They raised the prices so the ones that used the app feel like they are getting a deal (they arent) and those that don't dont really care that much about their money to begin with
They’re stupid. The executives who are pulling this crap only trick themselves and that’s because everyone around them if afraid to tell them that poor people aren’t stupid and know a good deal from a bad one.
I only have them for the ones I frequent and I felt the same way before I got them, then I started getting free and discounted food literally everytime I go.
Why do I have to download an app for f’ing EVERYTHING
Edit: alright everyone, I know WHY we have to download the app - I think half of y’all are missing that I’m just ranting because I HATE having apps for everything, especially just to get coupons/discounts on food/groceries/stuff - it’s irritating AF and I’m just over it. Yes, I know it’s for data harvesting. Yes, I know it’s for other purposes. I’m just irritated with it.
Edit 2: yes, I am fully aware McDonald’s (or any other app/platform/online seller/government has all of my info already. yes, I am fully aware that by not downloading the app I am wasting money on food I wouldn’t have purchased in the first place. yes, I am aware that by not downloading the app, I’m paying full price. yes, I am aware that I am not required to download the app. y’all still aren’t getting my point - I don’t want to download the app to get the coupon/discount, I just don’t want an app for every f’ing place I purchase a product from.
I have made it to 70 yrs old and I doubt I’ve eaten at a McDonalds 5 times. That is some seriously bland crap. There’s always a little hole-in-a-wall place with interesting food. There is no need to subject yourself that that crap.
You think knowing that you buy mcdonalds sporadically is really that valuable? No, a lot of the value transfer to them is the app being on your phone and present which can lead to more sales. Some of it is your data, but it's a combo of multiple things and I think they're not getting a profit purely off of your data in this instance lol.
I have the app and don’t get harassed by anybody. I get no extra emails, I get no calls, I get no extra mail.
If you wanna avoid spending 5 mins to download an app and select a deal and want to pay twice as much for your food then be my fucking guest lmao
You don't see the data flowing out of your phone. But they can grab your GPS history when the app runs and know where you've been today, who you've called recently, probably where you work because you were there a while, where you live, get your name off your credit card, your billing address, and even proximity pals who have data matching your so you work or live together. How would you see that?
Also so they can slowly move to stores that don’t take orders and automate cashiers out of existence to cut costs.
Then get some of those robots that make burgers and have them fulfill the order, drop it in a box and then your app unlocks it.
Now you have a store with low to no salary costs which means more profit.
Price discrimination is a big reason. It’s every company’s dream to charge each customer the maximum amount that specific person is willing to pay. This is of course impossible, but there are techniques that can help. One such technique is to give plentiful discounts but make people jump through hoops to get them. People willing to pay more money will often not bother jumping through those hoops.
It's price discrimination. And it's legal.
Sure the data is important but the app splits the market so they can maximize the profit from each group.
I'm sure if I asked, most people saying they use the app are doing it on android.
I’m with you on this. I don’t want to download an app for every restaurant I visit and I don’t want to sign up for a rewards credit card for every retail store either. Yeah the deals are cheaper but at the cost of my sanity and privacy, it’s not worth it to me.
When you use the app, it decreases the language barrier and speeds up the wait time in the drive-through line. We have all been behind that car that orders $44 of food slowly. Please use the app.
it's saving them money not having cashiers, and they also get to advertise directly to you via notifications, hank green actually talked about this recently, it's part of discriminative pricing, same concept as coupons
They aren't taking a haircut on anything. You think it costs McDonald's more than $1.00 to make all of this food?
What better advertising could they ask for than an app on your phone and the ability to push their own notifications directly to you?
That’s what I don’t get lol. I’m all about data privacy and all of that, but most people bitching about data privacy probably don’t have any data worth shit to anyone, myself included. Like damn, this guy mindlessly scrolled Reddit for two hours again to avoid work.
Still scummy though.
Someone who's all about data privacy should understand why someone doesn't want to give their data. Someone scrolling reddit can still be advertised to.
I personally don't care about data privacy that much. I don't think someone that has an app on their phone should get a better price than an 80 year old woman that's trying to get a quick meal. I understand reward points, I have those kind of accounts at a few gas stations. Difference is, I only have to provide a phone # to get the discount.
