As an American, if i could buy not American right now, I would. Fuck this government.
You should check out !goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca to buy from companies that do not make political contributions.
OMG, this is fantastic! Thank you
As another American rock the fuck on Canadians. I’ve been trying to buy more to help even out that trade balance but my state already does 3:1 imports but gotta pump those numbers up.
Also you got any Canadian crack maple syrup recommendations perchance. Cause I’m getting low and need my pancake fix, maple butter too cause if I’m going for a heart attack I go for gold.
Our syrup ain’t just crack! It’s fentanyl!
Im not hearing names, hook me up fam I neeeeeeed my maple syrup fix. The Maine syrup is good but I feel like you Canadians hoard the good shit.
Thank you for this
Change your tax withholding this year. Just put the extra money in a Canadian bond and wait for them to raise a stink
Whatever the version of an RRSP is in the states, usually you can change your investment strategy in it even if it doesn’t hold individual securities. Most would have an international investments strategy that keeps your money out of the USA.
Sometimes I can. When I have the option to get a European product from one of our local grocery stores — and there are some! I much prefer the imports. I feel like they’re safer these days.
If you hate this government, you should check out every single government before this.
McDonald’s forgot their place as a cheap fast food burger. It’s almost as expensive as places like Five Guys now, and nowhere near the same level of either flavor or sheer quantity.
It used to be that their app promos made up the difference but now it’s the same like 4 so coupons for specific items and a generic 15% off that really only covers taxes, not the 50%+ increase in prices in the last 2 years. It’s just not worth it anymore.
Even ignoring the international portion, I wouldn’t be surprised if Americans started to notice as well.
“If you’re not making a 33% profit, what are you doing it for?” - a quote from the Netherland’s McDonald’s chain owner. He also owns a bright red farari when visiting the drive through. He is a massive leech. Glad to not be working there anymore. The food quality is crap and overpriced.
You’re way better off eating Taco Mundo. Much better ingredients for the same prices. Even a frozen pizza from ristorante is way better than what Mac has to offer. Or Burger Me who actually rewards loyal customers with free burger coupons rather than McD’s sales app. I genuinely do not understand why people still go there. You can make your own burger with better quality and price at home…
Yeah, for reference, here are all of the deals currently available for me in the McD’s app…
- $2 Breakfast sandwich (and they no longer have 24 hours breakfast).
- Free medium fries with a $3 purchase.
- Buy One Happy Meal get one for $2
- 20% off a $15+ purchase
And that’s it. Meanwhile…
A Quarter Pounder with Cheese or Big Mac is $7.29, for the sandwich alone. The meals are $13.39 and $13.19 respectively. Why is there a difference? The sandwiches cost the same independently and the fries and drink are the same for the meal.
Or let’s get into the grift now… they’re ripping you off with some of the meals. A regular basic Cheeseburger is $2.69, and the meal is $10.39. so they’re saying the “discounted” meal bundle price to add a regular drink and fries is $7.70. So they’re saying the fries and a soda are worth nearly 3x as much as the cheeseburger, which is already ridiculous. But let’s ignore that and look at the cost closer… a regular medium fries is $4.99 and a regular medium soda is $1.39 which comes to $6.38… so they’re actually ripping you off for an additional $1.32 if you get the meal versus the items separately. So you’re paying an additional 10% by getting the meal… Isn’t that what the discount should be?
The price of a mcflurry is €4,80. You can buy a magnum scoop ice cream (€5) with twice the volume and greater quality. Also, we have a shitty discount play. So rn, you can buy 2 for the price of 1. So that’s way better than a half-melted mcflurry with barely any chocolate chunks in it.
Magnum pint ice cream is the best I’ve tasted short of some artisanal products. Better than Ben and Jerry or any other mass market.
Just looked it up and it belongs to Unilever, UK based multinational, so quite okay.
Unilever owns Ben and Jerry’s too
Good to know! My second favorite, but quite expensive (7 Euro a pint).
Nothing says “I’m a greedy whiny bitch” like complaining about a 3.6% dip in profits.
I expect it’s actually a political piece attempting to further the rhetoric that America is up in flames. And likely so they should.
But also, McDonald’s prices are outrageous now. I can feed my family at a sit in restaurant for a similar price.
Fast food and major chains have gotten absurd. I used a gift card at Red Robin. It was $19 before tip for a dry burger and bland fries. Two bucks more could’ve gotten me a gourmet meal at a five-star place just down the street. The value just isn’t there anymore. Eating local almost always tastes better, feels better, and costs the same or less. Why settle for mediocrity when better is right around the corner?
Two bucks more could’ve gotten me a gourmet meal at a five-star place just down the street.
What kind of stars are you talking about?
I can go to Chilis and get a REAL cheeseburger, fries, and a drink, for $10.99. If I’m in their free club, I get a free chips & salsa on every visit, too. If I leave a $2 tip (18%), it’s only $12.99, which is about same as a standard burger/fries/drink combo at McDonald’s.
Also, McDonald’s burgers are among the worst in the business, with nearly every other burger place beating them easily. We now have Culvers entering our market, and their burgers and fries blow away everyone else. They have really wide menu, and are actually cheaper than everyone else.
