[drew870mitchell]

We lost something as a society when McDonald's shifted its good prices to their app. I'm able to keep up with the app deals but it's frustrating to spend any brain space on something that was simply $1 or $2 without fuss a decade ago. If McDonald's was simply keeping up with inflation instead of cravenly trying to revenue-management squeeze their customers, these items would be $1.30-$2.60 now. Certainly they're squeezing more orders out of fewer staff so I'm not sympathetic here to arguments that low-end wages are to blame.

There's a regional chain here whose prices (and ads, interiors, and everything else) seem to be stuck in the 90s, and i like them, but i groaned when i saw that my last order came in a bag promoting their new app deals.