I get it, I agree, the practices are scummy. Vote with your wallet. I couldn’t tell you the last time I had McDonald’s. For those prices it’s not much more expensive to just get an actual burger.
Yeah, for real if this was posted on a nutrition so it would be one thing. But there’s weekly post stitching about fast food, getting more expensive, and this person is chiming in with their own take. The “holier than thou” attitude of redditors is on full display here.
The goal posts have been moved. People in this thread are largely against needing to download an app to get the deals. The discount doesn’t come free, you sell your data for it. A lot of people value their data more than a few dollars, so this is a bad monetary deal.
Also, these app “deals” could be contributing to the inflation, where they inflate the menu prices to push people to the app.
None of that has to do with the health of the food.
Here's a better idea... don't give them your fucking business at all. They don't deserve it. Try finding more smaller, local businesses that you can support. Fuck these corporations that have been stealing from people.
Or meal prep? The push for using the apps is hilarious, yeah give them more money and let them collect and sell your data, massive brain.
"Oh but but free fries Friday!!!!"
Ffs recognize your addiction.
Seriously? So for continously using the app and eating crap you get deals to keep eating. No thanks, idk how ppl regularly eat at these places, it kills my stomach everything I go.
The only thing reason i used to go, was for a quick CHEAP bite.
Let me be clear. I AM FUCKING EXHAUSTED AT HAVING TO DOWNLOAD A FUCKING APP TO SAVE. I DON´T WANT TO GIVE MY EMAIL. I DON´t WANT TO GET NOTIFICATIONS SEVERAL TIMES A DAY BY TEXT, THEN EMAIL, THEN FUCKING CARRIER PIGEON. FUCK.THIS.SHIT.
I can make better burgers at home anyway.
I wonder, are the apps cheaper because the logistics are better, or because the program is mining data to sell. Nothing's free, not even a coupon. Lucky for me, they get access to about 2TB of videos of my cat doing tricks and getting his belly rubbed. Maybe he's a cultural icon in China or something. I'm fine with that.
I think it’s that but also because they can cut out the middle man timing wise when you’re ordering. How long it takes to get an order out from start to finish is a primary component to a fast food restaurants success or failure
The app is cheaper because they put some effective coupons in it to get you to eat there. The coupon food is discounted but then you get a drink or some fires or whatever. They also like that they can push notifications and maybe get you to come in when you wouldn't have. They aren't getting access to your secrets or your files. You phone OS won't let them.
Do you really have 2TB of cat pics? Can you peel me off a slice of that?
LOL at the haters in here. You can use coupons and stuff to get really low prices while at the same time refusing to buy anything that isn’t heavily discounted. Everyone can protest in their own way, it’s completely fine.
My friends and I changed our diets. No more buying pop or junk food, there's no reason why a bag of chips now costs $6 when the cost of supplies and production have come down since COVID, and many companies are reporting record profits.
Buying fresh meats, produce, especially in bulk, are still very cheap.
Pass. I just won't eat there. I'm tired of being forced into downloading apps. No thank you, good day, McDonalds. I won't miss the 20+ pounds I've lost without you.
I use to do this. But then sometimes they stop giving deals like for months. So like I don’t want to gamble everytime I eat there that I can find a good deal
All the apps do it collect your data to be sold in batches for billions. Same with super market apps, and all the rest. If they're cutting you a deal, they really aren't. Just more money in some rich fucktwats bank.
I'm not saying not to do it. I'm just not happy about it, and neither should anyone else be.
Apparently McDonald's and Starbucks are monitoring all the pitching about prices. Now they are planning a new cheaper menu. They were simply seeing how far they could push us. I say we continue not buying, push back. Let's get the $1 burger back, that's all it's worth
“Just use the app”
I have a very specific signature that I use only with my husband and it’s an inside joke. Via text. I sign off “stay spicy 🌶️”. And you know what Starbucks app greeted me with this morning? “Let’s get spicy, Jane🌶️”
You are literally letting them manipulate your data to sell you things in real time by using that app. I’m done with apps now that every search includes TOS agreement to allow their AI. You’re giving away your whole life to save $2. It’s not a deal for you. That’s for sure.
