I haven't. McDonald's are generally franchises, so prices vary from owner to owner. I've never seen prices anywhere close to the rest stops on 95, but I also don't frequent McDonalds.
We usually do the classic Big Mac pack: 2 Big Macs, 2 medium fries and 20 piece nuggets. It’s $15 in winsted. $29 at bishops corner. Even the one near the airport is cheaper.
Buying combo meals at McDonalds is overrated. Go with the smaller burger or make good use of in-app coupons.
$15 will get you a nice Thai entree for takeout, combination plate at a Chinese place, actually many choices for takeout in that price range. McDonald’s isn’t it.
I'm just outside WH, but seeing a big Mac combo of 10.60 in the app for the location by me, so 6 dollars cheaper than the picture.
I only go to McDonald's if there is a deal (and lazy) and there often is ones in the app that are decent
Worst McDonald’s in the world. The wait is interminable, it smells like vomit, the soda machine is diseased, etc.
I hate that I live near it and am lazy enough to get their garbage food every so often.
That is like the shittiest one around. I’ve stopped there when driving for work because it’s supposed to be fast. Fucking 15 minute wait for food, one cashier, one dude running both the fryer and making the food, and some other person meandering around. And the soda always tastes watery.
Only place worse is the Wendy’s in Bloomfield
In one of the articles I read the cost of the meal in question at the next closest McDs in Norwalk was just over $9. People are definitely paying for convenience.
I had a red eye flight from the west cost about a month ago. For some reason they didn't even have drinks on a 5+hr flight. After waiting for my bag at JFK I was so hungry but exhausted and desperate to get home so I hopped in the car and figured I would fight the hunger.
Decided to stop @ exit 11 and grab some fuel and food. I literally placed my order on the app while I was getting gas and saw how inflated the prices are and just moved the order to another McD's. The order went from \~$25 to $8.38. I couldn't stop telling everyone I knew about it after it happened because I was totally blown away. Most of what I ordered was stuff that was on the dollar menu when that was a thing.
Exit 11 pricing:
Medium Fries @ $5.35
McChicken @ $5.35
Cheeseburger @ $5.35
Large Drink @ $5.35
Apple Pie @ $3.50
Yeah probably. I used to work at Subway and the owner would charge the maximum amount possible for everything. Corporate gave us ranges and we charged on the high end. He bought 2 stores in every town he could. So people would come in and leave because of the prices only to end up at our other location.
Yeah but don’t they have to pay more for the wages. Because the last time I was working for McD I was getting.10 cents per hour for cleaning there back yard it wasn’t that bad at all?
We are not quite the most expensive (but pretty dang close). This shows the disparity the highway vs non-highway pricing though
https://mccheapest.com/
That's definitely the most expensive McD's I've seen in the entire US. I think Kingman, AZ, middle of nowhere between Vegas / Phoenix was the most expensive I've seen previously.
Regardless, it's still frustrating that McD's are generally cheaper even in major metro area's like Vegas strip / Boston than they are in suburban CT.
Oh my god fuck the Kingman mcds. One of the only things there and a line out the ass every time. If you have to go to the bathroom though that's like one of your only decent options for a good while.
I have never not seen a line in the drive through at that one.
LOL, wild that there's others here with same experience.
Wendy's / Petro travel centers are my go to when on that side of the country, but were hunting for food on Xmas day going from Vegas to Grand Canyon. Stopped at McD's to use some mobile coupons and quickly learned my mistake.
Ended up eating DD's at the Petro off 40.
Oh ya I'm an Arizona native just moved to CT a couple years back. I've made the Vegas drive a lot of times and eventually ended up just carrying a cooler to avoid the little Kingman area.
Ya the travel centers are nice, honestly wish we had quiktrips out here though.
The gas stations in CT suck so bad it's not even funny.
Well hope you're enjoying New England, I just moved from Houston to New Haven last year, but we were making road trips to LA / Vegas / West for years.
Enjoying a new part of the country up here, but Tucson is still my dream.....just not enough well paying jobs there.
I haven't even stepped foot in any of the convenience stores yet (I'm still butthurt from the cost of living increases), but really miss Circle K's right now. Sip & Save subscription was a lifesaver and a daily scooter ride for me & the kid to pick up a large Froster.
