Based on the comments here, McDonalds probably made the graphic.
Everyone is more focused on how it should have been done rather then fuming at McDonalds for price gouging.
Mildly McInfuriating
Submitted 3 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I wonder how this affects homelessness. What surprised me in my country was how much the homeless dependent on those cheap eats for food. How a 2 dollar burger here meant a meal for them, and how a price increase meant extra begging to get fed.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Donate and volunteer at your local shelter
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To compare, inflation from 2014 to 2025 has been about 33%
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
2024 their sales went down for the first time, so they cut the prices a bit on some meals, but you get a small drink and a small frie like we’re fucking stupid. If you up it back to medium fries and drink it’s the same shitty overpriced deal.
It got me over the idea of stopping for fast food. Fuckem
dditty@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Back ~2010/11 I used to go to McD’s once a week with friends after practice. I’d order a McChicken, a mcdouble, and a medium fry and pay with just random loose change from my car. Thanks for confirming this for me with this infographic, these are the prices I remember paying.
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t eat there so the jokes on them!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Don’t eat fast food. It is really bad for you and will eventually kill you.
sxan@midwest.social 3 months ago
I mean, do whatever you want to your own body, but for gods sake don’t feed that utter shit to your kids!
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Running out of thin kids to show in the commercials so they zoom away from the fat belly.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
What’s worse is what it does to your arteries. They become clogged and brittle.
DaseinPickle@leminal.space 3 months ago
Good! People should not eat that crap. It’s hardly food.
Mwa@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Not Worth their food is not very good anyways its average.
FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I haven’t eaten “fast” “food” in basically forever. It’s been decades. Unless 2010-ish Subway counts, and that was only consumed b/c I was driving cross-country and one whole sub was a day’s eats that I could stash as-needed.
These prices blow my mind. I can’t believe that people are paying so much for so little, and for crappy fried heart-attack and diabetes fare too. I can eat for a day for the price of one of these “burgers” (or “meals” - just because there’s more than one item in the bag doesn’t make it a “meal” no matter how much the marketers use the term). For the price of a “quarter pounder” here, I can get at least three big cans of “chunky”-style soup, each of which is a meal in itself - all you need is a bowl and a microwave and a spoon and a few minutes to heat. For the price of that burger I can (and do) get 3-4 boxes of cereal at Walmart, each of which will, along with a little milk in a bowl, provide a week’s-worth of breakfasts.
Frozen veggies, basics from the Winco bulk aisles, a bit of dairy maybe, a little spice, and maybe a worn, curled recipe book you got from the used bookstore (or not, if you already have the intuition for cooking) and you can eat incredibly cheaply (and well, if you’re careful) in the US. No need to fill your body with expensive McShit just because the ads tell you to and justify your doing it. Everything changes if you’re already homeless of course, that’s gonna cost you, but just be aware that McEating is going to get you to that state of being all the sooner.
I think that people eating all this McShit and justifying it as some kind of necessity (“too busy shop and cook!”) are just addicted to sugar/fat/salt/industrial-chemicals and who demand “treats” of such things each and every goddamn day (vs maybe once every few weeks 40 yrs ago) because that’s what they “deserve”. I understand, a treat is all you can aspire to, you’re never going to buy a house or have a decent job, but blowing what little $ you have on ruining your health and mobility and sanity doesn’t seem to me like it’s going to help get more out of life. No more than a daily 12-pack of McBeer would, and for that you wouldn’t have to wait in line.
lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Think about people working there.
They want a living wage at least.tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.
I don’t have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker’s pockets.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Is that why you think prices went up?
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I’m surprised they are not all 200%, didn’t tge money supply double in that time period?
nwilz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is disinformation
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lazy comment
nwilz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The 4.49 bar is higher than 5.39. It’s literally disinformation
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Must eat at McDonald’s.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They did bring back the 5 dollar meal though, at least in my region. Which immediately makes them a viable option.
But the five dollar meal is weird in comparison to everything else they offer.
For example, a small fries by itself is $2.50 half the cost of the whole 5 dollar meal.
To me this indicates that they’re just arbitrarily increasing prices for the sake of them being more expensive.
The problem of course with raising prices at McDonald’s is that people eat there because they’re supposed to be cheap and fast. Not because of their “gourmet” food.
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
mildy inflating
Superfool@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We used to call this fast food. I would say it is barely 1 of the 2 words in that description.
It is of low nutritional quality, bad for the environment, and takes forever if you dont order the popular stuff. It is often lukewarm at best and they often fuck up the order.
I just see this stuff as a waste of time and health.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I was becoming more and more infuriated as I read through this, then I realized where this was posted. Carry on.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Where are these prices from? A quarter pounder meal is under $10 where I am.
randon31415@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If this was just McDonalds, shouldn’t there be a Burger King that didn’t raise prices to try to gain back market share?
And if this was all fast food joints, is there a common reason besides greed that it happened? If it was just greed, you would think one of their competitors could WALMART (lower prices until competition dies) them.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because they aren’t competing in the way free market ideologists say they should. It generally takes a 200 level economics class less than a day to figure out a price cartel is far better for the companies involved. I’m sure the professionals have their back channels and third party price consultants already figured out.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Thats because they have formed an oligopoly.