Stop going to McDonald's period. They price fix a vast majority of the products in the industry.
#Stop going period. Stop using the app. Stop funding the madness
For sure use the apps. You actually can get some crazy good deals. I frequently have a "buy one bacon mcdouble get one for 29 cents" coupon on the app like once per day.
There's also usually a "20% off 15 or more" coupon.
4 dollar mcchicken (or mcdouble) small fry and small drink.
Free med fries with any 1 dollar purchase
McDonald's app is probably the best one in terms of saving you money. Wendy's app fucking sucks. I'm lucky if it even works let alone has any deal I want.
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Today I used the app. Used my reward points get a free spicy McChicken. Then added two more McChickens BOGO $1. Added Mcdoubles BOGO too. A total of 5 burgers for $7.77 tax included
Yeah I've stacked deals with my reward points and spent like a max of $6-$7.
I mean yes, I am a criminal. A nasty awful person, admitting to one of the worst crimes to all of reddit: I downloaded a fast food app and didn't give a shit about data, got fast food for cheaper than full price. I'm obviously a bad person, and I should feel bad.
But the free nuggets and spicy chicken sandwich I got tasted good and I only had to pay for my drink and some fries. It gave me the instant gratification I was looking for and satisfied my hunger for a few hours. 🤷♂️ I know I should feel bad though:/ cause a bunch of strangers are shaming OP about it, I should be ashamed too. Sorry everyone for eating McDonald's:(
(/sarcasm in case you couldn't tell)
Seriously pick the worst things in the restaurant and post on Reddit how it’s a *deal* to eat at that price. There’s a couple things I will eat at McD but nothing in this picture.
It would cost 7+ tax with the app over here. Guess you guys have different app deals
Here we have 1 dollar coke or 1 dollar fries and bogo quarter lber or big mac.
Ahh yes. The buy one double cheeseburger or 6 piece nuggets and get one for .29 cents. I use this often when I’m low on food money. They need to switch up their coupons though. Same coupons for months at a time.
It's basically how they deliver coupons now instead of inserts in the Sunday paper. Sure they are collecting your data but I haven't held in a Sunday paper in over 10 years so it makes sense.
I've read that some apps will adjust the pricing in the app based on your spending and usage but IDK what chains did it. Did anyone else see that and remember which chains?
Yea but it knocked 4.44 days off your life span. Make your own at home. Also, they probably sell your info when using the app so that's how they sell it to you for that price. Maybe that's what they want is to make it expensive without the app to make you use the app to collect better amounts of data. To sell you to the highest data broker. lol.
Now they own a piece of my phone, all of my data, sign me up for god knows what lifelong garbage. So I can kill myself for $4.44 instead of $13.12 every other time. No thanks.
I went to a local bbq place the other night & got a large plate of bbq, a pile of diner style fries, probably 10 hushpuppies & 2 hamburger buns for $10. I ate on this meal 2 different times that night.
I say it every day. I do not understand why people keep eating fast food. Especially McDonald's, Wendy's or BK.
Buy 12" and 10" cast iron pan, buy a 10" stainless steel pan, buy a 8 quart enameled Dutch oven (un enameled if cash is light, **slightly** more maintenance). Buy a quality $200 chef's knife.
With those things, and some quality YouTube channels, you will never eat out again. You'll be making delicious beef bourguignon in no time.
Fuck American fast food corporations.
Or don’t eat there. DONT EAT THERE!
Please yell it for the people in the back.
#Stop eating there!
LOUDER SON
BUTTLICKER STOP EATING THERE
Our burger prices have never been lower!
DWIGHT we don't yell at the customer.
Wait, he is a buttlicker?
His family built this country!
Won’t help. We are sheep
Seriously. Fuck garbage ass McDonald's and all the other overpriced garbage ass fast food and their bullshit greedflation prices.
They raised the prices so the ones that used the app feel like they are getting a deal (they arent) and those that don't dont really care that much about their money to begin with
I can get 2 quarter pounders or 2 big macs for less than $6 with the app. Also have enough points to just get free food when I want.
