Re: low-income consumers are starting to crack

 > JAB wrote:
 > McDonald's and other big brands warn that low-income consumers are
 > starting to crack
 >
 > Some of America's best-known corporations are saying their
consumers
 > are being pinched by inflation as prices continue rising.
 > ....
 > ....
 > "It is clear that broad-based consumer pressures persist
around the
 > world," McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said on the fast-food
chain's
 > earnings call early Tuesday. "Consumers continue to be even
more
 > discriminating with every dollar that they spend as they faced
 > elevated prices in their day-to-day spending."
 >
 >
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/companies-from-mcdonalds-to-3m-warn-inflation-is-squeezing-consumers.html

You
have to be desperate to eat fast-food nowadays. even Subway ( which
has been found with problems with ingredients )
is not good anymore. Most food made at these places are food
substitutes.

I will admit one thing. I miss having baconators, strawberry lemonade,
and big curly fries.   I miss having big Wendies sized Sandwiches. I
miss food that is cheap I miss greasy White-Castle burgers. At the
same time every cent even from when we were kids could have been put
away inside a bank account on every meal we brought.

I miss the innocence of a hot-dog, and milk-shake, to sodie-pop, and

The reason why people are upset over the food because they know it is
not worth that much. Right now a dollar literally equals $5 dollars.
That is how bad the inflation is. When your a small business paying
$15 an hour for minimum-wage, or even more. You have to install robots
over highering employees to avoid health-insurance costs, among other
costs. That is insanity.

You want to eat fast-food you might as well buy the whole meat ( like
in the past ) and slice, dice, separate and pre-make
your food. It is not hard to setup to make the same food and drinks in
these joints. Maybe your just too lazy or too tired to make that
investment.

What your paying for at Wendy's is literally for the facility,
portability, and actual service so you can go home to your box, or
hole in the ground.I mean thinking about it, look at McDonalds
nowadays. Computerized to the brim. They even bring the meals to your
table like a boss. Makes you feel better then gold nowadays. Rather
then standing in line for $@#$#$
 

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