McDonalds, helping or price gouging?

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McDonalds, helping or price gouging?

By: hurtzSubscribe Channel: News Location: Marion, IA Sunday, Jun 15 , 08 at 5:48 PM

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flood water help conserve price gouging taking advantage of community in need
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In an effort to conserver water, the Marion McDonalds is only serving drinks in cans. What the fail to tell you is you will be charged the same price. For example, I paid $1.29 for a semi-cold 12oz can of pop, and they charged me $1.79 for 2 12 oz cans of Sprite for my kids. And in case your wondering, no, the proceeds of their massive markup will not be donated to flood victims, I called and asked.

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Missing the point says ... on Wednesday, Jun 25 at 8:53 AM

Point is you pay for 32oz's and get 12.

BH says ... on Monday, Jun 23 at 10:01 PM

Anonymous is correct. The price for a fountain soda far less than a can of soda. Fountain drinks cost on the order of cents per cup vs more than $.25/can. Why do you think they sell the soda syrup by the gallon and we never see cans in restaurants?

brad t says ... on Friday, Jun 20 at 4:02 PM

well its mcdonalds, there the ones that charge you $.15 per sauce packet when they get them for $.2 a pice. then they limit what you can have after 11pm to the food that is more expensive

Simple Math says ... on Friday, Jun 20 at 7:34 AM

Anonymous - you are incorrect. Lets say they send Bob across the street to the convenience store to pick up some cases of pop. A 24 pack of Coke runs $5.99 deposit tax, roughly $7.55, bringing the cost per can to .32, almost $1 profit per can.

Anonymous says ... on Wednesday, Jun 18 at 12:25 PM

Their cost for a can of pop is much larger than it is for fountian pop so they are not making more profit from this.

Matt says ... on Wednesday, Jun 18 at 4:23 AM

Pretty typical..I wonder if this is a franchise or national chain. Coming from mcyd's who has helped my family with the ronald mcdonald house when i was very ill, it would surprise me if this was the national chain.

Anonymous says ... on Tuesday, Jun 17 at 3:25 PM

what are you complaining about..?> they are helping conserve on water, that is what we are all supose to do.. I was impressed that they were taking on this and serving it in a can instead of using foutain pop that uses water and also ice..

lorrie says ... on Tuesday, Jun 17 at 7:07 AM

shame on you, mcdonalds

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