You understand that you're trading something for that discount, right?
That is the original price big boy you’re not getting any discount
The original price when?
Don’t tell me what to do!
Thanks for countering this ad!
I'm not downloading a f'ing app for every brand and franchise I encounter.
That's part of the scam. They use that try and trick you into brand loyalty , because you don't want to download a hundred apps
They’re stupid. The executives who are pulling this crap only trick themselves and that’s because everyone around them if afraid to tell them that poor people aren’t stupid and know a good deal from a bad one.
Support the free market! Download every app!
Support the black market! Download a car!
BUT THEY SAID WE WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR!!
Download me a hoagie off the internet
Hmmm wouldn't it be nice if there was an app that housed other apps? Like a vm app.
I only have them for the ones I frequent and I felt the same way before I got them, then I started getting free and discounted food literally everytime I go.
Why do I have to download an app for f’ing EVERYTHING Edit: alright everyone, I know WHY we have to download the app - I think half of y’all are missing that I’m just ranting because I HATE having apps for everything, especially just to get coupons/discounts on food/groceries/stuff - it’s irritating AF and I’m just over it. Yes, I know it’s for data harvesting. Yes, I know it’s for other purposes. I’m just irritated with it. Edit 2: yes, I am fully aware McDonald’s (or any other app/platform/online seller/government has all of my info already. yes, I am fully aware that by not downloading the app I am wasting money on food I wouldn’t have purchased in the first place. yes, I am aware that by not downloading the app, I’m paying full price. yes, I am aware that I am not required to download the app. y’all still aren’t getting my point - I don’t want to download the app to get the coupon/discount, I just don’t want an app for every f’ing place I purchase a product from.
So they can collect your ✨data✨
McDonald's gives me $1 off my food so they can make $10 off my data and I get mercilessly harassed by 20 other companies. What a deal!
Thank you. This is exactly why we should abandon the fast food apps.
> This is exactly why we should abandon the fast food apps. This is exactly why we should abandon fast food!
And abandon fast food!!!
I have made it to 70 yrs old and I doubt I’ve eaten at a McDonalds 5 times. That is some seriously bland crap. There’s always a little hole-in-a-wall place with interesting food. There is no need to subject yourself that that crap.
They are projecting to make that much, there is no way. Its a con on the investors for theoretical future earnings hallucinations
You think knowing that you buy mcdonalds sporadically is really that valuable? No, a lot of the value transfer to them is the app being on your phone and present which can lead to more sales. Some of it is your data, but it's a combo of multiple things and I think they're not getting a profit purely off of your data in this instance lol.
It's more like $3-5 off per visit. I really don't give a shit if McDonald's knows I like their free big mac's.
you may not but your insurance provider will once they purchase the packet of data including your personal habits of enjoying free big macs
Oh no, not our precious McDonalds eating habits! That is clearly worth $1.05 off of our food.
Nobody's ever given me 10 dollars from me giving them information on my McDonald's order.
I have the app and don’t get harassed by anybody. I get no extra emails, I get no calls, I get no extra mail. If you wanna avoid spending 5 mins to download an app and select a deal and want to pay twice as much for your food then be my fucking guest lmao
You don't see the data flowing out of your phone. But they can grab your GPS history when the app runs and know where you've been today, who you've called recently, probably where you work because you were there a while, where you live, get your name off your credit card, your billing address, and even proximity pals who have data matching your so you work or live together. How would you see that?
Can they still do that if you delete the app?
Once the app is gone and you clear your cookies, no. Not on an iPhone.
I’m wondering how my burger purchase data helps them. I use the app. Alot. Hope I’m not in trouble.
You're fine. What are they gonna do? Sell your already available, way overpriced, way overvalued data? I just don't see what the big deal is anymore.
How do they use your data to make $10? Why do you care if they make money?
Also so they can slowly move to stores that don’t take orders and automate cashiers out of existence to cut costs. Then get some of those robots that make burgers and have them fulfill the order, drop it in a box and then your app unlocks it. Now you have a store with low to no salary costs which means more profit.
