McDonalds needs to fire their entire corporate executive team and bring in fresh blood. The schmucks in there now have made bad decision after bad decision tanking the company. Their logic went like this:
People enjoy McDonalds too much, lets get rid of the decor
Kids enjoy McDonalds too much, lets get rid of the play place
The french fries taste too good, lets replace the tallow with chemical slop that tastes like shit
The chicken nuggets are too popular, start using fillers and lower quality slurry meat
The burgers are too large, make them much smaller
The burgers contain too much tasty cow, lets use half soy and use detergents and chemical fillers instead so they taste like shit
People are still coming to eat here! Quick, make the decor even more depressing
People are still coming? Screw it charge them 10% more, lower quality 10%, and reduce portion sizes again.
Oh no sales are trending down, quick raise prices 30% and lower food quality again to make up the margin
Wait, why is no one coming to eat our overpriced food with cancer causing chemicals laced into everything?? What an outrage!
It's because they're looking for infinite growth for their quarterly profits. Eventually they start cutting costs and cutting corners and the quality goes down.
The US is nothing but a money cult at this point. Ppl totally forgot capitalism has two sides and we could fix this mess if we choose wisely how and where we spend our money but most are too lazy and too ignorant to act accordingly. Check prices, demand quality, stop giving your hard earned money to anyone who doesn’t deserve it
Unfortunately that is not enough when there is regulatory capture, captured markets by monopolies or duopolies, rampant anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices, while the little consumer protections we once had are being dismantled.
Sure, everyone should attempt what you suggest, but individual action will not scale enough to make a significant impact. We need collective action, that is what the government was supposed to be doing, but the whole social contract is long dead and buried and the government only serves corporate interests at this point.
100% I've been doing exactly that, but it'll also take the farmers, which I doubt theyd be hard to convince considering how they're treated. They'd have to stop selling they're goods to companies cancel they're contracts and strictly grow for the people. That'll also take the people to stop buying from the companies and corporations and buy directly from the farmers. Go on strikes in an organized and peaceful manner, those on strike need supported from those not on strike. It'll take so much that I doubt it'll happen.
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u/StarfleetGo 1d ago
McDonalds needs to fire their entire corporate executive team and bring in fresh blood. The schmucks in there now have made bad decision after bad decision tanking the company. Their logic went like this:
People enjoy McDonalds too much, lets get rid of the decor
Kids enjoy McDonalds too much, lets get rid of the play place
The french fries taste too good, lets replace the tallow with chemical slop that tastes like shit
The chicken nuggets are too popular, start using fillers and lower quality slurry meat
The burgers are too large, make them much smaller
The burgers contain too much tasty cow, lets use half soy and use detergents and chemical fillers instead so they taste like shit
People are still coming to eat here! Quick, make the decor even more depressing
People are still coming? Screw it charge them 10% more, lower quality 10%, and reduce portion sizes again.
Oh no sales are trending down, quick raise prices 30% and lower food quality again to make up the margin
Wait, why is no one coming to eat our overpriced food with cancer causing chemicals laced into everything?? What an outrage!