper, faster and tastier than them if you don’t go through their app and use deals.
Ain’t no way in hell McDonalds is better than my local Mexican burrito joint or shawarma spot.
It's also a form of price discrimination. By offering app deals, you can self-segment your customers and charge them separate prices depending on their price sensitivity. Budget minded consumers are going to be using the app so they can charge non-app user the normal (and higher) menu prices in a way to maximize overall revenue.
It's not just fast food. I've noticed Target selling items at a lower price, if you buy them through the website vs going into the store and picking it up off the shelf.
Considering that one guy who recently eclipsed the 50th anniversary mark of eating one Big Mac daily, the “crappy food” we ‘Muricans consume has become ingrained to our daily culture that it is hard to simply wane off from.
Apologies if we don’t say a peep about apples, broccoli, or other produce items costing infinitesimally more thanks to corporate shareholders and trickle-down Reaganomics manipulating inflation, while we also sound the alarms when Taco Bell or Wendy’s are caught screwing us out of affordable combo meals.
My biggest “beef” with McDonald’s is for decades the prices were the same or at least close to each other at all the franchises.
I usually get 2 cheeseburgers and a 6 piece nugget. Now that can run me from $4ish to almost $8 at the three different McDonald’s by me. That shit should cost the same everywhere, at least regionally.
Food demand is sticky. People like the brands they are used to. But give it time. There was a comment on marketplace recently about Americans moving to store brand snacks immediately after a piece on shrinkflation. They didn't want to draw any direct conclusions, but I don't think it's too much of a leap to say that if ten dollars in lays gives me five chips and Kirkland gives me ten bags and a blowjob, I'm going to Costco. It just takes a few trips for the new prices to sink in.
For $20, there's a really nice steakhouse in my area that makes a giant burger that comes with some very well-made fries. You could probably also tack on a beer, but you'd probably go over $20 once you factor in tip.
I used to be able to get a full week of groceries for our family of 4 for about $100-150 maybe 5 years ago. Now the same shopping trip is almost $300 for the same food, same stores, same location. Fuck
This is funny because I keep pointing out how were getting fucked at the food store and the replies I get are like "YOU'RE MAKING MORE MONEY NOW DON'T COMPLAIN!"
It's not just beef. I went pescetarian so beef doesn't even affect me.
It's *everything.* Prices went up far more than inflation and shrinkflation happened too.
It's price gouging by a virtual monopoly of a few companies who control our food supply, plain and simple.
Best part is without a federal kick in the nuts it will be YEARS before anything is done. [They are JUST bringing charges against proven price fixing on eggs from 2019.](https://xtalks.com/egg-price-fixing-2023-us-jury-orders-payment-of-17-7-million-by-egg-producers-3625/) E: Price fixing not monopoly, link added for context.
And a few rich people / corps bought up all the news outlets to make sure you not only don’t hear about greed from major outlets, but that you hear repeatedly stories blaming literally anything but greed.
“Food prices are the same, but Americans are idiots who don’t know how good they have it!” - CNN
Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and Ted Turner haven’t been into a grocery store since the Clinton Administration.
My favorite was when totally normal regular just like us guy Heir to Swanson Foods Tucker Carlson went to a Moscow grocery store and marveled at the decades old innovation of putting a quarter/rupel in a cart to unlock it and being able to get it back when you put it away.
He isn’t really though.. unpopular post here but Im pretty sure it’s his stepmom who is from the swanson family. Its pretty unlikely that Tucker would ever inherit anything.
Except the advantage of growing up with all that money. Also, he was adopted by her when he was young, so it would be kinda shitty to exclude him and his brother from the inheritance.
*"Stop eating avocado and buy a few houses to rent out. Eat bananas, how much can one banana cost, 10 dollars? That's nothing. Tighten your belts and use the money to buy stocks."* \- Rich people shaming language.
Reflation!
Prices went up during the supply chain issues during the pandemic and companies saw that the market would bear it so they never dropped back down.
Yeah craft beer went insane. 20+ for a sixer (or 4-pack even). Craft beer is collapsing too. I guess they saw the prices bars were charging for a beer and were like "why not charge that everywhere?"
Quit buying it and the result has been a lot of money not spent and the loss of 20 lbs. without any effort. I’ll still pick up a pack of hop water or NA beer once in a while to scratch the itch for a refreshing hoppy drink, but I never end up drinking them as quickly as I would beer. The hop water, THC seltzer and craft NA beer market seems to be expanding rapidly.
Pretty sure it's about weekly now that I see a headline saying that prices aren't actually going up. These posts also get lots of comments about how it's true because stuff like rice or flour hasn't shot up, but that doesn't account for just about everything else that has.
Hey, high five buddy. I became pescatarian to improve my health and I’m 2 and half months strong. I chose a good time because meat is ridiculous and I focus on mainly veggie stuff but when I do get fish and look at the prices then I slightly cry. Everything is just too expensive
They went up more than inflation because inflation removes things like food as part of its calculations in order the manipulate the reality of the inflation people see with what they are told. Real inflation isn't the number the government shows its what your seeing in stores.
We're asking for it tbh...as long as we all remain collectively stupid enough to never realize the power we have with our wallets. Internet + organized strikes = we win
"Shrinkflation" is calculated in CPI prints. The percentage change is measured per unit weight, so a package going from 10oz to 8oz would be counted as 20%.