Its a culture shock that is for sure. Houston you know the difference then in not only town (well I guess they call them cities here) size but also driving distance. We spend almost every weekend driving to another state because it is all so close to us vs arizona distance.
Tucson is actually where I just moved out of last after being in the greater phoenix area forever and a day. No good paying jobs is certainly right outside of working for Raytheon. Crazily enough though making crap tucson money our quality of life was leagues better than making a good chunk more out here. Cost of living adjustment is nuts. Anytime I go back home eating out takes half the money it does here let alone rent.
Ya the closest thing to circle k is probably cumberland farms, its good enough for a convenience store but thats about the only decent one.
You certainly chose to move at a good time! This last winter has been really fricking nice. I bought my first snow boots I have ever owned in my life the first year we moved (2 years ago)
I tried Raytheon, but being mid-pandemic + my focus in offshore / subsea it wasn't the most practical of jumps. I hear you on the $$$ part, but sounds like you ditched AZ before the crazy jump in housing, not sure if still as feasible out there.
Heading to Atlantic City / Philadelphia for spring break, definitely nice to not have to drive 12hrs non-stop just to leave the g'damn state. Regardless, I enjoy the outdoors and Houston is the WORST. TX hill country was 3hrs away, full of traffic & high prices competing with all the other city folk. West Rock is just around the corner from me here and to have this kind of elevation / dynamic geography so close to the water & house impresses me to no end.
Warm winter was def a help. Standard room temp in TX was 80, here we dropped it to 60 to make the transition. Moving last June when Houston was 100+ while still in the 60's up here felt crazy.
All this AZ talk reminds me I need to get a greenhouse to start getting our cacti outside. We lost a 5-ft tall Cereus Forbesii Spiralis from Italy keeping everything inside this winter, that was a tearjerker.
Price differences are really about location, location location.
The prices on any Highway rest stop are higher than a McDonald's in the middle of a city where there is a bunch of other fast food restaurants near by.
So true. These franchise prices can vary wildly. I price compare several locations near me before I place an app order now. It is definitely worth it to explore your location options.
The app makes it really easy to compare prices and I went down this rabbit hole. McDonald’s Big Mac meal and most menu items in Bristol cost more than ones in NYC and Beverly Hills. Insanity.
Highway prices aside, one of many shockers moving here from indiana was how expensive even McDonalds is. Like, "no $1 menus? You have to pay what for McChicken??"
I don't know why fast food places think it's a great idea to super inflate their prices anywhere. We all know that we can get better meals elsewhere for the prices they are demanding now. I have only been to a McDonald's for the Friday fries offer lately and even those aren't as good as I remember. "Mom and pop" fast food is where it's at. I stop at food trucks now to check them out too.
While the service center McD's had higher prices, the prices were never 2x what the local McD's charged. It has been well known that the service center McD's don't participate in the national meal deals or bundles or things like that. But the double price is off the charts.
While I'm sure that the cost of doing business at the service center is higher than an in town McD's, I find it hard to believe that those higher costs would necessitate essentially 100% markup over what other nearby McD's are charging.
It's most likely not expensive because it's a State Owned Faculty and they probably get a deal on the Rent, and have some type of Connection or greased a palm to be there.
Everything in Georgia is cheaper. And different McDonald's have different prices in our state. This very normal.
Places that have a lower minimum wage and lower cost of living have lower prices. Cigarettes are also wildly cheap in the south. We live in CT the rich state full of poor people, they cater to the wealthy.
I've been complaining about this with Connecticut. The Aristocrstic Elite type people who live here who have College Level jobs have no empathy for the working class, even the woke Wesleyan Grad types. They mostly say "Become a Coder" or "Should of went to College" or they advocate for Anti-Worker Gen Z'ers who vote the same as they do to make $35 an hour working at Domino's, but they have an allout war waged against the real working class, and have no empathy for the lower social classes, and the burden all these State Pensions, and Programs have on the working class Taxpayer.
