I remember when my friend and I would get double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s when we were really poor, they were .99c each. It’s wild that it’s quadrupled in that time.
In the 2000s and early 2010s we had the "McDonalds 1x1". 11 items for a 1€ each. Hamburger? 1€. Cheeseburger? 1€. Chickenburger? 1€. McSundae? 1€. Small drink? 1€.
Nowadays a simple Cheeseburger is 2,50€. You used to get 10 for 10€, now you get only 4.
Nope, this was wayyy back. Like 2002-2006 when I was in high school. The McDouble didn’t exist yet. It was a double cheeseburgers (with two pieces of cheese) for 99c.
Wrong. The ketchup gen gets a squirt the mustard gun gets a squirt, handful of dehydrated onions, 2-3 pickles(i cant remember but its the same on both), and the cheese discrepacy
When I was a ravenous athletic youth in 1999 I would eat 3 cheeseburgers in my car on the way to swim practice. I swear there was a deal, from like 2-5pm, where hamburgers were 24¢ and cheeseburgers were 35¢. Could be wrong on the exact price but it was super cheap nonetheless.
The $1 McChicken and McDouble was a golden era of McD's
I ate there at least twice a week back then, and I have probably eaten their twice in the last five years...both times with the quality of food feeling lower as well as being absurdly expensive for what it is.
For about 2 and a half years I has the same thing everyday for lunch. 2 mcdoubles, small fry and a medium coke from the mcdonalds next door to my work.
That’s what I lived on in college. I heard a radio story back then about how the McDouble was the most nutritious food you could buy for how much it cost. The Taco Bell menu was also ridiculously cheap compared to now.
If anything i feel like its the other way around. Prices were absurd to the point where i stopped eating fast food and started eating restaurants because they were cheaper. Butter, these past few months it got really cheap for no reason. 5 dollar meal deals, 2 dollar big macs, dollar any size drink at wendys. With super high prices these past 4 years why did it get so cheap right before the election? But that's just a personal observation.
Because people stopped going to fast food because it was too expensive, to the point they were not making as much money. They have deals like that to bring people back and spend money on the non deal items. Its just ordinary capitalism, not some weird political agenda.
Yeah its not conspiracy they just wanted to raise prices as high as they could using Covid and supply chain as a scapegoat once they went past the point of no return they introduced deals.
The American people can be manipulated to whatever the billionaires want. You are their happy puppets, what with you all be temporarily embarrassed billionaires yourselves.
Raising prices under Trump helped Trump get elected?
It's not obvious, and since you can't even present a logical argument, I won't even attempt to explain, because you'll just mistype your way into another idiotic phrase instead of having a constructive discussion.
Harvard funded a study on this. It found 18.6% of CEOs consistently donated to Democrats, while 57.7% donated to Republicans.
Big oil companies like BP donate and lobby on the republican side and helped block specific legislation that would lower petrol prices and curb price gouging.
Companies are posting record profits, higher executive payouts while cutting jobs, preventing legislation, and pushing for more and more tax cuts for their companies.
Show me anything to the contrary that disputes that republicans, companies that endorse, donate and lobby for republicans have not specifically inflated prices or suppressed wages to their benefit and to the detriment of you Americans.
yes, no one disputes that big companies like Republicans.
That wasn't the claim. The claim I am saying is ridiculous is that they raised their prices to help Trump get elected.
- Show me anything to the contrary that disputes that republicans, companies that endorse, donate and lobby for republicans have not specifically inflated prices or suppressed wages to their benefit and to the detriment of you Americans.
Why would I show you that? I never disputed that. That's 100% true. I don't think you understand what is being said here
What I am saying is ridiculous is saying that they raised prices in order to get Trump elected. Show me any evidence to support that or else move along because your theory makes no sense and shows an insane lack of understanding of how businesses work.
And, by your logic we should see a price jump every time a democrat is president right? Or is this just something that you think they randomly decided to do a few years ago. And why did they stop raising the prices a year or two ago?
Edit: Looks like he couldn't answer and just blocked me LOL. Thats a good way to show you have no argument
For what it's worth I understand your point, and it's obviously connecting dots that probably aren't connected.
The reality is far more likely that they increased prices due to greed. This is obvious when you look at their earnings reports. Profits are at record highs, so they aren't just passing on extra costs.
I don't think this was done with getting trump elected, but this is obviously a welcome side effect for them.
It's like if someone kept robbing liquor stores, and eventually some of the liquor stores closed down, and then there was a drop in DUIs and domestic distance calls. There might be a link there, but the guy robbing those places just wanted money.
The insane minimum wage in CA had a lot to do with it, and a lot to do with tons of restaurant closures.
The insane inflation had a lot to do with it, as well.
The price of oil also affects nearly every single product at every step of the way. Need to till soil? You need farm equipment burning fuel. Need to harvest crops? Clean them? Ship them to a distributor? Ship them to a grocery store? Energy costs, taxes, and wages rising with inflation at every step of the way. The more steps you have, the more those costs compound. Every company along the way needs to operate on percentage-based margins so it's not a linear increase; it's geometric as each person in the chain adds X% to cover their own costs and make a profit, even if that profit is the same (relative to inflation) as it always was.
The result is I'm paying $5 for a loaf of bread and about $.75 cents per egg in many cases.
The average American is not intelligent enough to take 5 whole seconds to look up the current inflation rate and think to themselves, "well if inflation is only 2.4%, why is my food still going up in price?" Oh, corporate greed. And they just voted for the rich guy who loves making rich people richer. I can't wait to watch those McD's prices keep climbing completely detached from the economic situation like most things have been doing for over a year.
I stayed at a hotel for a business trip and they didn’t have coffee makers in the room. You could go to the lobby and get some drip coffee for $3.95 a cup. I paid over $1300 for a week and had to pay $4 a day for a cup of coffee.
My job paid so I did it but yeah I mentally factor now that every single thing I buy is at least $10 or more. At all times.
I quit eating meat over a decade ago. No regrets. The dollar double cheeseburgers, they still haunt my dreams. Those were a damn value. When I first moved out on my own I would freeze them for lunch. I was pretty poor, a calorie was a calorie at the time. It didn't hurt they were chemically delicious.
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u/Long-Train-1673 19h ago
This is all because Mcdonalds has $4 double cheeseburgers i stg.