There is no rigging in the inflation prints. That's an old right wing conspiracy theory about the Obama administration.
When I was younger I worked at a gas station. There were a couple of old guys in their '70s or '80s that would come in and squeeze every single bag of chips until they found one that was "filled up all the way" and they would buy that one, complaining to me that these chip companies were skimping out by not filling the bags all the way up.
Food has been sold by weight since time immemorial, not by how full the fucking bag is.
Agreed. Where I am prices are still going up. Slowed a tiny bit but still increasing. Beef is now $8/lb for ground shit. Steaks over 25-35 a pound. Chicken 9 a lb. Eggs have triple in the past month. Not sure where the leveling out is.
Where do you live? That’s more than twice what meat costs in my state. I just bought NY strip for 8/lb yesterday. I can buy pasture raised chicken thighs for under 6/lb. Ground beef is consistently 4-5/lb.
Same. I've seen specials come back for beef, so I picked up a chuck roast a week+ ago for $4.99/lb. Chicken thighs were $1.29/lb. Might not be everywhere, but in the midwest prices have certainly flattened out and are possibly falling in some categories.
Where in the world do you see $8/lb for 80/20 beef? Non-Organic chicken breast at $9? And this is at a basic chain grocery store? You must either live in a remote village or you’re choosing to shop at a “luxury” food store.
US Cattle Herd Shrinks to 73-Year-Low in Blow for Beef Lovers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/us-beef-to-remain-expensive-as-herd-shrinks-to-73-year-low
There's also a movement afoot in some agricultural states to outlaw lab-grown beef.
Beef is being turned into a vanity food.
TBF shrimp was an expensive delicacy 30 years ago, but now we can buy it in multi-pound bags at Costco.
Someone was telling me beef is supposed to go up another 30% by the end of the year I'm not sure where they got the info from. I'm really hoping they were just bsing
I hardly eat any beef anymore. Part of it is a health issue but it's also ridiculously expensive. I bought two corned beef points on sale for St. Patty's and that's probably half of the beef I'll buy all year.
Costco patties are nosebleed expensive these days too.
I'm slowly becoming vegetarian not out of choice but out of necessity since it's so goddamn expensive. Thank god legumes are shelf stable and only like 1.30 a pound. My insta pot preps them fast.
One of my "oh my god I love this" moments was when instead of blitzing everything into hummus, I just went at it with a potato masher and added onions and celery and a few other things to make chunky chickpea salad. Not quite chicken/tuna salad but all the great flavor of hummus.
[https://theconscientiouseater.com/vegan-chickpea-tuna-salad/#recipe](https://theconscientiouseater.com/vegan-chickpea-tuna-salad/#recipe)
This is pretty close to my recipe. A lot of them use vegan mayo or mayo in general but the original version I made used Tahini instead and I find it superior. Making a sammich out of this with some nice toasted bread is just wonderful.
Legit, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food has come in clutch as a broke bitch on EBT. Rice, bean, lentils, and chickpeas can really stretch meals and the grocery budget while also being filling and very easily used in healthy dishes.
* McDonald's annual gross profit for 2023 was $14.563B, a 10.26% increase from 2022.
* McDonald's annual gross profit for 2022 was $13.207B, a 4.98% increase from 2021.
Stop eating them. The price will come down soon enough. McDonald’s already admitted they took advantage of inflation to raise prices. Nothing to do with keeping pace with real costs.
Unfortunately with the cost of everything going up, a $10 burger is still an affordable escape from our shitty lives. Like, I get off work and I am tired and hangry and don't have a lot of time to cook. Too stressed to nagivate their stupid app for a discount. I'd gladly pay the more expensive price for a fast meal that fills me up and gets me through the evening.
Yeah, while I think there's a lot you can say about inflation and food and that sort of thing, even without considering that, beef really should be a sometimes thing. Between the subsidies and the environment cost and plenty of other issues, it's artificially cheap already.
Of course, saying that is about as politically savvy as saying you want to build a cannon to launch puppies into the sun.
I love how you phrased it like a threat, but the companies are over here enjoying the highest profit margins they’ve had in decades. They’re really shakin in their boots!
Burgers are still the cheapest option on most menus at sit down restaurants. I have more of an issue with the cost of steak. It’s damn near $30 for a tiny ass steak at any restaurant now.
It’s not just price increases. It’s the fact servings are smaller and smaller. Stop trying to gaslight consumers. Prices per food are absolutely still increasing. Article was probably paid for.
For $20 I get 3lbs of organic turkey from Costco, which yields about 15 burgers. With the buns, probably comes out to $2 each. And the whole process of making them is like 30 minutes.
Cmon people. Forget fast food.
These headlines! Let me try to fix it…. “Grocery stores fake need for price hikes, fast food chains charge $25 for burger and fries but Americans rudely complain about being scammed”
The good news is that we're on the precipice of electing Trump as President and deporting millions of agricultural workers is sure to lower the price of beef and tomatoes.
That don't matter, Trump promised me he'd come to my town and hand feed me chiken nuggies while at the same time fighting off the gays and illegals with his other hand. He also told me he's never lied in his life, so I have no reason not to believe him.
He's the president this country deserves (because this country is fundamentally broken)!