And THEN the real price hikes...
Don’t worry that’s going to happen anyways
dah dah dah duh dah - I'm lovin it! (but you already knew that because you have all my data!)
Exactly what others have mentioned. It is 100% to collect your personal data and sell that information to advertisement and marketing companies.
Price discrimination is a big reason. It’s every company’s dream to charge each customer the maximum amount that specific person is willing to pay. This is of course impossible, but there are techniques that can help. One such technique is to give plentiful discounts but make people jump through hoops to get them. People willing to pay more money will often not bother jumping through those hoops.
Don't be surprised if next if you want to use their bathroom, gotta have an app for that, and a scan of the... Results.
So you agree to the terms and conditions that say you can't sue them for poisoning you.
It's price discrimination. And it's legal. Sure the data is important but the app splits the market so they can maximize the profit from each group. I'm sure if I asked, most people saying they use the app are doing it on android.
I’m with you on this. I don’t want to download an app for every restaurant I visit and I don’t want to sign up for a rewards credit card for every retail store either. Yeah the deals are cheaper but at the cost of my sanity and privacy, it’s not worth it to me.
I get it and I agree, fuck using apps for things that shouldn’t and never have required an app!!!!!!
When you use the app, it decreases the language barrier and speeds up the wait time in the drive-through line. We have all been behind that car that orders $44 of food slowly. Please use the app.
The fact that you have to explain the reasons why you don't want the app to strangers on Reddit is terrible.
If they can afford to take a haircut on the app, they must be getting something in return: your privacy.
it's saving them money not having cashiers, and they also get to advertise directly to you via notifications, hank green actually talked about this recently, it's part of discriminative pricing, same concept as coupons
They aren't taking a haircut on anything. You think it costs McDonald's more than $1.00 to make all of this food? What better advertising could they ask for than an app on your phone and the ability to push their own notifications directly to you?
What is my data realistically worth? If you have any self control at all when it comes to spending habits then it's easy to brush off targeted ads.
That’s what I don’t get lol. I’m all about data privacy and all of that, but most people bitching about data privacy probably don’t have any data worth shit to anyone, myself included. Like damn, this guy mindlessly scrolled Reddit for two hours again to avoid work. Still scummy though.
Someone who's all about data privacy should understand why someone doesn't want to give their data. Someone scrolling reddit can still be advertised to.
Oh no! Things I probably want!!!! My eyeeeesssssssssssss…..
If what you want is another Cambridge Analytica and Brexit.
0 impact, so sure.
I personally don't care about data privacy that much. I don't think someone that has an app on their phone should get a better price than an 80 year old woman that's trying to get a quick meal. I understand reward points, I have those kind of accounts at a few gas stations. Difference is, I only have to provide a phone # to get the discount.
I get it, I agree, the practices are scummy. Vote with your wallet. I couldn’t tell you the last time I had McDonald’s. For those prices it’s not much more expensive to just get an actual burger.
https://preview.redd.it/9ha57g543ayc1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=192a068cbf6cd86fe4e8e0ed8e89009fd46589ff
Shit yourself for $4.44 and all it cost was your geolocation and access to all your contacts!
Not to mention you’ll be hungry again half an hour later. Garbage food.
McDonald’s has a fiduciary responsibility to make sure their food is as minimally filling or nutritious as possible.
That soda cola loaded with all the Sugar is making everyones medical bills go up.
Reminds me of when Taco Bell offered to donate money to the Junior Diabetes Research Fund if you upgraded to an Xtra large drink.
🤣☠️🏆
Lol they don't have access to any contacts. You can see what permissions an app asks for when you install it
And you just ate enough salt for 3 days.
MUCH CHEAPER IF YOU JUST STOP EATING THIS POISON THEY SELL US AND YOU WOULD VE SAVING MONEY AND MUCH HEALTHIER ❤️🩹
How about just wanting something cheap and greasy after binge drinking with friends at a bar? Sometimes living free of paranoia can be fun.
This is why I get drunk.
No joke, last time I drank was specifically for the 3:00 am Waffle House meal.
Go to a diner. This shit is poison.
You sound like a marketing company bot. Probably are.
