• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    Never mind that they’ve been seeing a sales decline for longer than just the past 100 days, and their sales declines aren’t limited to just the US.

    Here in Australia their burgers have gotten so expensive, and so small - you’d be forgiven for confusing it with one of those gummy burger packets!

    At least Hungry Jacks (our version of Burger King) has largely still maintained the same size; the Whopper offers infinitely more value and the Angry variant (spicy fried onions and jalapeños) kicks ass!

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    Lol sure, I don’t mind companies blaming trump. But what about the decreasing sales before 2025?

    Does the effects of tariffs travel backwards through time? 🤔

    (Mcdonalds is so bad, you might as well just get food from your local Chinese restaurant)

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    …how about blaming trashy fast food priced higher than table service at a proper sit-down restaurant?..

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      You’re not wrong, but let’s just see where this goes first. I’m not even sure the cheetoh poll higher amongst his fans than McDonald’s.

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    They turned in Luigi, likely by having facial recognition in all stores. This is not justifying what Luigi is charged with, but fuck McDonald’s for being a part of that lie. Traitorous lying scum.

    They have cameras pointing up at you from the register area when you place an order, apparently “just for QR codes.” And all their fucking digital menus have cameras in them. Why exactly is that needed? Fraud prevention for the illicit big Mac?

    McDonald’s doesn’t value privacy and I don’t believe for a second a random employee there identified Luigi.

    Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me) and also just not caring about privacy at all, why the fuck would I go there? Nope.

    I don’t trust them at all. In the US, corporations are legally allowed to lie to you if the government approves so if they do have some program in cahoots with police for facial recognition, we would never know.

    I’m not saying it’s bad to catch bad guys who are religious radicals, but the government is not exactly trustworthy.

    And, on top of this, they fucked everyone over on price, then lowered it slightly when they realized they stepped in dog shit, showing how price increases were partly price gouging.

    Fuck McDonalds.

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      Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me)

      Why do they need an AI to do that? People have been hollering into their ordering system for decades.

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    how about: the price of everything has been drastically going up while income has not, so instead of spending $20 for a meal at McDon’s, they’re buying a dozen eggs?

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      3 hours ago

      I actually forgot about the endorsement until i read the article. Fuck mcd

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      Right? It’s absolutely part of why I don’t spend money there. The other part being shit food that’s too expensive, but letting this assclown promote your brand turned about half the country off of your products hard.

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    As I understand it, mcd had already done so many other cost cutting tactics to increase profits for their masters, the SHAREHOLDERS. The corporate business model demands increases EVERY quarter. This kind of continuous infinite profit growth just doesn’t make sense in real life. They may have exhausted all other options to increase profit for their shareholders beside price increases. They have no one to blame but themselves. They could stand up to their shareholders and not raise prices, but seems like they’re spineless, and now they are pushing up against the edge of what their customers are willing to pay. I don’t know how long they can keep this up.

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    Nothing to do with feeding genocidal maniacs and boasting about it? Pretty sure that helped the boycott

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    Their garbage food and sky high prices, and severe lack of quality operations probably did more damage.

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    This is only half bullshit. Quality is through the bottom level of hell on every metric at McDonalds. The ONLY reason I go is because they have a kids playplace. The app is essentially required, but sucks ass for usability. They took the soda machines out of most of them so free refills are basically gone, the prices are rediculous and the food sucks. Also, people are tightening belts because Trump (WHO MCDONALDS SUPPORTED) is an idiot.

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      Stop going there.

      Do not teach your kids to compromise on their values.

      Plus those indoor play places are so hard to clean properly and unhygienic, you may inadvertently expose your kids to the measles virus or something.

      Take them to the YMCA or something.

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      Heh. McDonald’s here in Canada (at least the ones near me) is generally pretty good as far as fast food goes, my only gripe was the shitty app. Of course, we’ve already stopped eating there anyways; dumbest trade war in history

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      All of that gripe and you still go there instead of a public park?

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        At least here in Los Angeles, many of the parks are unsafe for children. I found a knife in the playground last year.

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          Go help clean them up, then.

          Done that plenty, it makes a huge difference and as people notice they come and help out too.

          Ya know how many toilets I’ve helped dragged out of local streams and creeks? Way too fucking many.

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            If your kids are playground aged, you probably don’t have a ton of free time/babysitter money to be doing that. You could bring the kids, but I’d rather not have my small children handling used needles and condoms (just a few of the delights I’ve found on my local playground)…

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            Toilets? Like ceramic? The home appliance that you shit into everyday? People throw those into streams and rivers??

            …(Shatner.gif)But why?

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              Nobody is. Kinda heartbreaking.

              What we usually do is find an empty milk jug or soda bottle to collect them in, and we have a method where rake and spread out garbage out before we pick it up in order to spot any sharps and avoid injuries.

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          After I sent that I was worried that would be the answer. I am so sorry your kids can’t just go to a park.

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    McDonald’s and other fast food burger chains mostly exist to me for when I’m craving fries and download the app and get some deal where it’s like buy the smallest drink and get free large fries. They get like $2 about every 6 months from me

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        Such a stupid take. It’s fine if you don’t like it but it’s obviously a burger.

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          I’ll invite you over and make you a burger, then I’ll put a big mac next to it and you can be the judge haha.

          If dried road kill for burger meat between two barely reheated frozen buns is a burger then you’re right.

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            You’ll invite him over for a better burger, no doubt. Because yeah, Big Macs suck.

            But by the very definition of the word, a Big Mac IS a burger whether you want it to be or not. Actual facts don’t generally give a shit about your opinion on the matter. A burger patty between two sides of a bun is a burger. Doesn’t matter if the meat is half cardboard and the buns are reheated frozen pieces of shit, it’s still very much the technical definition of a burger.

            So please give the pretentious twat persona a rest, thanks.