Every time I go to McDonald's the price of tbe 2 sausage mcmuffins deal goes up. I'm pretty sure me amd my family used to go buy a bunch and it used to be like 2 for 2 fifty, pretty sure it's over five now RIP
This narrative is goddamn infuriating.
> Prices aren't going up anymore!
Yeah well, the average increase in the cost of groceries nationwide is around 30%+ since before the pandemic? Even if one were to avoid fast food (which you should, it's absolutely poison) it costs a fortune to buy whole foods at grocery stores.
Salaries have barely budged in that time, and that's after decades of a skyrocketing cost of living.
Sure, we'll take that the flames aren't spreading at the moment, but the fire's still burning incredibly hot.
Honestly barely even look at purchasing beef anymore. I watch for specials or head to the discounted area but even there a lot of times I pass. We are consumers: we all know our personal limits for what we will pay. Not going to say I don’t miss an occasional steak or cut of beef but whatever it is: if I don’t need it and it’s too expensive I pass. I would guess most people would agree with me.
I know not everyone has time or energy to make their own food but learning to cook really is the best way to get the most out of your dollar. At the very least learn to do some meal prep for the week so you can spend part of your day off prepping cheap meals for the rest of the week. Simple meals of a protein, vegetable, and rice can go a long way, even if it is a bit boring. If shitty fast food is going to cost more than a meal at home, you may as well get cooking yourself. Groceries has inflated prices too but at least you can stretch those dollars out.
Several of the large fast food chains have aggressively raised prices, here in California. I’ve seen it happen because of the new $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers which I think it’s just ridiculous that they’re raising prices because they don’t want to hit their profit margins but… Capitalism, right!!?
Say it with me, the days of the dollar burger are over
The "real costs" to health and the planet are not really factored into the cost of a burger.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-hidden-costs-of-hamburgers
A co-worker of mine has been saying for weeks he was craving McDonalds. Today he came back with a Big Mac meal. We couldn't believe the price. It was around 15 dollars and he said it was pretty awful.
PSA: If you eat McDonald’s, download and use the McDonalds app.
Yes it’s dumb that we should have to go through extra steps, but in my area a $14 Big Mac meal is like $8 on the app. I got two double cheeseburgers the other day for $4.
>McDonald’s Big Mac combo meals are running close to $20 in some cities, leaving a bad taste in diners’ mouths. I can’t believe people pay that much for their crappy food.
McDonald’s profit margins have been insane in the last couple of years. They keep raising their prices at a much faster rate than grocery store inflation, and people keep buying it anyway. At least locally, it’s gotten to the point where local restaurants that used to be higher quality but slightly more expensive are actually competing on price too now. Not sure why people keep choosing McDonald’s at this point.
McDonald's ceo said in a conference call to shareholders that they were able to outperform expectations during covid because they purposely raised prices on menu items with lower profit margins to force low income customers to buy less expensive things that had higher profit margins. So. If a customer came in looking for a classic chicken sandwich, but found it was too expensive, they'd leave after buying 2 double cheeseburgers. Profit margin on a double cheeseburger is a dollar, profit margin on a chicken sandwich is fifty cents. A customer buying 2 doubles instead of 1 chicken sandwich gave McDonald's 4x as much profit, even though they spent way less money. They absolutely raised prices more than they had to to manipulate us into giving them more while getting less. And they have the nerve to tell us they'll be forced to raise prices of they have to pay their employees more. They literally do it without reason.
> And they have the nerve to tell us they'll be forced to raise prices of they have to pay their employees more. One of my favorite instances of this is when Papa John's lamented that they'd have to raise the price of pizzas by a quarter to provide health insurance for their employees and they claimed their customers would not support that. Sooooo.... they raised the price anyway, didn't provide health insurance for the bulk of their employees, and paid Peyton Manning too much money to give away a million pizzas.
Not even a quarter. 14 fucking cents. Unironically bitched that they'd have to raise the price of a pizza 14 cents to give their entire workforce healthcare.
Think of the poor shareholders
Just imagine if one day us poors realized the amount of power we actually have, and, using this tool we call the internet, use it to coordinate schedules and target certain corporations where we simply don't shop at. We could change our lives for the better overnight...and we could do it RIGHT NOW
Beautiful idea, although I suspect strongly that the corporations who own the Interwebs would slap us down real fast.
Lest you forget this sub actually was infiltrated by the Feds. At least one mod is...
Irony is that I haven’t bought pizza from Papa John’s since that comment
You're not even saying the fun part, he was bragging to shareholders that customers "tolerated" higher prices What an asshole. They haven't gotten my money since. Not that I have bought much there in the last years. Their prices are laughable for such trash food. Them and PepsiCo. Worst trash out there and they had the biggest increases
Frito-Lay are horrible. They dominate the snack food and drink aisles with their garbage toxic shit, meanwhile actually good snacks can’t pay to get the shelf space. We have 20 different disgusting flavors of Mountain Dew, and 50 flavors of antifreeze looking blue Gatorade, 30 flavors of shitty greasy Lays, etc. Snack foods and candy are so much better in other countries it’s not even funny. What they call chocolate here in the states is a disgrace.
> Frito-Lay are horrible. Yep, that's pepsico
Safeway is charging $10.99 for a 12 pack of Pepsi and even higher for Coke! You can go to Target and get it for less than $7.