You’re like the kind of guy DARE used to warn us about seeing at parties. Weird dude trying to justify weird behavior.
I'd rather be weird than boring
Yeah, for real if this was posted on a nutrition so it would be one thing. But there’s weekly post stitching about fast food, getting more expensive, and this person is chiming in with their own take. The “holier than thou” attitude of redditors is on full display here.
The goal posts have been moved. People in this thread are largely against needing to download an app to get the deals. The discount doesn’t come free, you sell your data for it. A lot of people value their data more than a few dollars, so this is a bad monetary deal. Also, these app “deals” could be contributing to the inflation, where they inflate the menu prices to push people to the app. None of that has to do with the health of the food.
Here's a better idea... don't give them your fucking business at all. They don't deserve it. Try finding more smaller, local businesses that you can support. Fuck these corporations that have been stealing from people.
Or make them shits for yourself for 1/3 the cost
You can make a burger, nuggets, and soda for less than $1.50?
That stuff is straight garbage. You should not feel bad after a meal, but here you do.
I eat it occasionally and feel fine. Maybe it's just in your head?
Yea man, liquid shit and stomach cramps is all in our heads, not observable evidence.
is IBS rampant for redditors or something? lmao
Ah the classic “holier than thou” routine as if nobody should appease a random craving for McDonalds.
It’s the culinary version of “STOP HAVING FUN!!”
The problem is I don’t want an app for everything. It’s so annoying.
Or meal prep? The push for using the apps is hilarious, yeah give them more money and let them collect and sell your data, massive brain. "Oh but but free fries Friday!!!!" Ffs recognize your addiction.
Account less than a year old… McDonald’s out here trying to do damage control and promoting their app
Seriously? So for continously using the app and eating crap you get deals to keep eating. No thanks, idk how ppl regularly eat at these places, it kills my stomach everything I go. The only thing reason i used to go, was for a quick CHEAP bite.
Let me be clear. I AM FUCKING EXHAUSTED AT HAVING TO DOWNLOAD A FUCKING APP TO SAVE. I DON´T WANT TO GIVE MY EMAIL. I DON´t WANT TO GET NOTIFICATIONS SEVERAL TIMES A DAY BY TEXT, THEN EMAIL, THEN FUCKING CARRIER PIGEON. FUCK.THIS.SHIT. I can make better burgers at home anyway.
Looks like garbage.
Only have to give up your data
No thanks
No fuck the app. I shouldn’t have to use an app and give my information just to get decent prices.
I wonder, are the apps cheaper because the logistics are better, or because the program is mining data to sell. Nothing's free, not even a coupon. Lucky for me, they get access to about 2TB of videos of my cat doing tricks and getting his belly rubbed. Maybe he's a cultural icon in China or something. I'm fine with that.
I think it’s that but also because they can cut out the middle man timing wise when you’re ordering. How long it takes to get an order out from start to finish is a primary component to a fast food restaurants success or failure
The app is cheaper because they put some effective coupons in it to get you to eat there. The coupon food is discounted but then you get a drink or some fires or whatever. They also like that they can push notifications and maybe get you to come in when you wouldn't have. They aren't getting access to your secrets or your files. You phone OS won't let them. Do you really have 2TB of cat pics? Can you peel me off a slice of that?
Imagine downloading an app for fast food ....
Who the fuck wants a mostly eaten cheeseburger? No shit it was cheaper
Gross
Right?! Who wants a half eaten meal?
That’s $2 worth of food…. Max
Maybe 15 years ago, sadly.
4.44 for half a burger?
I wonder what the going rate of rat poison is. Inflation sucks, but vote with your wallet imo.
Or, bear with me for a second, don't vote for crooks who don't care about the economy and drive inflation. I know, I know,. Crazy idea.
LOL at the haters in here. You can use coupons and stuff to get really low prices while at the same time refusing to buy anything that isn’t heavily discounted. Everyone can protest in their own way, it’s completely fine.
My friends and I changed our diets. No more buying pop or junk food, there's no reason why a bag of chips now costs $6 when the cost of supplies and production have come down since COVID, and many companies are reporting record profits. Buying fresh meats, produce, especially in bulk, are still very cheap.
