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Must eat at McDonald’s.
I’m surprised they are not all 200%, didn’t tge money supply double in that time period?
200% is 3x
Also, money supply metric is a bad proxy for inflation
McDoubles were $1 many places until 2016 or later. My standard McD meal for years was 3 McDoubles for $3. After that they raised McDoubles to closer to $2 but the McTriple was also about $2 so I switched to 2 McTriples for $4.
Now the only way to get a decent price meal is to use the app and I refuse to use the app. Now and then they’ll have a 2/$6 deal but it still feels overpriced.
I got two mcdoubles and a pineapple mango smoothie the other day and it was 12 bucks. First time I went in over a year. Canada. I’ll never go back
I gave up on McDonalds. I can get better food elsewhere for half the price. Their trash was ok for pushing a turd, but not for what they charge today.
Everyone knows that McDonald’s don’t degrade over time. You can put one in its original bag in the closet for a number of years without problems.
Shame on you for not buying in bulk when the price was more amenable. Get down to your local McDonald’s now and buy yourself at least 57 Big Macs which I’ve calculated to be the optimal amount until global warming renders this planet a cinder. And get me a chocolate milkshake while you’re at it, please.
Prices fit for a billionaire who wears depends
Don’t eat fast food. It is really bad for you and will eventually kill you.
I mean, do whatever you want to your own body, but for gods sake don’t feed that utter shit to your kids!
Not Worth it their food is not very good anyways its average.
What’s actually infuriating are those bar charts.
IMO, it might be a good idea to compare those prices against relative purchasing power of a dollar. I don’t know how those prices stack up to the overall rate of inflation or CPI, or even the cost of the specific ingredients. I would have less of an issue with price increases if a) McDonald’s profit margin–as a percentage of cost–remained steady, and b) the cost held steady against the relative value of the dollar overall. If it’s just arbitrarily raising prices because they can, then that’s bullshit.
McDonald’s profit margin–as a percentage of cost–remained steady
It’s cute you think a publicly traded company would allow for that, especially for a leader in a market as fully saturated as fast-food. When you’ve reached every person, there’s not much left to do but increase profit margins by cutting costs and raising prices.
If that line stops going up, executives can be voted out by the shareholders and lose their generous pay packages and bonuses! Last year’s billions in profit just isn’t good enough when there’s quarterly earnings reports to be made and shareholder wealth to be maximized!
That’s one of the major issues that I have with corporations; there’s very little interest in sustainable profitability, and a laser-like focus on growth for the sake of growth. And sometimes the product that a company makes isn’t even “sustainable” per se. That is, if you make certain durable goods, eventually you should be reaching a point where demand will slow to a trickle as the market becomes saturated, and that’s okay.
From a quick googlebthe dollar inflation is up 33% since 2014. The lowest increase is 67%.
To compare, inflation from 2014 to 2025 has been about 33%
Did the UK Lib Dems make this bar chart?
I don’t understand the insinuation you’re going for. Care to explain?
The Liberal Democrats in the UK are infamous for their dodgy bar charts in election leaflets, where the percentages don’t match up with the bars at all.
Similar to this:
It’s a running joke in the UK.
If this was just McDonalds, shouldn’t there be a Burger King that didn’t raise prices to try to gain back market share?
And if this was all fast food joints, is there a common reason besides greed that it happened? If it was just greed, you would think one of their competitors could WALMART (lower prices until competition dies) them.
Because they aren’t competing in the way free market ideologists say they should. It generally takes a 200 level economics class less than a day to figure out a price cartel is far better for the companies involved. I’m sure the professionals have their back channels and third party price consultants already figured out.
Thats because they have formed an oligopoly.
A loose one but yes… They dream of set up like health insurance for example
The graph itself’s utter lack of proportion is more infuriating than the content.
I don’t always ruin my graphs, but when i do it’s to advertise for the company the graph is dumping on
They did bring back the 5 dollar meal though, at least in my region. Which immediately makes them a viable option.
But the five dollar meal is weird in comparison to everything else they offer.
For example, a small fries by itself is $2.50 half the cost of the whole 5 dollar meal.
To me this indicates that they’re just arbitrarily increasing prices for the sake of them being more expensive.
The problem of course with raising prices at McDonald’s is that people eat there because they’re supposed to be cheap and fast. Not because of their “gourmet” food.
