Wendy's 5pc nuggets are now $1.19 (%20 increase)

McDonalds Double Cheeseburgers are also now $1.19 (%20 increase)

The Wendy's double stack has only one slice of cheese (%50 less than normal double cheesburgers)

The new McDonalds McDouble also is also lacking the standard amount of cheese (%50 less)

Hopefully Taco bell can hold prices with their value menu, however I wish they would reduce the Grande Combo price back to the previous $7.99 price, and allow the Mexican pizza to be added for $2.00 again.

Is this going to continue to spiral out of control until no one can afford to eat? If we keep raising price and cutting cheese there will not be many options left for budget diners.

12/10/2008 10:08:37 PM

the solution is to eat better food

but seriously, is this the result of commodity inflation or the need to recoup business lost to people who are saving money by not eating out? i don't follow commodity prices.

[Edited on December 10, 2008 at 10:14 PM. Reason : .]

12/10/2008 10:09:48 PM

Cook out trays were recently raised to a price of $4.25, from a previous value of $3.99.

12/10/2008 10:12:29 PM

cici's use to be like what, 2.99 or some shit?

12/10/2008 10:15:18 PM

Oddly enough consumer prices as a whole have fallen.

12/10/2008 10:16:11 PM

even stranger, all the price increases sited by the OP have been in the past month or so. The same period in which gas prices have fallen dramatically. Yet, over the summer while gas prices were skyrocketing these prices didn't change!

12/10/2008 10:21:49 PM

so it's...a conspiracy

get salisburyboy out of confinment

12/10/2008 10:25:25 PM

fat tax

sorry about the workers

and the farmers

and the people who deliver the food

and the marketing firms who push it

and the sheer convenience

i would also like to thank the post ww2 sprawl that made this day possible

but now, please allow me to lament the notion i can't get shit for cheap

12/10/2008 11:01:26 PM

know how much youd pay per meal if you bought a buncha seeds and grew your own stuff? I've always wanted to try that but my yard always gets too muddy.

12/11/2008 12:08:55 AM

it should

you would have a hard time growing our food in some suburban areas

but that's cool

it looks prettier with mcdonald's wrappers in your yarn anyhow

12/11/2008 12:22:30 AM

Plant a hamburger tree, it's the perfect thing for a hungry bachelor with minimal yard space.

12/11/2008 12:31:11 AM

that's cute, but the cheese is cheaper than the hamburger in the long run

sort of

12/11/2008 12:35:38 AM

Really I'm kind of on a cheap food revolt because of what passes for "cheap food" at Taco Bell these days. Cheese on a tortilla? No beans? What the crap is this?

12/11/2008 1:14:45 AM

I blame cheese

12/11/2008 2:21:28 AM

Remember when the government gave away a trillion dollars? Yeah... you're gonna paying for that through inflation. And then you're gonna be paying for it again through taxes at some point. Enjoy!

12/11/2008 6:19:55 AM

exactly.

12/11/2008 6:54:11 AM

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"even stranger, all the price increases sited by the OP have been in the past month or so. The same period in which gas prices have fallen dramatically. Yet, over the summer while gas prices were skyrocketing these prices didn't change! "

The high gas prices have finally trickled down to the end product.

Anyway. I've heard that they have been taking losses on their dollar menu items for a long time now. They make up for the loss on their drink markups. Maybe more people are just ordering water to save money, or maybe they just want to reduce the margin of loss on their dollar menu items or even turn a small profit on them.

I'm more concerned with the rise in price of real food. Everything in the grocery store has gone up anywhere from 5- 40%. Higher distribution cost was cited as the reason for the increase and that makes sense, but something tells me that the price of food is going to remain high despite the relatively cheap price of fuel. They might be reluctant to lower the price because they think gas will just be sitting at $3.50/g come memorial day anyway, it will either never come down, or come down very slowly as competitors in the industry start to price compete again. What you should take out of all of this is that I don't know anything.

12/11/2008 7:54:23 AM

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"cutting cheese"

had me lawl'n

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"or come down very slowly as competitors in the industry start to price compete again. "

This is what is likely to transpire. Mostly because with food they are hesitant to raise there prices at all because someone can go pick up a different product that is very very similar so they have to be very cost competitive. But no one will begin price competition until they're budgets are healthy enough to do so. Food is also likely to stay high because we'll be hit with heavy inflation following this deflationary period.

12/11/2008 10:00:42 AM

Wait, I thought we were being hit with deflation after a heavy inflationary period.

And just because my brain shorted out long ago... I'd love to see the cost of higher education and health care bubbles burst, just like the tech industry, housing, gas, etc. That stuff has gone up like 400% in the past decade.

12/11/2008 10:21:42 AM

i think it's a cheese conspiracy

12/11/2008 10:34:30 AM

higher education and health care are not a bubble, they are government cartels. As such, their high prices will remain as long as the government protects them, just as the government protected high airline fares and trucking rates prior to the 1980s.

12/11/2008 11:06:34 AM

Praise Cheesus

12/11/2008 9:11:35 PM

I hadn't thought about this before, but I just went vegetarian about three weeks ago. It wouldn't surprise me if the rising cost of food didn't factor in that decision unconsciously. I thought I just really, really cared about the animals.

12/12/2008 2:34:54 AM

Yeah, prices went up when oil did, and when oil went back down the merchants seemed to... forget to readjust.

