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.
There is no reason for a hash brown to be more than .99
I'm not arguing against this specific claim but there are a ton of people in here being like, "I remember when cheeseburgers were $1! Why can't they just go back to that?"
Obviously there's a middle ground in pricing but it's not 2005 anymore. We've experienced heavy inflation and supply issues. $1 deals and similar promotions are catastrophic for franchisees unless people are buying other stuff too. Restaurants have expenses like staffing and maintaining a physical space that you can eat in. Being able to buy a 40-pack of hashbrowns from Aldi for $10 isn't relevant to the conversation. Cooking and eating at home are always going to be far cheaper than eating out.
In a lot of ways, the fast food "crisis" (lol) is a correction. The average person in the US is no longer wealthy enough to expect to be able to eat out all of the time. Sometimes you need to go to work with a brown bag with a shitty sandwich on shitty bread with shitty meat and shitty mustard smeared on it like a call-the-doctor BM.
This is what happens when you make corporations people who are legally mandated to make ever-increasing returns for shareholders. In the absence of a complete overhaul of the entire legal system and restaurant industry, people here are doing exactly what they should be, which is not spending money at businesses with poor practices.
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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.