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I don’t see anyone mentioning the proportions of the bars. For example, on the 1st item, $1 vs $2.99 is not even double the size…
At first, I was assaulted by the percentage representation. Then I cooled down and thought, it’s not the percentage, but those bars are the absolute height of the price! Me smart, until I took a look again and now my hate is burning so, so hard for this graph. It is designed to enrage.
They’re not. The $3 bar is not 3x the height of the $1 bar next to it. The $2.99 bar on the right is higher than the $2.99 bar on the left. Someone just free drew the bars and it’s extremely noticeable and annoying.
They borked their graph to make room for the picture of the girl for some reason
I think they scaled them in proportion to their group.
Remove one entire group (e.g. 2014) and I think you will see it.
Not sure what you mean. The McChicken bars are not showing a 200% increase regardless of how you slice it.
It’s still not consistent… The $11 2024 10-piece nugget is less than double the $5 4-piece nugget of the same year. The 2014 mcdouble and 2014 oreo mcflurry are way too close to eachother 😢
Hah! That’s a very good point. Why make a bar chart if it’s not even showcasing the correct values, which in this case actually helps the message?
We used to call this fast food. I would say it is barely 1 of the 2 words in that description.
It is of low nutritional quality, bad for the environment, and takes forever if you dont order the popular stuff. It is often lukewarm at best and they often fuck up the order.
I just see this stuff as a waste of time and health.
Fast food didn’t just stop being cheap, it also stopped being fast. Might not be the case for everywhere, but when they got the self-checkout screens they started making every order in order, and nothing more. Now if I order a single item, I still have to wait if there are many orders before mine. I miss the time when I could look behind the cashier and see what they had pre-made to get something immediately.
It’s fast enough in the drive thru. Notice how dining in has become worse in every way? Fuck me, you can’t even get your own salt and ketchup. They don’t want us hanging out because it costs them more.
Don’t eat fast food, make your own.
If you’re already at home it’s faster too.
It’s largely because of new tiered pricing. They want to extract the maximum price while not losing any customers.
To do this, they first double or triple all their prices. Then, for those who are willing to stand on one leg, pat their head, and rub their stomach* while ordering the right things, they’ll charge you half price.
(*By this I mean use their app. The main purpose of the app and the deals are to charge everyone what they’re willing to pay.)
Is that little girl in the picture to blame?
That bitch stealin Wendy’s do though. Bout to see them throw down.
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.
2024 their sales went down for the first time, so they cut the prices a bit on some meals, but you get a small drink and a small frie like we’re fucking stupid. If you up it back to medium fries and drink it’s the same shitty overpriced deal.
It got me over the idea of stopping for fast food. Fuckem
Im not sure how infuriating this is at least for me. I always knew I ate to much fast food but it was just to cheap and convenient and hard to kick. Now I pretty much don’t buy it. In the last few years I have only had it a few times and it was under the most stressful of situations (wife in the hospital and running around and late at night and just needed something to fill the stomach). Fast food becoming to expensive to not think about budget wise is one of the few good things to come out of the recent inflation. Especially since I don’t use smartphones or apps there of.
Sooooo, stop eating there? It’s expensive enough bowing to the grocery cartels, who can afford to eat out?
Yet another reason to stop eating there
You mean providing a photo opportunity for a billionaire to roleplay being a poor to help him get elected wasn’t enough to get progressive to boycott them? I think that’s much more actively politically involved than Hobby Lobby or Chic Fil A.
I can blame McDonald’s for a lot of things, but not this. They didn’t really get a choice.
They could make it policy not to publicly endorse political candidates in their stores.
Beat meat to it.
Also nice username.
God I wish that plane went down
I don’t eat there so the jokes on them!
Mildly infuriating is +122% being the largest bar graph and +199% is the smallest.
Except for the left side, the bars are proportionate to price in dollars. The percent increase that amounts to is marked above the bars, and that number should match up to the visual difference between the 2014 price and the 2024 price, compared to the 2014 price alone.
The 3 yellow bars on the left are nonsense and seem to have been drawn like that just to fit that picture of the girl in.
Where are these prices from? A quarter pounder meal is under $10 where I am.
What’s actually infuriating are those bar charts.
The two inflation calculators that I found said that a dollar in 2014 should be worth $1.33 in 2025. That’s significantly lower than the lowest price increase in this infographic.
Also most of that inflation was the last few years, driven mostly by corporate greed. Not from rising company expenses.