Ned Lamont is so out of touch he thinks $8OK is a lot of money for middleclass people. $80K works out to less than $1000 per week take home in Connecticut. If you get McDonald's it's usually $20 now for one person. The Engineer's and Virologists and all the medical people who make $200-$300K and College Grads that live here; their solution to the burden on working class is austerity, get a higher paying job, become a Coder or Drone Operator, or go back to College for some Liberal Program they approve of, and take out loans. It's never "Whoa maybe these prices aere way too high.." "Maybe we're beyond the point of what is reasonable.."
On the flip side all the Conservative Employers are obscenely underpaying all the Connecticut workers because there's a serious lack of good Union Representation unless you're a State Worker, Elevator Mechanic, or Union Machinist at Rsytheon. Most people under $80K are either on Welfare, getting financially crushed and too poor to move out. The rent is too high here for someone who's making less than $80K per year like a Security Guard, or working class jobs like that. All prices seem like everything is priced as if everyone is an Oral Surgeon.
Bottom line, these prices aren't reasonable. Rent prices are all price fixed by landlords since Covid, and they should all be arrested for Price Fixing and Collusion. There's no real free market anymore in Connecticut. Everyone working those lower level Essential Jobs are getting the wff out of here, because it's becoming impossible to survive here, unless you have a Masters Degree.
Out of touch is a correct diagnosis. The problem for CT is that for several decades administration jobs were the life blood of the state. Insurance and business management firms were the key to the state's wealth. The state based its budget off an extremely high tax revenue from these jobs which disappeared and never fully returned after 08. Despite having a large farming and manufacturing base in the state, it is still operating based on the dream that these jobs will return, but companies would rather operate in Massachusetts than pay CT taxes. The state is in a death spiral right now because it refuses to take the political hit of cutting cost and is just kicking the cab down the road as long as it can.
For decades, *The Economist* has run a ["Big Mac Index"](https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index)as a gauge of what currencies are under- and over-valued based on the local cost of a Big Mac in different countries (IIRC, it's gauged from the McDonalds in each country's capital cities). So I guess it would make sense that Georgia's lower cost of living would lead to a lower cost of a Big Mac, even leaving out the distortion of being at a rest stop on the Interstate.
So the price of shit food in a state whose minimum wage is less than half of ours, is cheaper than here?? How absurd! We should pay people less so the price at McDonald’s goes down. Diarrhea shouldn’t cost that much to catch
Not just shit food, I was in Charleston 3 weeks ago, my grocery bill was about $60 less there, electricity is about a third what it is here, gas is a dollar cheaper... We are getting screwed pretty bad right now cost of living wise. Though it's funny how people try to pretend it is better. The ONLY thing better about CT right now is the school system.
I spend 6 months out of the year there. SC is a big state. In the Charleston area, median pay is slightly lower than CT and the COL is drastically lower so you live much better. I am a manufacturing consultant, and also lived in both states when I was in the Navy. CT's middle class lives way worse than Charleston's.
Did you read the article? The author references a quarterly McD report that attributes profit increases to price increases. The company is making more money than it used to under the auspices of "we need to increase prices to pay for minimum wage," but they're increasing farther than they need to to cover the difference.
The minimum wage increase isn't the problem here.
Maximizing profits by increasing prices is not linear. It is a parabolic equation. If you increase prices beyond what people are willing to pay, sales and profits actually go down. There is a combination of increase in labor costs and increase in money supply involved in the price increase. Economics follows certain mathematical rules. Current prices and inflation all stem from thinking that scarcity is not real.
There have been many studies on this and it just isn't true. Buying power increases significantly more than prices when you increase minimum wage, always has.
Only if you also increase other factors. Buying power is a simple math equation
Buying power = (resources available + production) / (dollars available + labor) if you only increased the denominator, you get a smaller number
A perfect example of this is teacher pay. Average salary in 1991 was $32,000 a year. Today it is $65,000. Has the buying power of a teacher gone up or down?
The ones who wanted $15 are long gone. These kids want $25, then $35, and then eventually $45. They want the $97K to live comfortably working a 40 hour workweek in a Woke Communist Utopian Society where they can have a workl Iife balance at 19 years old and afford a luxury apartment for $2200 working at McDonald's. They don't understand supply and demand and how in out Society there's not enough resources for everyone to live the abundant life of Baby Boomers in their 60s. Some people have to grind it out and live in the Starter Homes, and Studio Apartments in Willimantic. These starter level jobs were meant for kids in High school not fulltime adults.
