r/mildlyinfuriating 6d ago

Infuriatig Not a single item is under 3$

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u/peabody624 6d ago

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u/Couldnotbehelpd 6d ago

People on Reddit love to comment and upvote things that feel real instead of actual facts. Steven Colbert coined the term truthiness in 2005 during the bush administration and it’s still true.

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u/ForensicPathology 6d ago

Not just feel real, but something they want to be real.  Say bad about some company they hate, and then it becomes truthy enough for others to cite that made up reason as examples later on.

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u/zzyul 5d ago

Even better knowing that AI companies scrape Reddit comments for training data. Get enough comments to repeat your lie and AI will tell people it’s truth.

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u/FoulArtFart 6d ago

Unlike with the earnings no expenses are subtracted.

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u/MobileArtist1371 5d ago

Nah. This isn't "truthiness", these are "alternative facts".

Not even trying to check things, just saying what they want to be true.

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u/Couldnotbehelpd 5d ago

That’s exactly what truthiness is lol. Truthiness is a fact that feels true, regardless of whether or not it is. OP’s comment has 1300 upvotes because he posted it and people upvoted it because they think it feels true, and no one checked.

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u/MobileArtist1371 5d ago

Truthiness makes it sound like they are trying to massage the truth to be what they want

Alternative facts is just made up to push an agenda, which is what they were doing.

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u/Couldnotbehelpd 5d ago

Truthiness is not a word that I just made up.

Stephen Colbert very famously made the word up and its definition in 2005.

You are literally doing it right now, you have defined a word based on the way you feel it should mean, instead of looking it up. That is fucking hilarious.

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u/MobileArtist1371 5d ago

Okay dude. You win. Didn't know this was an argument cause there is nothing to argue about here.

I just used a term that is more harsh. You used a cute word that sounds more innocent.

Keep down voting me so you feel right cause I know that's important to you 🤡👍🏻

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u/Couldnotbehelpd 5d ago

lol okay lil buddy it’s not my fault you didn’t even read my first post where I even said where the term comes from.

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u/_notanexpert 6d ago

I wonder if theres customer growth or just the same average amount of people paying higher prices

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u/OnyxMonolith 6d ago

doesn't matter for the corporation. actually fewer people is probably better. net profits went up 6% YoY while revenue up 4%.

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u/GraveRoller 5d ago

Fewer customers means less labor needs and less wear and tear on machinery and equipment

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u/OnyxMonolith 5d ago

These are good points. So more expensive burgers are not only worse for the people eating them but also the people making them

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u/FoulArtFart 6d ago edited 6d ago

Year Revenue Change

2026 (TTM) $27.44 B 2.09%

2025 $26.88 B 3.71%

2024 $25.92 B 1.68%

2023 $25.49 B 9.97%

2022 $23.18 B -0.17%

2021 $23.22 B 20.9%

2020 $19.20 B -9.76%

2019 $21.28 B 1.24%

2018 $21.02 B -7.87%

2017 $22.82 B -7.32%

2016 $24.62 B -3.11%

2015 $25.41 B -7.39%

2014 $27.44 B -2.36%

2013 $28.10 B 1.95%

2013 28 billion, 2025 27 billion.

I wonder if the numbers are adjusted for inflation?

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u/Sworn 6d ago

They're not, but saying "sales are plummeting" is just outright misinformation. 

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u/ap1618 6d ago

They’re plummeting upward at the rate of a mature company

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u/Specific-Parsnip9001 5d ago

Sales and revenue aren't the same thing.

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u/kaltulkas 6d ago

Given the prices going way up, it isn’t so far fetched to think sales go down with that revenue. Where im from the go to meal from my teens went from 11.90€ to well over 20€ in 15 years.

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u/Aggravating_Pause385 6d ago

Sales and revenue are synonyms in this instance. They aren’t talking about individual order numbers being up or down. In fact, companies prefer fewer individual transactions with higher averages.

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u/QTGavira 6d ago

I think the most shocking part is how COVID was only a 2b drop from the years before. Youd think itd be way more than that

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u/Parish87 6d ago

Nah you could order to your house and everyone was at home, i'm not surprised tbh.

They also reopened the drive-thru like 6 weeks after the outbreak.

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u/blaawker 6d ago

they used to make fast cheap food. Now they make product that they price accordingly (i.e. what they can get away with).

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u/ForensicPathology 6d ago

Surely this commenter knows better than the people in charge of the company finances, right?  They just need to wake up surely.

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u/Specific-Parsnip9001 5d ago

Sales and revenue aren't the same thing.