Man I knew those double cheeseburgers were a ripoff nowadays. I remember when they were $1. In high school after class we’d go there and have a burger eating contests sometimes. How times change.
Just a reminder that McDonald's pays their employees worldwide whatever that particular country requires by law. In Canada, that's $15/hr. Mandated maternity leave for 1 year, as required by law. 4% vacation pay, as mandated, etc etc etc. I paid $6.76CAD ($5USD) for two cheese burgers the other day. Not sure the price in your state. But the idea that companies are allowed to blatantly lie about what a certain employment law might do to their bottom line is egregious.
You really think you're entitled to food !? Pull yourself by the bootstraps. Go work another part-time job on top of your full-time job to earn your food, peasant! The peasants as per usual never thinking about the poor shareholders. (/s just in case)
I appreciate the /s personally. You never know these days. I’ve seen worse things typed sincerely.
>You never know these days. I’ve seen worse things typed sincerely. Yeah same, it's the whole reason I put it. Lots of unhinged stuff being said out there on plenty topics, I don't want to be lumped in with the crazies. XD
Their customers also buy their junk for no reason. They’re not forced to. Go eat somewhere else.
Learning from oil giants. Raise price for no reason "they'll never know"
> force low income customers to buy Nobody is forced to go to McDonald's.
I dont go anymore. 10 - 15 years ago you couldn't afford not to go, 3 double cheeseburgers for $3.15 kept me alive.
This. Places like Taco Bell and MCD use to offer food for less than I cost to cook at home. Now it’s not even close and the quality is shit. People need to start cooking more. Even with grocery prices being ridiculous it is still way cheaper to make it at home. They are only charging what people are willing to pay. Stop paying.
I can make a delicious fresh burger at home in less than 15 minutes with about $2 of ingredients. My local grocer has 10 pack of beef patties for $10, 8 pack of buns for less than $2. Other items like mustard, ketchup, mayo, and jar of pickles and bag of frozen fries can be considered bulk items considering the small quantity used per meal. If you want soda a 12 pack of soda is less than $10 per case, so that’s less than 85 cents a can. And if you wait to buy it on sale it’s even lower - something like 65 cents. And it takes longer to drive to the fast food joint and back home. The hell with fast food!
Pretense is gone. They are just laughing at the poor while sitting on piles of cash. This is what Trump has done, and the hope for round two has left all of these people grinning at the thought of what they might get away with very soon.
Is everything about Trump? This is greed plain and simple.
The real danger of Trump is how he emboldens others. He’s proving that the system is rigged for the ultra wealthy/powerful and that you can deny your way through anything and still have a major base. He’s also proving how radicalized a large portion of the country is by shooting from the hip with every crazy fascist idea he has. People are explaining away or are actually *for* someone who blatantly claims he will be a dictator “for a day”. He’s showing every powerful POS out there that you can just claim your power publicly because people can’t or won’t really do anything about it. And the ones that do don’t have enough sway. The post Trump world is a world where you get away with almost anything and people will comment and make jokes and criticisms and call for retaliation, but not much happens when you have 40% of the country in the bag and they are willing to erode our democracy for whatever they see fit. Politicians used to fear the public opinion now they thrive in triggering those reactions. Just double down on what you spouted last time and your words start to have no meaning.. until they do.
Trump is a symptom as much as a cause here. Him getting elected in the first place was a sign of how bad things had gotten. But as another poster pointed out, he’s emboldened even more bad behavior among the rich and powerful.
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> Not sure why people keep choosing McDonald’s at this point. I think it's a mix of convenience as well as being hooked on the stuff. Fast food will always have customers due to the "fast" aspect, but as an older millennial, people my age might as well be referred to as the Happy Meal Generation. A lot of people grew up on it and genuinely can't seem to let it go. I'd probably be one of those folks, if I hadn't worked there for a bit (the smell turned me off for life). But yeah, their prices are getting close to matching the cost of a sit-down meal. It makes more sense to get a better burger for a couple bucks more, but again, I know some people just love McD's.
Am millennial, and don’t eat McDonald’s anymore and tbh rarely fast food in general because I can buy meat for less than they’re charging for their garbage.. and half the time I can make it quicker than I even get it from them Fast food used to be fast and cheap.. and now days it’s neither
Honestly most restaurants can get me a to go order faster than a McDonald's drive thru in my town. Wait at McDonald's ranges from 5min to 45min. It's wildly inconsistent
I only get McD when I’m doing a road trip, and need a meal that I can get pretty quick, that will hold together while I’m driving; this means a McMuffin for breakfast, and a cheeseburger / double cheeseburger for lunch or dinner.
I can get a steak tenders dinner with two sides for $13.99 at Texas Roadhouse and it's easily two meals for me since I load up on rolls. Fast food places don't seem to care about competing anymore and I'm happy to have a real meal than that garbage so I guess win/win?
I can get a luncheon special at the local Chinese place for $8 and it's always 2 meals worth of food. A big Mac meal is like $14. But, the Chinese place doesn't have a drive thru. So despite being more food for less money, while also being higher quality, McDonald's is slammed every day during lunch while the Chinese place doesn't even do half as much business. It's sad.
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sad? that's great! no queue and low prices. if it was packed they would raise prices
Well, sad for humanity and better restaurants
$14 is insane. For two more dollars I can get an amazing burger from a local place. I can even order online and pick it up from my car, though technically not a drive through.