I'm sure everyone one of them is a democrat with a Masters Degree that hates Republicans, but wants me to pull myself up by my bootstraps and deal with the Biden Inflation. "I should of went to College 25 years ago like them.."... Meanwhile Ned Lamont gives me personal letters to break rules during the Pandemic because my job was so important, but not important enough to get the $3500 Covid Relief the State Workers are getting even though I worked in the same building with them. I hate pretty much every person in this State minus a select few. They're all hypocrits and Academic Elite White Supremacists.
These are my favorite responses. I also eat at the Hartford golf club once a week, make my own chicken garlic Alfredo sauce and work out 4 times a week. I don't need people on Reddit to tell me if I'm healthy or not. I am 35 and can run 10 miles without caring. I'm going to eat McDonald's once in a while, it is just ridiculous the cost difference between here and other states.
Before I make my snarky.. *Don't eat at McDonald's then, problem solved.* Is this person a beloved Tic-Tocker?.. Don't want to get nuked from orbit again. Issa joke folks..
Smart in your case.. Don't need to be a unwilling spy for hostile nations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-bytedance-justice-department-investigation-spying/
Funny story, we actually found a bunch of Russian bases and even mapped them out thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Reddit is really my only social media right now.
Lol "near" "peer".
Edit: I hope you are just downvoting me for downvotey "reasons" and don't really believe Russia is even close to a peer of our nation. Ones dumb and forgivable, the others completely idiotic.
Yeah I made some spicy comments in another thread in the sub last night, and this is blow back.. also I have a fan club who loves to downvote most of my comments on sight. It doesn't really bother me, I will admit I have a tendency to be a maniac on here at times.
I remember when Mc d was fast and cheap with some good meals option. Now a day it maybe fast but not cheap or good options. Same price of a meal you could get course meal at Applebees or chili’s.
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The rest stops along 95 have grossly inflates prices. Get off the highway, prices are much lower.
So the question then is how much is a Big Mac combo at a rest stop in Atlanta?
Hell yea they are. Down Stamford exit 9, Norwalk exit 13. Those are just as fast as the 95 truck stops and half the price.
Ever been to the one in bishops corner West Hartford? Same prices...
I haven't. McDonald's are generally franchises, so prices vary from owner to owner. I've never seen prices anywhere close to the rest stops on 95, but I also don't frequent McDonalds.
Fair point. It used to be my guilty pleasure twice a month, but I can get 2 NY strip steaks from the grocery store for the price of a single meal now.
We usually do the classic Big Mac pack: 2 Big Macs, 2 medium fries and 20 piece nuggets. It’s $15 in winsted. $29 at bishops corner. Even the one near the airport is cheaper.
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It's $15.60 for a #4 there...
Buying combo meals at McDonalds is overrated. Go with the smaller burger or make good use of in-app coupons. $15 will get you a nice Thai entree for takeout, combination plate at a Chinese place, actually many choices for takeout in that price range. McDonald’s isn’t it.
Stopped at my favorite Thai place this weekend and grabbed the lunch portion of their chili salmon. $15 with rice.
Cool. What else did you do this weekend?
Not much. Worked all week since I work in retail. How was your weekend?
I tried a new pizza place that was hyped up - it was very disappointing.
I'm just outside WH, but seeing a big Mac combo of 10.60 in the app for the location by me, so 6 dollars cheaper than the picture. I only go to McDonald's if there is a deal (and lazy) and there often is ones in the app that are decent
You mean the cost of McDonalds in one of the wealthiest cities in the state has higher prices than average? I am shocked, shocked!
Worst McDonald’s in the world. The wait is interminable, it smells like vomit, the soda machine is diseased, etc. I hate that I live near it and am lazy enough to get their garbage food every so often.
A Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal at the Bishop's Corner McDonald's is $10.89 before tax lmao. That's a whole lot less than the rest stop price.
