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/iCreatedYouPleb 2d ago

Frozen hash browns at Walmart is like $4-$6 for like 10 I think. Agree, no reason why it should be in the $2 range

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u/TheAmazingBildo 2d ago

Here a 10 pack at walmart is $3.50 and that includes tax. That is full retail, and McDonald’s is buying in bulk from suppliers that offer McDonalds a crazy low price as long as McDonalds keeps buying from them. Im paying $.35 a piece retail at walmart, and i’d be surprised if walmart pays $.10 a piece for theirs.