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by add-sub-mul-div 866 days ago
I'm not giving up my phone to them for their bottom tier food.
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For me, I couldn't easily even if I wanted to, they use country-specific app stores for their app, and I don't live in the country my app store is set to. This is the first app I've encountered using such regional app stores. I'm sure there is a reason they do that, but I can't for the life of me guess it.
I support you in that, but this really shows that you're just outside of their target market.

Did they lose a customer?

McDonald's, Taco Bell, all of these fast food places which people are mentioning are just jacking prices, well they're already everywhere. It seems to make sense that when you've got total market penetration, the final thing to do is milk your customers for all they've got, and I think that's what we're seeing here.

Then why are you buying from them in the first place?
I'm not. I still eat some fast food, if it's higher quality than McDonald's. But the price of fast food relative to real food has gone up everywhere and it doesn't really make sense anymore so I'm eating less of it.

In principle I also won't use any apps, hence my comment.

Because you can get bottom tier food without giving up the data on your phone
What data is McD extracting from your phone?
I assume any data they can get you to give them permission to take. Assume they don't at your own peril