• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I can’t read the article because of the paywall and don’t care enough to circumvent it or look into it more, so I don’t know if they accounted for it, but prices actually vary from one McDonald’s location to another, a big Mac doesn’t cost the same around the country.

    I haven’t done an exhaustive comparison, again I don’t care that much, but I was curious enough to check online ordering at the only McDonalds that’s open around me right now (it’s 1 AM and almost nothing is 24/7 around here since the pandemic, which is a real bummer for night shifters like me, but I digress)

    A large big Mac meal from there would cost me 10.39, a medium meal 9.49 (I guess small doesn’t exist anymore because those are the only 2 options)

    I don’t live in a super expensive are, but it’s not the cheapest either, so I suspect probably around that $10 mark for a big Mac meal is probably a more realistic average.

    I have a feeling they’re cherry picking that $18 big Mac from a swanky neighborhood in NYC or someth.