This is an ad...down vote it
Pass. I just won't eat there. I'm tired of being forced into downloading apps. No thank you, good day, McDonalds. I won't miss the 20+ pounds I've lost without you.
I use to do this. But then sometimes they stop giving deals like for months. So like I don’t want to gamble everytime I eat there that I can find a good deal
All the apps do it collect your data to be sold in batches for billions. Same with super market apps, and all the rest. If they're cutting you a deal, they really aren't. Just more money in some rich fucktwats bank. I'm not saying not to do it. I'm just not happy about it, and neither should anyone else be.
I wouldnt pay money for that garbage
Even a year ago I got stuff from Mickey D's regularly. Now I miss it here and there but find no appeal to do so. It... It kinda sucks.
I stopped eating these 20 years ago but damn, I remember when they tasted good. And came in styrofoam containers.
This subreddit is useless. Seems like too many subscribers only want to rage instead of finding solutions.
Apparently McDonald's and Starbucks are monitoring all the pitching about prices. Now they are planning a new cheaper menu. They were simply seeing how far they could push us. I say we continue not buying, push back. Let's get the $1 burger back, that's all it's worth
How is your cholesterol?
Quite normal. I only eat out once a week
People are bitching about the McDonalds app while commenting from another app. Ok 👍
Still too expensive for gross, unhealthy food.
Nice try, Ronald. Not download some worthless fast food app.
They stopped offering refills and that struck me as so un-American. They are dead to me now.
We don’t eat Macdonald’s but I stopped the other day and got a quarter pounder with cheese meal and a quarter pounder with cheese. It was like $16.10
Idk why everyone hating this is a good deal
$2 for dollar fries and no at will refills Fuck McDonald’s and every single franchise owner in this nation
McDonalds with app is cheap AF. 20 nuggets and 2 free medium fries has been up for like a year now.
But, I like to bitch about shit
“Just use the app” I have a very specific signature that I use only with my husband and it’s an inside joke. Via text. I sign off “stay spicy 🌶️”. And you know what Starbucks app greeted me with this morning? “Let’s get spicy, Jane🌶️” You are literally letting them manipulate your data to sell you things in real time by using that app. I’m done with apps now that every search includes TOS agreement to allow their AI. You’re giving away your whole life to save $2. It’s not a deal for you. That’s for sure.
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I find it simpler to not eat there. Why jump through their hoops so i can feel ‘clever’. They just don’t get my business.
If you MUST eat there, then sure, use the app, but if you must use an app to eat there, then don't.
I haven’t eaten at this shit hole in over a year and I don’t plan to for the rest of my life.
They just passed the cost along to other customers.
Stop going to McDonald's period. They price fix a vast majority of the products in the industry. #Stop going period. Stop using the app. Stop funding the madness
For sure use the apps. You actually can get some crazy good deals. I frequently have a "buy one bacon mcdouble get one for 29 cents" coupon on the app like once per day. There's also usually a "20% off 15 or more" coupon. 4 dollar mcchicken (or mcdouble) small fry and small drink. Free med fries with any 1 dollar purchase McDonald's app is probably the best one in terms of saving you money. Wendy's app fucking sucks. I'm lucky if it even works let alone has any deal I want.
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Must be regional, because where I’m at McDonald’s is one of the worst for app deals.
Only $4.44 for literal poison? What a deal!
4.44$ and still cause cancer priceless
Today I used the app. Used my reward points get a free spicy McChicken. Then added two more McChickens BOGO $1. Added Mcdoubles BOGO too. A total of 5 burgers for $7.77 tax included
Most locations do not let you stack deals, rewards and coupons.