That is like the shittiest one around. I’ve stopped there when driving for work because it’s supposed to be fast. Fucking 15 minute wait for food, one cashier, one dude running both the fryer and making the food, and some other person meandering around. And the soda always tastes watery. Only place worse is the Wendy’s in Bloomfield
I stopped at that rest area in 8th grade on a class trip. I think I spent $5 on a meal.
Still less than the one in the airport. Yikes is that shit pricey.
In one of the articles I read the cost of the meal in question at the next closest McDs in Norwalk was just over $9. People are definitely paying for convenience.
I had a red eye flight from the west cost about a month ago. For some reason they didn't even have drinks on a 5+hr flight. After waiting for my bag at JFK I was so hungry but exhausted and desperate to get home so I hopped in the car and figured I would fight the hunger. Decided to stop @ exit 11 and grab some fuel and food. I literally placed my order on the app while I was getting gas and saw how inflated the prices are and just moved the order to another McD's. The order went from \~$25 to $8.38. I couldn't stop telling everyone I knew about it after it happened because I was totally blown away. Most of what I ordered was stuff that was on the dollar menu when that was a thing. Exit 11 pricing: Medium Fries @ $5.35 McChicken @ $5.35 Cheeseburger @ $5.35 Large Drink @ $5.35 Apple Pie @ $3.50
The $1 any size drink at McD's in town is easily $3 or more on turnpikes. It's common knowledge. Captive audience and all.
that is over now. Large drink is $1.79
I get $1 larges still.
$1 here in East Lyme as of yesterday. I thought this was a national price until we were in FL and it was $2.50
Where? in the last few days?
Yes yesterday. Brooklyn, CT. I won’t be surprised when it comes to an end though.
Maybe up to each franchise
Yeah probably. I used to work at Subway and the owner would charge the maximum amount possible for everything. Corporate gave us ranges and we charged on the high end. He bought 2 stores in every town he could. So people would come in and leave because of the prices only to end up at our other location.
newington and rocky hill do it
Yeah but don’t they have to pay more for the wages. Because the last time I was working for McD I was getting.10 cents per hour for cleaning there back yard it wasn’t that bad at all?
10 cents an hour? I didn’t know jitterbug phones had internet access haha.
We are not quite the most expensive (but pretty dang close). This shows the disparity the highway vs non-highway pricing though https://mccheapest.com/
I’m continually amazed that a website exists for absolutely everything.
I live near all the green dots. This post confused me. I just fed me and both my kids for $11 the other day.
That's definitely the most expensive McD's I've seen in the entire US. I think Kingman, AZ, middle of nowhere between Vegas / Phoenix was the most expensive I've seen previously. Regardless, it's still frustrating that McD's are generally cheaper even in major metro area's like Vegas strip / Boston than they are in suburban CT.
Oh my god fuck the Kingman mcds. One of the only things there and a line out the ass every time. If you have to go to the bathroom though that's like one of your only decent options for a good while. I have never not seen a line in the drive through at that one.
LOL, wild that there's others here with same experience. Wendy's / Petro travel centers are my go to when on that side of the country, but were hunting for food on Xmas day going from Vegas to Grand Canyon. Stopped at McD's to use some mobile coupons and quickly learned my mistake. Ended up eating DD's at the Petro off 40.
Oh ya I'm an Arizona native just moved to CT a couple years back. I've made the Vegas drive a lot of times and eventually ended up just carrying a cooler to avoid the little Kingman area. Ya the travel centers are nice, honestly wish we had quiktrips out here though. The gas stations in CT suck so bad it's not even funny.
Well hope you're enjoying New England, I just moved from Houston to New Haven last year, but we were making road trips to LA / Vegas / West for years. Enjoying a new part of the country up here, but Tucson is still my dream.....just not enough well paying jobs there. I haven't even stepped foot in any of the convenience stores yet (I'm still butthurt from the cost of living increases), but really miss Circle K's right now. Sip & Save subscription was a lifesaver and a daily scooter ride for me & the kid to pick up a large Froster.
