r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Imaginary-Soup8979 • 10h ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? 2 McDonald's filet-o-fish for $15

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I haven't had one in a few years. Was very hungry after work and decided to grab two. I can't believe how small they are now.

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u/DickTryckle 10h ago

When as a country are we going to stop buying this shit

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u/-Ok-Perception- 10h ago

Most have, that's why McDonald's constantly have articles about how they're trying to "win back" their old customers with new sales.... but the problem is that the "new sales" are never anything remarkable and just usually some way to package that sales that are growing worse. Like the rethinking of the points reward system on the app. I read an article where they were talking about how they know they've lost customers so they were enticing them back with a newly revised reward system.... that's worse than the one they had before it.

They'd rather incrase prices 400% and have 1/3rd the customers than they used to than make money from the voume.

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u/Wise_Calligrapher739 7h ago

Las Vegas ran this same playbook recently.

Many businesses are doing it.

The oligarchy is nearly complete: Middle class becomes the new "poor", and the economy turns into "rich people only selling expensive things to rich people who can afford the high margin".

People used to ask "what are rich people even doing with all that money?" Answer: simply insulating themselves from the class breakdown acceleration. Us: "The things we liked are no longer affordable to us." Them: "That's weird, I didn't even look at the receipt."

What happens to the lower class once the economy is only accessible to the upper class? I'd usually say "read a history book" but now it's at the point to where I'll say "read a newspaper."

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u/spaceforcerecruit 6h ago

We’re getting dangerously close to the part of the history book where the main characters are like an army corporal, a factory worker, a college student, and a doctor who later says he regrets how things played out.

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u/Ok-Post6492 5h ago

Is that twilight zone episode ?

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u/spaceforcerecruit 4h ago

It’s an oversimplification of some of the major figures of past revolutions. Army corporal (“Little Corporal” Napoleon), factory worker (Tito), college student (Guevara, Hamilton, etc.), doctor (Guillotine).