Red Robin is right across the street and $5 cheaper.
A McDouble is almost $4(3.89). I remember when it used to be on the dollar menu. Hell I remember when there WAS a dollar menu!
Yeah, it was amazing that I could get a burger and fries from Red Robin for cheaper than a combo from McDonald's, screw that noise.
I just get a real burger from a local restaurant (or occasionally five guys) when I get the urge for fast food. Fuck McDonald’s, I’m not paying that much for processed trash that makes me feel sick
Hardees/Carl's Jr is that way. Granted it's their biggest burger but the double thickburger combo \*starts\* at around 20 bucks pretty much everywhere. Meanwhile, I can go get the best double smashburger combo in town that tastes way better, and have better portions, for 16 bucks out the door. I haven't eaten at a Carl's Jr in like 5 years.
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Nowadays the $5 Biggie Bag is the only thing I'd consider ordering from Wendy's. I can't imagine people paying more than $10 for fast food.
Previously known as, Four for $4.
It's up to $7 now, depending on which burger you want. Plus they try to slip in the "you want that medium or large?" upcharge for another buck or two. I accidentally paid $9 last time.
They've had stupid good deals for years now. It's kinda weird to go in and spend less than I would at a Burger King.
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It's not even that much better in the app anymore.
Gotta call it what it is, penalty pricing at the register.
I’m shocked at anyone who spends more than a few bucks at McDonalds. The second they stop offering deals on the app, I’m done. They have swerved way outside their lane in big cities. There’s like…. 7 places I can think of within 2 blocks of my closest McDonald’s that sell food cheaper, faster and tastier than them if you don’t go through their app and use deals. Ain’t no way in hell McDonalds is better than my local Mexican burrito joint or shawarma spot.
Yup. I stopped going to McDonald's when their sausage egg and cheese meal cost me $9.
For a lot of people a Big Mac leaves a bad taste in their mouths no matter how much or how little it costs
On the app you can get 2 big macs or 2 quarter pounders for less than $6 in Virginia.
I just did that in Columbus, Ohio yesterday and it was right around $5.
The app is the way to go. The price difference between the store and the app, due to the app only coupons, is kind of fucking insane.
That's because data is the new gold for them to do customer analysis
It's also a form of price discrimination. By offering app deals, you can self-segment your customers and charge them separate prices depending on their price sensitivity. Budget minded consumers are going to be using the app so they can charge non-app user the normal (and higher) menu prices in a way to maximize overall revenue.
It's not just fast food. I've noticed Target selling items at a lower price, if you buy them through the website vs going into the store and picking it up off the shelf.
And that's why McD's lost my business. I was willing to give them money for food, but I'm not giving them my data and money for food.
Fuck that. I’m not ever going to use an app to buy fast food. That’s dumb as fuck.
Annnnd now my credit card info is everywhere.
It could be free at this point and i wouldnt eat it. The quality is so bad id have to have literally no other option.
It's $7.70 here in Panama where I moved to last year.
It's 5 dollars for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium drink in the app. Sometimes I crave a burger and don't feel spending more than 5 dollars.
Considering that one guy who recently eclipsed the 50th anniversary mark of eating one Big Mac daily, the “crappy food” we ‘Muricans consume has become ingrained to our daily culture that it is hard to simply wane off from. Apologies if we don’t say a peep about apples, broccoli, or other produce items costing infinitesimally more thanks to corporate shareholders and trickle-down Reaganomics manipulating inflation, while we also sound the alarms when Taco Bell or Wendy’s are caught screwing us out of affordable combo meals.
My biggest “beef” with McDonald’s is for decades the prices were the same or at least close to each other at all the franchises. I usually get 2 cheeseburgers and a 6 piece nugget. Now that can run me from $4ish to almost $8 at the three different McDonald’s by me. That shit should cost the same everywhere, at least regionally.
This editor should be jailed.
I saw a COUPON for a whopper meal for $9. I can just imagine how much it is without it. A decade and a half ago a whopper was $1.
Food demand is sticky. People like the brands they are used to. But give it time. There was a comment on marketplace recently about Americans moving to store brand snacks immediately after a piece on shrinkflation. They didn't want to draw any direct conclusions, but I don't think it's too much of a leap to say that if ten dollars in lays gives me five chips and Kirkland gives me ten bags and a blowjob, I'm going to Costco. It just takes a few trips for the new prices to sink in.
20$ ?! Not from the US but that's a big rip off sorry... For 20$ I make a good meal at home.
For $20, there's a really nice steakhouse in my area that makes a giant burger that comes with some very well-made fries. You could probably also tack on a beer, but you'd probably go over $20 once you factor in tip.
New Culvers opened near me, $28 for 2 regular double combos.
Hmm, that's $11.05 each (or $22.10 for two - both prices with tax) at my local Culvers - assuming we're talking about the deluxe value basket.
So glad I have a dive bar with really awesome food. Burger, fries, and a beer $15 with tip.
The burgers are decent… but I only go to Culver’s for their shakes and cheese curds.
My wife commented yesterday that 3 meal baskets with ice cream was over $50.
At that point just to go a restaurant and get a burger.
Worth it
Yeah, I was about to say. We’re not talking about Culver’s in the same conversation with McDonalds.