12/12/2008 9:15:01 AM

The cleaning lady at work was bitching this morning because her McDonalds gravy biscuit went up from $1.99 to $2.49.

12/12/2008 9:35:40 AM

I WENT FROM DOLLAR MENUAIRE TO DOLLAR TWENTY NINE MENUAIRE

12/12/2008 9:49:49 AM

OHZZ KNOWZ my McFat burgers and heart attack greasy fries cost $.30 more cents :-( :-(

fast food epitomizes the problems of our country and why our economy is in the shitter

12/12/2008 8:58:58 PM

sure does come in handy though sometimes with a proper diet

12/12/2008 9:24:13 PM

Try buying gluten free items and then you can complain about food prices.

12/12/2008 9:24:29 PM

12/12/2008 9:43:38 PM

actually i was at the store today and the regular price of eggs are over $3.00 a dozen -- a gallon of milk is over $4.00 a gallon

and this isnt the hippy trippy organic, free range shit. this is the bulk-produced, PETA-haiting store brand stuff

i guess i havent bought groceries in about a month (my wife usually does) ... but when the fuck did this happen? is it like this everywhere?

12/13/2008 11:48:44 PM

you got robbed nga

3 dollar bucks for a dozen eggs?

12/13/2008 11:52:34 PM

well, i paid $2.29, because QFC had a "sale" for card-members.

12/14/2008 12:20:16 AM

dude omf

has anyone seen a totinos pizza lately???

the cheese dont even touch when melted

12/14/2008 12:56:38 AM

Teddy Grahams have spiked ridiculously in price.

And while delicious and worthwhile at any price, I'm not looking to take out a second mortgage just to get my mouth around some delicious chocolate graham cracker bears.

12/14/2008 3:15:37 AM

^^Pretty much anything prepared is ridiculous. You can't get a decent frozen pizza for less than eight bucks.

If you don't like to cook, eating out is practically a better deal than getting prepared stuff from the grocery store. At least restaurants serve criminally large portions of food you can spread out over three or four meals.

12/14/2008 3:42:03 AM

i try to buy groceries at target, cause its cheaper than the grocery store (superfresh is the closest, but sometimes i'll drive over to the shoppers). a fresecetta/other name brand pizza is 5-6 dollars at target, 8-9 dollars at the grocery store. frosted mini wheats/other cereals 3 vs 4 dollars. depending on the product, i'll buy storebrand. i also use coupons. if you can't afford/don't want to buy the sunday paper, go to panera or somewhere and look though the rack of newspapers people have left.

12/14/2008 8:15:54 AM

alexander county ftw!


we are poor yo!

12/14/2008 8:18:12 AM

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"fat tax "

stop eating all that bullshit

12/14/2008 8:21:48 AM

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" Rest assured, the Dollar Menu is still at McDonald’s® and your favorite Double Cheeseburger is here to stay! Starting on December 1st, you will find the Double Cheeseburger on our regular menu at a slightly higher price than a dollar, but still at a good value. But don’t worry, we have a $1 burger alternative for you! When you visit us in December, also look for our latest addition to the Dollar Menu – the new McDouble® Burger. It’s pretty much the same as the Double Cheeseburger, just with one less slice of cheese. Providing you with quality menu items at a good value is very important to us and we understand how important it is to you - especially these days. That’s why you can depend on us to give you value across our entire menu, including on our Dollar Menu. We hope you'll continue to count on McDonald's for the everyday value and convenience you’ve come to expect from us. We really appreciate you and your business. We know you have many places to choose from. Thanks for choosing us. "

12/14/2008 8:55:12 AM

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"Wendy's 5pc nuggets are now $1.19 (%20 increase) The Wendy's double stack has only one slice of cheese (%50 less than normal double cheesburgers)"

Also, a few years back, Wendy's starting breaking bacon slices in half and serving them as two pieces.

You know that Baconator that came out a while back with 6 slices of bacon?

Uh, uh.

That's just an old school Big Bacon Classic with an extra burger patty.



That being said, fast food is a rip-off, regardless.

12/14/2008 10:03:07 AM

fuck taco bell , they already took the beef and potato burrito off the value menu

12/14/2008 10:04:00 AM

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"Try buying gluten free items and then you can complain about food prices."

Yup, $4 for an 8oz pack of cookies. I don't buy them except for maybe once or twice a year.

12/14/2008 10:13:29 AM

^srsly

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

12/14/2008 10:29:52 AM

Mr. Farmer let me watch your cropssssssss
Mr. Farmer let me water your cropssssssss
Mr. Farmer let me harvest your cropsssssss
I want to have a dream come true
I said a farmer, farmer, farmer
I want to be just like you

12/14/2008 10:39:56 AM

Good thing about super expensive gluten free cookies is that I only buy them once or twice a year.

Bad thing is that most chocolate is gluten free.

12/14/2008 11:46:21 AM

I still maintain that the only reason why gluten free items are more expensive is due to other fad diets piggy backing with it.

12/15/2008 12:47:12 PM

Nah, the ingredients are more expensive and the small specialty companies that make them don't have the volume of sales to have similar prices to regular grocery store food.

I have a bunch of rice chex now. Gluten free and $1.67 a box at Target (normally close to $3, don't know when the sale ends), plus a $1 off 2 coupon. Not bad. I was getting really tired of fruity and cocoa pebbles.

12/15/2008 1:47:25 PM

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"the solution is to eat better food"

12/15/2008 2:21:56 PM

set em up

12/15/2008 2:24:21 PM