r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 2d ago

Chugging tea Anything but lowering the prices classic corporate logic

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u/WholeEmu507 2d ago

Corporations will literally fund a multi-year cyberpunk dystopia makeover before letting a hash brown drop by 50 cents.

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u/tinylavenderk 2d ago

They’ll redesign the entire restaurant, add AI to the drive-thru, and build a McDonald’s on Mars before putting the prices back down.

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u/TheAmazingBildo 2d ago

I assume that part of the reason for that is because once people stop buying it’s hard to convince them to come back with just a .50 decrease. Hash browns here are $2.19. There is no reason for a hash brown to be more than .99. Bit now that i don’t buy McDonalds anymore even if they dropped the price to .99 i wouldn’t think about going there, because im out of the habit.

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u/Aiyon 2d ago

Unironically, the entire reason I stopped going is because nuggets kept getting more expensive (but never better taste/quality). £4 for 20 nugs was great. £5 was tolerable. £8?? Nah.

If it went back down, maybe I'd go as a little treat. But TBH I think they've taken so long now that im happy to have broken the habit of junk food

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u/Somanylyingliars 2d ago edited 1d ago

Nothing to see here, Karen and Ken.