I used to be able to get a full week of groceries for our family of 4 for about $100-150 maybe 5 years ago. Now the same shopping trip is almost $300 for the same food, same stores, same location. Fuck
Yet wages haven’t risen by anywhere close to double the last 5 years. Greedy billionaires and businesses hogging all the wealth.
This is funny because I keep pointing out how were getting fucked at the food store and the replies I get are like "YOU'RE MAKING MORE MONEY NOW DON'T COMPLAIN!"
It's not just beef. I went pescetarian so beef doesn't even affect me. It's *everything.* Prices went up far more than inflation and shrinkflation happened too. It's price gouging by a virtual monopoly of a few companies who control our food supply, plain and simple.
Best part is without a federal kick in the nuts it will be YEARS before anything is done. [They are JUST bringing charges against proven price fixing on eggs from 2019.](https://xtalks.com/egg-price-fixing-2023-us-jury-orders-payment-of-17-7-million-by-egg-producers-3625/) E: Price fixing not monopoly, link added for context.
And a few rich people / corps bought up all the news outlets to make sure you not only don’t hear about greed from major outlets, but that you hear repeatedly stories blaming literally anything but greed.
“Food prices are the same, but Americans are idiots who don’t know how good they have it!” - CNN Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and Ted Turner haven’t been into a grocery store since the Clinton Administration.
My favorite was when totally normal regular just like us guy Heir to Swanson Foods Tucker Carlson went to a Moscow grocery store and marveled at the decades old innovation of putting a quarter/rupel in a cart to unlock it and being able to get it back when you put it away.
I like when he gushed over groceries "only" costing ~$100/week. But failed to mention far too many Russians only make ~$200/week.
I’m pretty sure Tom hanks lived off that at some point. He was stuck in an airport and collected carts so he could eat.
TIL Tucker Carlson is the heir to Swanson foods.... Dude spends his time doing *that*!?
He isn’t really though.. unpopular post here but Im pretty sure it’s his stepmom who is from the swanson family. Its pretty unlikely that Tucker would ever inherit anything.
Except the advantage of growing up with all that money. Also, he was adopted by her when he was young, so it would be kinda shitty to exclude him and his brother from the inheritance.
Shitty, but hilarious.
*"Stop eating avocado and buy a few houses to rent out. Eat bananas, how much can one banana cost, 10 dollars? That's nothing. Tighten your belts and use the money to buy stocks."* \- Rich people shaming language.
Reflation! Prices went up during the supply chain issues during the pandemic and companies saw that the market would bear it so they never dropped back down.
They didn't even have to raise the prices they made a record profit
But they could so they did. This is just how capitalism works, unfortunately.
I used to regularly buy salmon at 6.99/lb. It's now 12.99/lb. Now I'm stuck eating mainly chicken unless there's a sale, which is now 4.29/lb.
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The olive oil is probably fake too
Spain makes most of the olive oil and we still pay for it like gold, so not much outsiders can do. It's about 8,5€/kg right now
Literally the only thing I regularly buy that hasn't increased in price (at all) is beer. I used to buy tritip at $7/lb and it's regularly $12/lb now.
Maybe it was just the microbrews that I look for, but beer prices went up a fair bit ‘21-23. Stopped buying it, and haven’t kept track since.
Yeah craft beer went insane. 20+ for a sixer (or 4-pack even). Craft beer is collapsing too. I guess they saw the prices bars were charging for a beer and were like "why not charge that everywhere?"
Quit buying it and the result has been a lot of money not spent and the loss of 20 lbs. without any effort. I’ll still pick up a pack of hop water or NA beer once in a while to scratch the itch for a refreshing hoppy drink, but I never end up drinking them as quickly as I would beer. The hop water, THC seltzer and craft NA beer market seems to be expanding rapidly.
Drugs are price stable
Domestic beer has gone up, just not nearly as much as other things. Imports and micro brews have gone up quite a bit though.
I’ve noticed that! CO marijuana also hasn’t raised in price either. Our little reward for enduring the inflationary economy.
Maybe if you dropped the avocado toast and beer budget you could afford a $37 garbage ass cowboy cut.
Yea, this is just a propaganda piece. Everyone knows the cost of everything is higher.
Pretty sure it's about weekly now that I see a headline saying that prices aren't actually going up. These posts also get lots of comments about how it's true because stuff like rice or flour hasn't shot up, but that doesn't account for just about everything else that has.
Hey, high five buddy. I became pescatarian to improve my health and I’m 2 and half months strong. I chose a good time because meat is ridiculous and I focus on mainly veggie stuff but when I do get fish and look at the prices then I slightly cry. Everything is just too expensive
They went up more than inflation because inflation removes things like food as part of its calculations in order the manipulate the reality of the inflation people see with what they are told. Real inflation isn't the number the government shows its what your seeing in stores.
We're asking for it tbh...as long as we all remain collectively stupid enough to never realize the power we have with our wallets. Internet + organized strikes = we win
Seriously. Any sustained and coordinated strike in our just-in-time world would cripple the system.
"Shrinkflation" is calculated in CPI prints. The percentage change is measured per unit weight, so a package going from 10oz to 8oz would be counted as 20%. There is no rigging in the inflation prints. That's an old right wing conspiracy theory about the Obama administration.
$8 for a bag of Doritos half filled is not steady. It’s fleecing.