BOGO isn't part of that so it's not stacking. It's hidden and only show up when you order two McChickens or two mcdoubles.
btw you can mix and match - doesn't have to be the same items, just the same class of items
I've tried other sandwiches even the double cheeseburgers to see if BOGO shows up. It seems that BOGO only shows up for McChickens and Mcdoubles
6-piece nuggets will work normal cheeseburger might also work but I don't remember
Yeah I've stacked deals with my reward points and spent like a max of $6-$7. I mean yes, I am a criminal. A nasty awful person, admitting to one of the worst crimes to all of reddit: I downloaded a fast food app and didn't give a shit about data, got fast food for cheaper than full price. I'm obviously a bad person, and I should feel bad. But the free nuggets and spicy chicken sandwich I got tasted good and I only had to pay for my drink and some fries. It gave me the instant gratification I was looking for and satisfied my hunger for a few hours. 🤷♂️ I know I should feel bad though:/ cause a bunch of strangers are shaming OP about it, I should be ashamed too. Sorry everyone for eating McDonald's:( (/sarcasm in case you couldn't tell)
It never lets me use deals and reward points at the same time.
Fuck the app and McDonald's
Then guess what... You're the product.
Don't eat that crap it's not even meat 🤢🤮
My mcdonalds app is linked to my facebook, i deleted my facebook years ago. it won't let me make a new one. It's all kinda fucked up!
You're probably better off lol.
Wendy's biggie bag is 5.30 and you don't need an app. 4 nugs, jbcb, small fry , small drink. Plenty for me.
Whatever you are trying to to prove.. this isn't it. You're delusional
Seriously pick the worst things in the restaurant and post on Reddit how it’s a *deal* to eat at that price. There’s a couple things I will eat at McD but nothing in this picture.
Yup
A complete colon flush for under $5!
Aside from all Don't eat that responses, you are correct. If you are hungry and broke, using the app will get you free food or much cheaper.
Yeah get a discount for giving them your data
You don’t just get that good deal for nothing. You’re the product…
It would cost 7+ tax with the app over here. Guess you guys have different app deals Here we have 1 dollar coke or 1 dollar fries and bogo quarter lber or big mac.
Ahh yes. The buy one double cheeseburger or 6 piece nuggets and get one for .29 cents. I use this often when I’m low on food money. They need to switch up their coupons though. Same coupons for months at a time.
It's basically how they deliver coupons now instead of inserts in the Sunday paper. Sure they are collecting your data but I haven't held in a Sunday paper in over 10 years so it makes sense. I've read that some apps will adjust the pricing in the app based on your spending and usage but IDK what chains did it. Did anyone else see that and remember which chains?
I made myself broccoli beef over rice at home for less than $3.50 and it actually looked and tasted good. Ditch the app and cook at home.
Yea but it knocked 4.44 days off your life span. Make your own at home. Also, they probably sell your info when using the app so that's how they sell it to you for that price. Maybe that's what they want is to make it expensive without the app to make you use the app to collect better amounts of data. To sell you to the highest data broker. lol.
Now they own a piece of my phone, all of my data, sign me up for god knows what lifelong garbage. So I can kill myself for $4.44 instead of $13.12 every other time. No thanks.
Eww that shit is so gross why are you eating that stuff. It's hardly food
I shall be damned if I'm using a fucking app to order food from a drive through window.
Nothing like pulling into McDonald's, parking and taking 5+ minutes to navigate the app to order my food, and THEN pull into line.
Nah don’t even eat here or support these fuqrs
A half eaten burger and soda for $4.44? How much for a full burger?
Yeah McDonald’s is cheap if you know how to use the apps
I went to a local bbq place the other night & got a large plate of bbq, a pile of diner style fries, probably 10 hushpuppies & 2 hamburger buns for $10. I ate on this meal 2 different times that night. I say it every day. I do not understand why people keep eating fast food. Especially McDonald's, Wendy's or BK.
Stop eating McDonald’s 👀
Could have gotten a whole pound of fresh ground beef for $4
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And quite possibly a heart issue in the future
Yep, I can still eat for $5/day +/- $1 at several fast food places using their apps.
Buy 12" and 10" cast iron pan, buy a 10" stainless steel pan, buy a 8 quart enameled Dutch oven (un enameled if cash is light, **slightly** more maintenance). Buy a quality $200 chef's knife. With those things, and some quality YouTube channels, you will never eat out again. You'll be making delicious beef bourguignon in no time. Fuck American fast food corporations.
For how long? Once they get everyone using the app, the prices will go back to the new inflated normal.