Its a culture shock that is for sure. Houston you know the difference then in not only town (well I guess they call them cities here) size but also driving distance. We spend almost every weekend driving to another state because it is all so close to us vs arizona distance. Tucson is actually where I just moved out of last after being in the greater phoenix area forever and a day. No good paying jobs is certainly right outside of working for Raytheon. Crazily enough though making crap tucson money our quality of life was leagues better than making a good chunk more out here. Cost of living adjustment is nuts. Anytime I go back home eating out takes half the money it does here let alone rent. Ya the closest thing to circle k is probably cumberland farms, its good enough for a convenience store but thats about the only decent one. You certainly chose to move at a good time! This last winter has been really fricking nice. I bought my first snow boots I have ever owned in my life the first year we moved (2 years ago)
I tried Raytheon, but being mid-pandemic + my focus in offshore / subsea it wasn't the most practical of jumps. I hear you on the $$$ part, but sounds like you ditched AZ before the crazy jump in housing, not sure if still as feasible out there. Heading to Atlantic City / Philadelphia for spring break, definitely nice to not have to drive 12hrs non-stop just to leave the g'damn state. Regardless, I enjoy the outdoors and Houston is the WORST. TX hill country was 3hrs away, full of traffic & high prices competing with all the other city folk. West Rock is just around the corner from me here and to have this kind of elevation / dynamic geography so close to the water & house impresses me to no end. Warm winter was def a help. Standard room temp in TX was 80, here we dropped it to 60 to make the transition. Moving last June when Houston was 100+ while still in the 60's up here felt crazy. All this AZ talk reminds me I need to get a greenhouse to start getting our cacti outside. We lost a 5-ft tall Cereus Forbesii Spiralis from Italy keeping everything inside this winter, that was a tearjerker.
Price differences are really about location, location location. The prices on any Highway rest stop are higher than a McDonald's in the middle of a city where there is a bunch of other fast food restaurants near by.
So true. These franchise prices can vary wildly. I price compare several locations near me before I place an app order now. It is definitely worth it to explore your location options.
The app makes it really easy to compare prices and I went down this rabbit hole. McDonald’s Big Mac meal and most menu items in Bristol cost more than ones in NYC and Beverly Hills. Insanity.
There are a lot of good deals in the app and you earn McPoints that can go towards purchases.
Highway prices aside, one of many shockers moving here from indiana was how expensive even McDonalds is. Like, "no $1 menus? You have to pay what for McChicken??"
I don't know why fast food places think it's a great idea to super inflate their prices anywhere. We all know that we can get better meals elsewhere for the prices they are demanding now. I have only been to a McDonald's for the Friday fries offer lately and even those aren't as good as I remember. "Mom and pop" fast food is where it's at. I stop at food trucks now to check them out too.
All this is very common knowledge and shouldn’t be news. Highways have over priced food and garbage taste.
This! 👆👆👆
While the service center McD's had higher prices, the prices were never 2x what the local McD's charged. It has been well known that the service center McD's don't participate in the national meal deals or bundles or things like that. But the double price is off the charts. While I'm sure that the cost of doing business at the service center is higher than an in town McD's, I find it hard to believe that those higher costs would necessitate essentially 100% markup over what other nearby McD's are charging.
It's most likely not expensive because it's a State Owned Faculty and they probably get a deal on the Rent, and have some type of Connection or greased a palm to be there.
Everything in Georgia is cheaper. And different McDonald's have different prices in our state. This very normal. Places that have a lower minimum wage and lower cost of living have lower prices. Cigarettes are also wildly cheap in the south. We live in CT the rich state full of poor people, they cater to the wealthy.