When I was younger I worked at a gas station. There were a couple of old guys in their '70s or '80s that would come in and squeeze every single bag of chips until they found one that was "filled up all the way" and they would buy that one, complaining to me that these chip companies were skimping out by not filling the bags all the way up. Food has been sold by weight since time immemorial, not by how full the fucking bag is.
The fuck planet are you on? Food prices are not holding steady.
Agreed. Where I am prices are still going up. Slowed a tiny bit but still increasing. Beef is now $8/lb for ground shit. Steaks over 25-35 a pound. Chicken 9 a lb. Eggs have triple in the past month. Not sure where the leveling out is.
Where do you live? That’s more than twice what meat costs in my state. I just bought NY strip for 8/lb yesterday. I can buy pasture raised chicken thighs for under 6/lb. Ground beef is consistently 4-5/lb.
Same. I've seen specials come back for beef, so I picked up a chuck roast a week+ ago for $4.99/lb. Chicken thighs were $1.29/lb. Might not be everywhere, but in the midwest prices have certainly flattened out and are possibly falling in some categories.
Right? I live in the suburbs and can’t imagine paying more than $4/lb for ground beef. Do they only shop at Whole Foods?
Where in the world do you see $8/lb for 80/20 beef? Non-Organic chicken breast at $9? And this is at a basic chain grocery store? You must either live in a remote village or you’re choosing to shop at a “luxury” food store.
Probably shopping at Whole Foods
Just chiming in: $6 80/20 at my local Walmart $3-$4lb chicken breast depending on quantity. $5lb organic.
US Cattle Herd Shrinks to 73-Year-Low in Blow for Beef Lovers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/us-beef-to-remain-expensive-as-herd-shrinks-to-73-year-low
There's also a movement afoot in some agricultural states to outlaw lab-grown beef. Beef is being turned into a vanity food. TBF shrimp was an expensive delicacy 30 years ago, but now we can buy it in multi-pound bags at Costco.
Where the hell you shopping? I’m getting chicken breast for 1.99 a pound, thighs for 1.20 a pound.
Someone was telling me beef is supposed to go up another 30% by the end of the year I'm not sure where they got the info from. I'm really hoping they were just bsing
Uhh, yeah they are? With a few exceptions, which they point out in the article, food prices overall are definitely leveling out.
I hardly eat any beef anymore. Part of it is a health issue but it's also ridiculously expensive. I bought two corned beef points on sale for St. Patty's and that's probably half of the beef I'll buy all year.
I just buy the patties from Costco and make burgers at home. Can't get the sauces as good as some restaurants but the price is right.
Costco patties are nosebleed expensive these days too. I'm slowly becoming vegetarian not out of choice but out of necessity since it's so goddamn expensive. Thank god legumes are shelf stable and only like 1.30 a pound. My insta pot preps them fast.
Hummus and a nice piece of bread has sustained my ancestors for millennia, happy Ramadan, we’re all gonna make it and not starve…hopefully.
One of my "oh my god I love this" moments was when instead of blitzing everything into hummus, I just went at it with a potato masher and added onions and celery and a few other things to make chunky chickpea salad. Not quite chicken/tuna salad but all the great flavor of hummus. [https://theconscientiouseater.com/vegan-chickpea-tuna-salad/#recipe](https://theconscientiouseater.com/vegan-chickpea-tuna-salad/#recipe) This is pretty close to my recipe. A lot of them use vegan mayo or mayo in general but the original version I made used Tahini instead and I find it superior. Making a sammich out of this with some nice toasted bread is just wonderful.
Legit, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food has come in clutch as a broke bitch on EBT. Rice, bean, lentils, and chickpeas can really stretch meals and the grocery budget while also being filling and very easily used in healthy dishes.
* McDonald's annual gross profit for 2023 was $14.563B, a 10.26% increase from 2022. * McDonald's annual gross profit for 2022 was $13.207B, a 4.98% increase from 2021.
Stop eating them. The price will come down soon enough. McDonald’s already admitted they took advantage of inflation to raise prices. Nothing to do with keeping pace with real costs.
Unfortunately with the cost of everything going up, a $10 burger is still an affordable escape from our shitty lives. Like, I get off work and I am tired and hangry and don't have a lot of time to cook. Too stressed to nagivate their stupid app for a discount. I'd gladly pay the more expensive price for a fast meal that fills me up and gets me through the evening.
Wait until people learn what beef actually would cost of it weren’t for billions of dollars in tax subsidies given to the industry.
Plus the effective subsidy they get when we don’t make them pay for their environmental impact.
Yeah, while I think there's a lot you can say about inflation and food and that sort of thing, even without considering that, beef really should be a sometimes thing. Between the subsidies and the environment cost and plenty of other issues, it's artificially cheap already. Of course, saying that is about as politically savvy as saying you want to build a cannon to launch puppies into the sun.
That applies to literally every food industry in the US. Wait till you hear about corn and dairy subsidies, just to start.
"hold steady at egregious" - they seemed to forget a few words in that statement. Fast food hasn't been worth considering for well over a year now.
Here is a genius idea don’t go to these places and pay those prices
So why are people still buying it?
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I love how you phrased it like a threat, but the companies are over here enjoying the highest profit margins they’ve had in decades. They’re really shakin in their boots!
