+- Edward Snowden -- 900d ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | OK, so you guys showed me McDonald's jacked prices at least 130% on the core budget item: the mcchicken. Mentally | | recalculating McDs as "literally more than twice as expensive is a doozy, sure but what I really wanna know: did | | they do any shrinkflation on top of that to really wring out the margin? Smaller patties, cups, fries, cheese or | | something? Or was it all just pure price action? | | | +-- reply ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2 replies] ---+OK, so you guys showed me McDonald's jacked prices at least 130% on the core budget item: the mcchicken. Mentally recalculating McDs as "literally more than twice as expensive is a doozy, sure but what I really wanna know: did they do any shrinkflation on top of that to really wring out the margin? Smaller patties, cups, fries, cheese or something? Or was it all just pure price action?
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OK, so you guys showed me McDonald's jacked prices at least 130% on the core budget item: the mcchicken.Mentally recalculating McDs as "literally more than twice as expensive is a doozy, sure but what I really wannaknow: did they do any shrinkflation on top of that to really wring out the margin? Smaller patties, cups, fries,cheese or something? Or was it all just pure price action?
I don’t know any specifics but I suspect the “quality” of their “food” is significantly poorer than it used to be.
I'm interested to know if the product varies between countries too. Is a US big mac the same thing as a Japanese big mac?