McD is also losing out go the quickly rising chicken tender trend, where their nuggests also compare poorly.
Their best thing is breakfast, where they are still the leader, but they are getting expensive there, too.
They’ve opend up a couple of new outlets near me, and they are obviously getting ready to go robotic. The dining areas are empty, with no drink stations, condiments, or even dispensers for straws or napkins. There is a wall that blocks the view of the kitchen area, so you can’t see who, or how many people are back there. It could be completely automated right now, and you’d never know it.
Yep and get waaaayyyyy better quality food
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I expect it’s actually a political piece
Yeah 100% propaganda. Just read the headline. They want anti-genocide protestors in concentration camps.
And all these shit companies directly supported Trump because they loved his “lower taxes hur dur” etc approach… now suffer!
I know it’s cool to just hate on capitalists for everything on Lemmy but like yeah it’s completely normal to complain about a decrease in profits. That’s like if you complained about a 3.6% decrease in take home pay, which ai suspect anyone would.
Don’t compare the income of the rich and the poor. We use our take home pay to buy groceries. They use their take home profits to buy our country out from under us, to buy our land and our companies, to buy our politicians, to buy our time. We are not the same.
yes, 3.6% less profits for most of us means “should I pay the electricity bill and starve for a couple of days?”. For Ronald McDonald it probably means “here’s another round of layoffs to streamline operational efficiency or whatever”
3.6% of 40k is 1,440. Thats like one months rent. 3.6% of 25 billion is 900 million thats like what… one super yachts?
Their decrease in profits is pushback for bad behavior though. So it would be like getting a 3.6% decrease in take home pay because you got demoted for misconduct.
Or alternately, that extra money was from a non-guaranteed bonus and you got a smaller bonus this year.
I wish there was more domestic anti-McDonald’s sentiment.
That shit is nasty.
There was a time when McDonald’s had a reasonable combination of cheap, fast, predictable, and safe. You weren’t going to spend $4.50 on a meal that was ready in seconds and it wasn’t going to make you sick.
Basically none of that is the case anymore. You’re going to wait like you’re at a steakhouse, you’re going to pay like you’re at a steakhouse, and you’re going to get freshly analed gristle on a bun.
Just because it was cheap and fast doesn’t make it less shit.
McDonald’s even at its peak was a heavy dose of salt, fat and carbohydrates, mostly empty calories, but again: cheap, fast, safe. My understanding is there are athletes that would carb load on McDonald’s french fries because they were readily available basically everywhere and were very unlikely to make you sick.
Quality has slipped, prices have drastically increased, service is an order of magnitude slower…you have to be an idiot to eat at McDonald’s now, the value proposition has fallen below remaining hungry.
McDonald’s is better abroad (in my experience in the EU) so they actually have higher standards than us to begin with. I think that is largely true across the board but especially in this case.
They have better standards than the US because US standards would probably violate EU minimum standards.
Doesn’t mean that they are good or even acceptable relative to the alternatives. Most kebab places in my city have better burgers for lower prices and the dedicated burger shops (not the tourist traps) have slightly higher prices but much better quality and quantity.
Depends heavily on the country. MacDonald’s in France is quite good IMO, in Germany, it’s absolutely nasty.
Oh no, did the shitty mega corporation suffer consequences for its role in contributing to destabilizing a government to save 2% on its taxes? Pobrecito!
Is that government the US or another one? Did they make substantial contributions to Trump or Vance?
US, yeah, and I’m certain they contributed in some way. Most mega corps contribute to republicans in some way or another, either directly to campaigns or they contribute to policy groups or advocacy/lobbying groups that contribute to republicans or help create policy for them. Basically, everything else can burn as long as we save 1% on our taxes-- wait, why did the lights go out?
Not only did they contribute, they had Trump do an ad for them while he was on the campaign trail.
The burger giant reported U.S. same-store sales fell 3.6%, the largest three-month drop since Q2 2020, when they plunged 8.7%.
Pump that shit up, y’all! Don’t forget McDonald’s hosted the domestic enemy to the United States Constitution, Donald Trump, for two separate PR stunts. They are complicit in his treason. They don’t deserve another cent of your money - there are tons of other options to get your greasy salt fix.
When they let him “work” there and didn’t chastise the franchisee for politicizing their brand, I was 100% done. They were my favorite go-to fast food for over 30 years. I’ll never eat there again.
After McDonald’s dumbass trump stunt during the election, the only reason that I’ll ever go there again is to take a dump in their bathroom on a road trip.
I missed it, what’d they do during the election?
There was talk about how Camilla was a McDonalds worker when she was young, compared to nepo asshole Drumph who never worked a day in his life. So he organized a photo shoot at a local McD’s with him wearing an apron and looking confused. The closed the McD’s for the occasion and only invited magats to use the drive through.
Trump was doing a McDonalds drive thru gig or something, idk was weird and dumb
McDonald’s allowed trump to close a store down for a stupid photo op where trump pretended to work.
It was very “trump, he just like us!”
Macdonalds is utter shite. There’s just no other way to say this.
