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Yesterday, the HuffPo said that despite Big Macs being cheap, McDonald’s sales and profits decreased, with McDonald’s earnings falling by 30 percent. BBC reports said that although the company’s sales fell in Russia, Germany, and especially China after a scandal over meat supplies, the key reason for the poor numbers is low sales on the home front. Earlier, experts speculated that McDonald’s sales plummeted because lower-income Americans suffered from the weak economy; therefore, they weren’t able to afford eating out at McDonald’s. However, this could be a false conclusion, as Bureau of Labor Statistics data published by HuffPo showed that McDonald’s menu prices grew only by a mere 4.8 percent between 2009 and 2014, whereas prices at other fast-food eateries rose anywhere from 6.7 to 16.9 percent. Despite higher prices at other fast-food eateries, their sales actually increased. Therefore, the issue plaguing McDonald’s may be its falling reputation. According to the HuffPo, the commonly held perception is that McDonald’s food isn’t worth eating at any price. Now, CNBC News reported that McDonald’s is trying to re-brand itself as a seller of fresh and good quality food by introducing “transparency initiatives”, such as last week’s campaign asking customers to submit their opinions about the company’s food.
24 October 2014
Rossiya Segodnya
http://en.ria.ru/business/20141024/194540518/McDonalds-Meals-Cheap-But-Sales-Still-Falling.html
Editor:
We prefer to eat at Burger King… the food tastes better… full stop. Mickey Dee’s is all over the place, but we prefer to buy food on the road that we can TASTE. Besides, everyone knows how Mickey Dee’s abuses and underpays its help… it’s the Republican Party Paradise writ large. Now, that I have the Burger King app on my tablet, I’ll never have to stop at McClown’s again (Friendly’s is a good bet on the road, too)!
BMD
12 March 2015. BBC Scared Shitless of Russo-Greek Alliance
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The West shit all over Greece… they’re SURPRISED that Greece wants to turn to Russia? The hubris of the West (Anglo Americans in particular) is spectacularly mindboggling. They truly think that they can fuck people over indefinitely. They are in for an education, aren’t they?
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Read this. The strident and hubristical tone is just amazing. Yes… they truly do think this. It’s like Lyonyo and his daughter Sofiya here in the USA… he whores for the CFR and she whores for the American media (the apple sure didn’t fall far from the tree on this one)… I do daresay that both of them believe the shit that they peddle. After all, in their world everybody thinks the same… there’s no dissent. We’re dirt under their feet. The BBC has the same attitude… we ungrateful peasants have to understand that they’re enlightened and that they truly know best, that they’re doing everything for our betterment. Of course, they get a larger slice of the pie… THEY DESERVE IT. It reminds me of the old Chukcha joke:
Read the BBC rant in that spirit and you’ll find out much about the Western leadership class. Fairly nauseating, isn’t it?
BMD