>McDonald's is offering a $2.50 McDouble for a limited time on its McValue menu — but some customers argue the so-called "deal" highlights how far fast-food prices have climbed. >"On social media, some folks have voiced their distaste for McDonald's seemingly never-ending price increases, claiming that customers are falling for the old switcheroo," The Takeout reported. >"Anyone remember when McDoubles used to be 99 cents? It was only 10 years ago," a Reddit user wrote, in part.
>>22009342 they literally removed the mcdouble in all mcdonalds near me. There was a time it was literally the cheapest meat protein you can buy and perfect for workout bulking.. guess me and other gym rats buying 13 mcdoubles every other day was too much. Fucking cunts.
>>22009342 I can count the amount of times I've been to McDonalds in the last 10 years on one hand. I don't feel as if I miss anything other than the option
>According to MacroTrends, McDonald's annual gross profit for 2025 was $15.435 billion, a 4.93% increase from 2024. The company reported a net income of $8.56 billion for the full year 2025, with diluted earnings per share at $11.95, representing a 5% increase.
So the line is still going up despite near tripling of menu favorites, millenial grey remodeling, shrinkflation, and what the fuck else we can all see. I wonder why that is. The size is down, quality is down, and price is up resulting in much more profit to the company. Should they stop this trajectory if its benefiting them?
>>22009711 >get people addicted to your food because it's fast, cheap, and edible >increase price >people keep buying it because it's still fast and edible
>>22009722 >get people addicted to your food Shut the fuck up. There is no chemical additiction. What they have is brand momentum, not addicted consumers. >>22009714 >uhh, ackshually, they make money from sources other than food! Then why are they in the food business. Couldn't they make so much more money simply being a real estate company? No? Wow, you don't know what you're talking about.
>>22009766 >It’s been listed as such since the nineties. Listed where? On your schizo notepad? Again, if they're making most of their profit, more than their food side, why are they still bothering with that whole selling food thing?
Fast food and especially McDonald's IS overpriced but it's impossible to have an actual dialogue about this because all you get is fat fucking retards crying that things were cheaper decades ago.
Something that's pissed me off for a while. >Cheeseburger: One patty, one slice of cheese >Double Cheeseburger: Two patties, two slices of cheese >McDouble: Two patties, one slice of cheese >Triple Cheeseburger: Three patties, two slices of cheese Shouldn't it be three patties, three slices of cheese? I'd have expected the Triple Cheeseburger to be called the McTriple if they they're only adding an extra patty to the Double.
>>22009780 >Again, if they're making most of their profit, more than their food side, why are they still bothering with that whole selling food thing? you know nothing of the long game. mcd's knows that eventually it will stop the slop and become landlords.
22009780 >Listed where? On your schizo notepad? nigger just take the L and go home Not even going to give you the (You), you're so pathetic newfags ffs
Short of literally walking into a Tyson board meeting and executing them all I don't really see a solution. The Big Four are a cartel and the Big Four are suppressing the herd count by refusing to buy enough to meet consumer demand. Every single rancher wants to raise more cattle. They have the capacity. The Big Four won't buy, so the ranchers can only try to cope by selling direct to consumers but the market for people buying a quarter cow and throwing it into the freezer is not the same scale.
>>22009346 Who the fuck is spending money at McDonalds if the food is dogshit and made by a third world slave class who fuck up your order and have it come out cold 80% of the time. Would you spend $20 on a croissant with a 60% of it being fucked up? Most people can afford $20 but you'd be fucking retarded to do so in that scenario.
>>22009722 >entire next generations skip getting addicted They are fucked. Completely cannibalized their business for shortsided gains. Coke is the same.
i eat fast food so infrequently that price increases don't even register in my mind. i can't imagine remembering what a mcdouble cost ten years ago, truly a grim thought.
>>22009342 fast foods were kept artificially low through beef and potato subsidies, the cost of beef and potato production has overrun those subsidies. If you fucking poors want cheap burgers again then tell your fucking senator and representives to Vote YES on increased corporate subsidies. Fucking stupid sheep pig people
>>22011977 My mom died and was cremated in 2017, and I have her ashes in the bottom drawer of my tool cart in the garage, next to my string trimmer line and steel wool. How's the view from there, stud?