“anti American”. Nah, it’s overpriced shit, that’s all. Love from Australia.
Yeah, I can get an actual pub burger for 3-5 more than a quarter pounder… and I don’t hate myself after it? Why should I go to McDonald’s?
I’ve been asking myself the same question lately. If Maccas is nearly the same price as an actually good burger, why not just get the good burger?
Exactly this. It was “fast food” where you didn’t expect greatness because it was cheap. Now it’s not at all cheap and crap anyway.
Yeah it was always cheap, fast, good… pick 2 (sometimes) now it’s fast or good, pick 1 (maybe).
Near me it’s none of the above, teenagers arent winning any races and I dont expect them to. $15 minimum for a meal, and $30 for my partner and I, so fuck it, might as well go to the local burger joint where it’s $36, feeds us both ,and I get a blue cheese and bacon burger for my trouble.
That’s the way nowadays… good gravy I remember scoffing at a $10 burger… now finding one that cheap is like a unicorn!
Without the sauce the patty just tastes like cardboard. ( Urm, not that I eat cardboard often. )
I have never understood people’s weird obsession with going to Macca’s at the end of a night out, instead of the obviously better choice of literally any local kebab shop run by whoever
Oh God in my younger years ( a long long time ago ) after a nightclub in North West England I would hit the kebab shop and my mates would go for KFC. To this day I don’t bother with that greasy stuff unless it’s bought for me say at work or similar.
It’s funny how McDonald’s was the crown jewel of Western capitalism/imperialism. I remember media saying that having McDonald’s in your country means you are modernized and pro “democracy” and that your country is an ally of the west.
Now McDonald’s is a sign of corporate greed and western dominance over your country. I guess that’s what you get for letting a real estate company make and sell burgers.
Hopefully, this death dealing business model goes the way of the dodo.
Not just Western dominance. American dominance. We need to rid ourselves of these corporations, even in Western Europe.
Good
If you can’t sell sugarburgers in America, what can you sell?
Maybe McDonald’s can introduce a payment plan system. It’s already how Americans afford groceries.
As a Canadian in Japan, McDonald’s is one brand I had a difficult time saying goodbye to after your Shit president threatened our sovereignty, because I genuinely used to have a good experience everytime I went. Clean store, polite staff, decently cheap food, and cool collabs with Japanese IP like Pokemon and Mario.
I’m sad my kids don’t get to enjoy a treat there every now and then, but fuck the USA right now and anybody who supports the shitty administration.
As an American, yeah I agree with you, fuck the USA
Yeah if you’re cool with torturing and murdering animals, supporting genocide, destroying the planet… McD’s is pretty sweet! Especially for the kids!
Do you ever worry that by calling everything genocide you’re going to undermine the seriousness of the term?
Our very existence tortures the planet. Every bit of convenience and joy we feel is based on someone else’s hardship and sadness to some degree. So do you just live every day of your life feeling guilty?
What device did you use to make your stupid comment? I hope it was posted using a device powered by renewables; used no rare earths; built by fairly paid, of-age, and vegan workers. Oh no? If you’re cool with that, your comment is pretty sweet!
Why would you subject yourself to living in Japan as a Canadian with kids though?
Because I have Japanese heritage and it’s awesome here. Wtf kind of question is that?
Every Japanese I have met in Canada (mostly in Toronto and Montreal), that had young children, say that it’s very unwelcoming in Japan. And if you or your children are mixed, you face racism too. Again anecdotal, the number of these people I have talked to was only three, but they all had the same opinion. This included a couple that went back to try again a second time but then ended up in Montreal again.
Wow three whole anecdotes? I must be wrong and having a shitty time here too without realising, then.
TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.
The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increase—going from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.
These increases exceed the general average for inflation calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that prices went up by about 21.5 percent between the end of 2019 and March 2024.
For at least since the pandemic I can get a better burger and fries from an actual restaurant, with probably three or four different places to choose from, for less. McDonald’s is good in a particular way, but the two main things they had going for them were convenience and cost. With cost blown away the convenience isn’t really enough to carry the day a lot of the time, even when I’m in a rush.
And they did it them fucking selves.
Yeah, not that I used to eat fast food a lot but with prices as high as they’ve gotten I just can’t justify it. It’s garbage food that’s more expensive than sit-down options. Everyone has a phone, so with 10 minutes of pre planning you can order from anywhere and not have to sit there and wait which makes McDonald’s lose ground in convenience too.
Pricing is about the only place McDonald’s could win, but they’re too greedy and we all know it.
I don’t know why I bother with ordering ahead of time because every time I do they haven’t done shit when I get there to pick it up.
Yup, they totally kept jacking prices up to get as much as they can from the consumer.
McDonald’s execs are not featured in this video but you can bet they were not sitting idly by when others were getting “as much as the consumer can absorb” read: keep increasing prices until sales increases stall.
Nope, just no, screw them.
I can’t believe a Big n’ Tasty used to be a buck with prices the way they are.
Good. Everything American outside of America should fail and collapse.
I would support a motion to throw a party in every fucking McDonald’s that closes down.