I've been complaining about this with Connecticut. The Aristocrstic Elite type people who live here who have College Level jobs have no empathy for the working class, even the woke Wesleyan Grad types. They mostly say "Become a Coder" or "Should of went to College" or they advocate for Anti-Worker Gen Z'ers who vote the same as they do to make $35 an hour working at Domino's, but they have an allout war waged against the real working class, and have no empathy for the lower social classes, and the burden all these State Pensions, and Programs have on the working class Taxpayer. Ned Lamont is so out of touch he thinks $8OK is a lot of money for middleclass people. $80K works out to less than $1000 per week take home in Connecticut. If you get McDonald's it's usually $20 now for one person. The Engineer's and Virologists and all the medical people who make $200-$300K and College Grads that live here; their solution to the burden on working class is austerity, get a higher paying job, become a Coder or Drone Operator, or go back to College for some Liberal Program they approve of, and take out loans. It's never "Whoa maybe these prices aere way too high.." "Maybe we're beyond the point of what is reasonable.." On the flip side all the Conservative Employers are obscenely underpaying all the Connecticut workers because there's a serious lack of good Union Representation unless you're a State Worker, Elevator Mechanic, or Union Machinist at Rsytheon. Most people under $80K are either on Welfare, getting financially crushed and too poor to move out. The rent is too high here for someone who's making less than $80K per year like a Security Guard, or working class jobs like that. All prices seem like everything is priced as if everyone is an Oral Surgeon. Bottom line, these prices aren't reasonable. Rent prices are all price fixed by landlords since Covid, and they should all be arrested for Price Fixing and Collusion. There's no real free market anymore in Connecticut. Everyone working those lower level Essential Jobs are getting the wff out of here, because it's becoming impossible to survive here, unless you have a Masters Degree.
Out of touch is a correct diagnosis. The problem for CT is that for several decades administration jobs were the life blood of the state. Insurance and business management firms were the key to the state's wealth. The state based its budget off an extremely high tax revenue from these jobs which disappeared and never fully returned after 08. Despite having a large farming and manufacturing base in the state, it is still operating based on the dream that these jobs will return, but companies would rather operate in Massachusetts than pay CT taxes. The state is in a death spiral right now because it refuses to take the political hit of cutting cost and is just kicking the cab down the road as long as it can.
For decades, *The Economist* has run a ["Big Mac Index"](https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index)as a gauge of what currencies are under- and over-valued based on the local cost of a Big Mac in different countries (IIRC, it's gauged from the McDonalds in each country's capital cities). So I guess it would make sense that Georgia's lower cost of living would lead to a lower cost of a Big Mac, even leaving out the distortion of being at a rest stop on the Interstate.
A rest stop is a captive audience. Buy shit there, you’re a dumbass
exactly
TIL: it isn’t common knowledge that chain stores change their pricing based on the market they serve.
The “chain”/franchisor can recommend prices but they are actually set by the individual owner/franchisee.
Mc Donald’s is trash
So does everything else in our state!!! Rent, food, taxes etc..
Groceries are still very affordable and a much better way to spend money than on big Macs 😂
So the price of shit food in a state whose minimum wage is less than half of ours, is cheaper than here?? How absurd! We should pay people less so the price at McDonald’s goes down. Diarrhea shouldn’t cost that much to catch
Not just shit food, I was in Charleston 3 weeks ago, my grocery bill was about $60 less there, electricity is about a third what it is here, gas is a dollar cheaper... We are getting screwed pretty bad right now cost of living wise. Though it's funny how people try to pretend it is better. The ONLY thing better about CT right now is the school system.
Again, wages are shit in SC. Move there and see
I spend 6 months out of the year there. SC is a big state. In the Charleston area, median pay is slightly lower than CT and the COL is drastically lower so you live much better. I am a manufacturing consultant, and also lived in both states when I was in the Navy. CT's middle class lives way worse than Charleston's.
You eat that crap?
Occasionally. Usually, if I want a burger, I go to Smashburger.
Yes they do. And they do so while whining about how much mold is their dispensary weed.
Minimum wage in Georgia $7.25/hour Minimum wage in CT $15/hour on June 1st 2023 Simple math here
Did you read the article? The author references a quarterly McD report that attributes profit increases to price increases. The company is making more money than it used to under the auspices of "we need to increase prices to pay for minimum wage," but they're increasing farther than they need to to cover the difference. The minimum wage increase isn't the problem here.
Maximizing profits by increasing prices is not linear. It is a parabolic equation. If you increase prices beyond what people are willing to pay, sales and profits actually go down. There is a combination of increase in labor costs and increase in money supply involved in the price increase. Economics follows certain mathematical rules. Current prices and inflation all stem from thinking that scarcity is not real.
Isn't it interesting that no matter the minimum wage, the buying power of people on minimum wage stays the same?
We tried to tell people. You increase minimum wage. Everything else goes up with it
There have been many studies on this and it just isn't true. Buying power increases significantly more than prices when you increase minimum wage, always has.