>>22009342 >go to fauxnews link to read comments >immediately the top two are about minimum wage increases and how these jobs are suppose to be "starter" jobs And marriage use to be between a man and woman, and we didn't have freaks entering women's restrooms and compete in their sports. The job market is awful and some people can only get literal McJobs. So it's either wage increase or better welfare programs. These comments are probably from fucking boomers that still have a cushy 100k or more job and own a house complaining they have to spend an extra buck on a fucking McSlop burger.
It used to be like $3 but you could get a second one for a buck. So you'd get two for much less than you get two now. They also did the thing where everything not on the value menu skyrocketed in price
>big arch burger >$11 >just for the fucking burger For a few bucks extra, I go to the local burger place a block away and get a burger 10x better that comes with a side of fries.
>>22009346 I bought a 300 dollar vacuum today and two weeks ago i bought a traeger pro 22 on facebook marketplace for 260 bucks and then blew another 200 or so cleaning it up, removing all the rust and repainting the interior and replacing the heat baffle and drip tray. Prolly should have just bought one new but i had fun working on it so idc. Inaugural brisket is going as i type
>>22011026 I think of the $7 dorito bags and the panic over loss of sales that followed. They tried to exploit the goyim but we're starting to wake up.
>>22012274 Sitting there after one cheeseburger still hungry as a kid but my mom couldn't afford another one so my momom would give me a dollar to go get one but I had to go to the register and order it myself. RIP
>>22012274 Also when they first put the N64's in that little plastic 4 way cuckstation They had Mario party on them but I'd get so pissed off because they reset after 5-10 minutes so I could never finish a game. I guess to give other kids a turn or something.
>>22012274 Also also not a good memory, just one I forgot about until now >climb to top compartment of playplace >little girl in there doing... Something she shouldn't be doing there >don't give 2 shits, crawl past towards the slide, but can't help but notice how it smelled worse up there than the rest of the playplace
>>22012422 >he has a local burger place Phase one of the McDomination strategy was to extinct all local burger places so most people no longer have this option
>>22009346 >Americans on here are always bragging about how rich they are >on here Only a fool would take something posted here as fact. If you want a more realistic picture look at the /druk/ threads on /tv/
>>22009342 social media users are either going regardless and talking shit for internet points or never would have eaten there to begin with the average person doesnt care enough to change their habits, weve seen maccas jack up prices for years and its only the online crowd chirping endlessly with no real hit to sales as usual, redditards and twitards think they are important, that they define society
>>22009342 Up until last week they had a deal on the app where you buy a double cheese for full price you would get another for a dollar basically making them 2 for 4 dollars. It was the best deal ever and they took it away and now you can't get a double cheese at all just a mcdouble for almost 3.
>>22013423 sorry if you feel weirded out normal faggot why don't you go talk like a fucking face book commercial so you can find some people more your speed
>>22012471 Yeah. I was actually looking forward to a goyslop injection last week and was not pleased to see the menu changes. The Buy-1-Get-1-for-$1 menu was my last excuse to go to McDonalds. I placed an order anyway but the cashier was laughing at my confused unc ass. They also retired the Big Arch at the same time, btw, so McDonalds currently has zero memes. (The gay "Stranger Things" Happy Meal For Reddit Groomers doesn't count.)
It might actually be ogre. Whatever happened to the American Dream of cheap and plentiful burgers. My nonna, she come to visit from the old country, hearing legendary tales of our powerful prosperous hamburger country. But I take her to clown store, and she see menu prices, and she look in her coin purse and weep, nonna cannot afford even one American donald burger, she go home to old country and tell all the other foreigners to invest in China instead.
>>22012274 >What is ur best mcdonalds memory? Many late-nite runs to the 24-hour drive-thru with the classic Dollar Menu (including $1 any-size coffee). None of which exist anymore, so tally that in your Claude analysis you social media marketing cunt.
If you actually fill your water cup with water and go back to the counter to ask for the sauce containers they'll sometimes slip you a couple extra. >>22013451 Sides in orbit.
>>22009342 >money supply increases >value of money goes down >price of goods goes up >normgroids befuddled The biggest argument against inflationary economics is 90% of the general popualtion seems to not understand how it works. Yes, the value of money is going down. It's going to keep going down forever unless the US massively overhauls boths its fiscal and monetary policies. Yes, that means the price of goods is going to rise forever as well. Sorry. This is what happens when you abandon backed currencies. Oh well, too late to go back now.
>>22009342 The fat retards who are complaining that ir's "no longer cheap" are the same motherfuckers who sit in the drive thru and order and eat 55 of the little bastards in one go. If you made the burgers $1 each, they would order 100 of them every order.
