• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Local drive-through coffee places here are cheaper than Starbucks and they don’t get the deals that a huge corporation that Starbucks has, meaning their profit margins are a lot lower.

    This has all been about price gouging.

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      6 months ago

      Absolutely. There’s a nice sit-down restaurant close to where I work. I go there and get a much better meal for less than I would pay at the shitty McDonald’s half a mile away.

      Meanwhile, McDonald’s: Where did everybody go? IS THIS DEFLATION!?

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        6 months ago

        Same for my family. We just stopped going to fast food at all and eat at much better restaurants since it’s costs the same or nearly so. They screwed themselves hard I think.

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        6 months ago

        Well for a while, local places were able to rise their prices as well to keep up with Starbucks, but now they’ve realized that they don’t need to.