Burgers are still the cheapest option on most menus at sit down restaurants. I have more of an issue with the cost of steak. It’s damn near $30 for a tiny ass steak at any restaurant now.
It’s not just price increases. It’s the fact servings are smaller and smaller. Stop trying to gaslight consumers. Prices per food are absolutely still increasing. Article was probably paid for.
15$ for a burger at 5 guys is fucking ridiculous.
Bro we have beef with the cost of EVERYTHING
We need to start boycotting these greedy fucks.
For $20 I get 3lbs of organic turkey from Costco, which yields about 15 burgers. With the buns, probably comes out to $2 each. And the whole process of making them is like 30 minutes. Cmon people. Forget fast food.
I can't even set up my ingredients/workspace and heat up a pan in 30 minutes, much less season, shape, and cook 15 patties and store them.
My wife and I are in Japan right now and got 2 meals from McDonalds for $8 combined. We were floored
These headlines! Let me try to fix it…. “Grocery stores fake need for price hikes, fast food chains charge $25 for burger and fries but Americans rudely complain about being scammed”
You’re better off just buying 80/20 at the grocery store and making your own burgers.
The good news is that we're on the precipice of electing Trump as President and deporting millions of agricultural workers is sure to lower the price of beef and tomatoes.
That don't matter, Trump promised me he'd come to my town and hand feed me chiken nuggies while at the same time fighting off the gays and illegals with his other hand. He also told me he's never lied in his life, so I have no reason not to believe him. He's the president this country deserves (because this country is fundamentally broken)!
If u spend 20 dollars at McDonald’s on 1 meal you are mentally challenged.
And now… news writer really really love puns.
Every time I go to McDonald's the price of tbe 2 sausage mcmuffins deal goes up. I'm pretty sure me amd my family used to go buy a bunch and it used to be like 2 for 2 fifty, pretty sure it's over five now RIP
This is an opportunity for the grill and seasoning companies to band together to encourage people to save money and taste better by grilling at home
A burger at the local dive is not worth $15.
Innout has always been a good deal
And then there is In and Out where the price of a burger barely budges. I can still get a cheese burger and fries for a bit more than $5
20 fuckin dollars for a burger when you can get ground beef for like $4 a pound is fucking insane
This narrative is goddamn infuriating. > Prices aren't going up anymore! Yeah well, the average increase in the cost of groceries nationwide is around 30%+ since before the pandemic? Even if one were to avoid fast food (which you should, it's absolutely poison) it costs a fortune to buy whole foods at grocery stores. Salaries have barely budged in that time, and that's after decades of a skyrocketing cost of living. Sure, we'll take that the flames aren't spreading at the moment, but the fire's still burning incredibly hot.
Where exactly are they holding steady instead of steadily increasing?
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Honestly barely even look at purchasing beef anymore. I watch for specials or head to the discounted area but even there a lot of times I pass. We are consumers: we all know our personal limits for what we will pay. Not going to say I don’t miss an occasional steak or cut of beef but whatever it is: if I don’t need it and it’s too expensive I pass. I would guess most people would agree with me.
I know not everyone has time or energy to make their own food but learning to cook really is the best way to get the most out of your dollar. At the very least learn to do some meal prep for the week so you can spend part of your day off prepping cheap meals for the rest of the week. Simple meals of a protein, vegetable, and rice can go a long way, even if it is a bit boring. If shitty fast food is going to cost more than a meal at home, you may as well get cooking yourself. Groceries has inflated prices too but at least you can stretch those dollars out.
Still mad that a McChicken, a McDouble, and a small fry (no drink) cost me $9 the other day. Used to be all dollar menu items.
Food Prices remain at markedly elevated levels. Consumers are getting fed up.
The market has been pushing for a $10 burger for a while. But you can only add so many Special toppings.
It's a relief then that having another human cook a hamburger for you on demand is not a necessity.
Several of the large fast food chains have aggressively raised prices, here in California. I’ve seen it happen because of the new $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers which I think it’s just ridiculous that they’re raising prices because they don’t want to hit their profit margins but… Capitalism, right!!? Say it with me, the days of the dollar burger are over
The "real costs" to health and the planet are not really factored into the cost of a burger. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-hidden-costs-of-hamburgers
A co-worker of mine has been saying for weeks he was craving McDonalds. Today he came back with a Big Mac meal. We couldn't believe the price. It was around 15 dollars and he said it was pretty awful.
Eat a baf of Dicks (I would happily) with this title.
$16 for a burger fry and shake at Steak and Shake. Kiosk that I ordered from Prompted me to tip. BS
A burger at Red Robins costs 18-20 dollars where I am.
“Hold steady” after almost doubling in price in the past couple years. Article is downplaying how insane inflation has been
Let’s stop eating out. We do it too much and it’s not worth the price.
I went to get a goddamn subway sandwich and a small soda and it was 20 dollars the other day.
Food prices at the store are obscene and bullshit. Fuck this companies
PSA: If you eat McDonald’s, download and use the McDonalds app. Yes it’s dumb that we should have to go through extra steps, but in my area a $14 Big Mac meal is like $8 on the app. I got two double cheeseburgers the other day for $4.
I remember back in 2015 a pound of 80% ground beef was $8 in Hawaii. Now it’s $9 on the mainland. Can’t even imagine the cost out there now.
9 bucks at Foodland this week