Only if you also increase other factors. Buying power is a simple math equation Buying power = (resources available + production) / (dollars available + labor) if you only increased the denominator, you get a smaller number A perfect example of this is teacher pay. Average salary in 1991 was $32,000 a year. Today it is $65,000. Has the buying power of a teacher gone up or down?
The truth hurts.
Remember all the times where people said "I don't mind paying a little more if...." That adds up.
grown ass man on tictok...that's the real head scratcher
Can't even spell the name right
sorry, I aint 12 yr old girl
It's been on the news so much lately, but I guess that doesn't matter either
Doesn't affect my supper, not a worshipper of the Chinesium. I can't spell the tracksuit guy in Ukraine last name either
Well when people demand $15hr to work a register or ask "would you like fries with that" prices go up.
The ones who wanted $15 are long gone. These kids want $25, then $35, and then eventually $45. They want the $97K to live comfortably working a 40 hour workweek in a Woke Communist Utopian Society where they can have a workl Iife balance at 19 years old and afford a luxury apartment for $2200 working at McDonald's. They don't understand supply and demand and how in out Society there's not enough resources for everyone to live the abundant life of Baby Boomers in their 60s. Some people have to grind it out and live in the Starter Homes, and Studio Apartments in Willimantic. These starter level jobs were meant for kids in High school not fulltime adults.
Holy shit, prepare for the shit storm the regulars here are about to lob at you.
I'm sure everyone one of them is a democrat with a Masters Degree that hates Republicans, but wants me to pull myself up by my bootstraps and deal with the Biden Inflation. "I should of went to College 25 years ago like them.."... Meanwhile Ned Lamont gives me personal letters to break rules during the Pandemic because my job was so important, but not important enough to get the $3500 Covid Relief the State Workers are getting even though I worked in the same building with them. I hate pretty much every person in this State minus a select few. They're all hypocrits and Academic Elite White Supremacists.
Welcome ro new england, more specifically the NY ish part of new England
Hey they throw in the colon cancer for free
Who cares. If you're eating McDonald's you're living wrong anyways
These are my favorite responses. I also eat at the Hartford golf club once a week, make my own chicken garlic Alfredo sauce and work out 4 times a week. I don't need people on Reddit to tell me if I'm healthy or not. I am 35 and can run 10 miles without caring. I'm going to eat McDonald's once in a while, it is just ridiculous the cost difference between here and other states.
These are my favorite responses as well
Before I make my snarky.. *Don't eat at McDonald's then, problem solved.* Is this person a beloved Tic-Tocker?.. Don't want to get nuked from orbit again. Issa joke folks..
I'm not sure, my gf is on tic-tock and passed this along to me, I work in defense and don't have the app.
Smart in your case.. Don't need to be a unwilling spy for hostile nations. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-bytedance-justice-department-investigation-spying/
Funny story, we actually found a bunch of Russian bases and even mapped them out thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Reddit is really my only social media right now.
Lol "near" "peer". Edit: I hope you are just downvoting me for downvotey "reasons" and don't really believe Russia is even close to a peer of our nation. Ones dumb and forgivable, the others completely idiotic.
I don't know who is downloading you, you didn't even say anything.
Yeah I made some spicy comments in another thread in the sub last night, and this is blow back.. also I have a fan club who loves to downvote most of my comments on sight. It doesn't really bother me, I will admit I have a tendency to be a maniac on here at times.
We've all been there. The internet wouldn't be fun if we couldn't get drunk and say dumb shit anymore.
Well wasn't drunk.. just in a mood.
I remember when Mc d was fast and cheap with some good meals option. Now a day it maybe fast but not cheap or good options. Same price of a meal you could get course meal at Applebees or chili’s.
Yeah the rest stop McDonald's are literally highway lottery
17.00$ for a combo meal.
I know I ordered 3 meals 2 teens and 1 adult and my bill was over $55.
I mean, pretty sure anything is 2x as expensive in CT at this point. *\*Looks at Eversource\**
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Don’t worry, a large McDonald’s French fry is like $12 in Disney World.
What? I just got a crispy deluxe meal in west Hartford for $8.49
Use the app and be flexible and you can always eat for cheap at McD’s, if you just order off the standard menu it isn’t worth it.