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Whatever led to the beef shortage is going to be affecting mcds food costs.
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McD's dumping self serve drinks "for a more consistent experience".

Suuuuuuure. You mean, to control costs and make it so you can charge for refills.
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I like refills. But I'm rarely in a fast food restaurant.
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Leisher wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 5:05 pm McD's dumping self serve drinks "for a more consistent experience".

Suuuuuuure. You mean, to control costs and make it so you can charge for refills.
"Control costs" but now you need a person behind the counter for refills, when your entire strategy of the last 5 years has been to eliminate as many humans as possible from the process.

Some idiot child accountant made this decision.
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Average car age is now almost 13, as people can't afford new cars in this awesome economy.

https://www.abc12.com/news/business/ave ... a8b7c.html
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Or, they're so reliable no need to upgrade.
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TheCatt wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 5:30 pm Or, they're so reliable no need to upgrade.
I laughed.
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CNN opinion piece about how consumer spending is "the" metric for how the economy is doing.

The claim is that it saved us from recession post-Covid, but now is waning.

As we've discussed, the economy is shit unless you're in the top 10%.

Maybe "shit" is strong? Let's just say that a decent life is becoming unaffordable to most people. Prices continue to rise for less product and worse service. These companies are just constantly raising prices while giving less trying to squeeze every penny of profit. They just can't stop as if they constantly had to keep producing more and more profit to appease some unrelenting master that can never be satisfied. But that's insane because it would be unsustainable. :D
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