Great job, everyone! Remember to support locally-owned restaurants over these corrupt US food monopolies.
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McDonald’s has lost over $7 billion in revenue due to a boycott campaign initiated by pro-Palestinians around the globe against Israel’s barbarism in Gaza.
The confirmed losses were highlighted in a recent report by Israeli financial media.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a grassroots initiative, has targeted McDonald’s due to its support for Israel’s campaign of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The current boycott campaign against Israeli goods began in October 2023 after McDonald’s in the occupied Palestinian territories announced it had donated thousands of free meals to Israeli soldiers.
The current boycott campaign against Israeli goods began in October 2023 after McDonald’s in the occupied Palestinian territories announced it had donated thousands of free meals to Israeli soldiers.
That was done by the franchisee in Israel. McDonald’s responded by buying out the franchise and now directly operates all their restaurants in Israel (and is no longer giving out free food to the IOF).
I wonder how much of that lost revenue was from having to buy out 200+ stores.
Of course the fact that stores are still running means McDonald’s is still profiting off of the genocidal settler-colonial state. And now that profit is more direct.
McDonald’s responded by buying out the franchise and now directly operates all their restaurants in Israel (and is no longer giving out free food to the IOF).
I didn’t know that
What does this mean? This is like some divine right of kings shit.
Some lib that thinks boycotts don’t work
I think not understanding how boycotts work is the least of this lib’s worries.
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I’m sure them making themselves too expensive sure didn’t help things.
They made it as easy as possible to boycott!
unironically. i didn’t get my friends to stop going there by talking about israel, i got them to stop by saying “you know for another €2 we could go to the independent place a few streets away where you literally get better and more food”
I feel bad. I forgot this was going on. I remembered I didn’t like McDonald’s anymore but I forgot why
Paying $19 for a small combo where the burger is literally 4 bites and simultaneously 1500 calories while not satiating your hunger at all did it for me.
But now I can say it’s also a boycott, which is good!
for context, McD’s annual revenue is (was) around 25 billion
Damn…almost 1/3rd. lost? That’s pretty significant.
almost too big, it makes me kind of skeptical of these numbers
“Reported by Israeli financial media”
It might be true, but it also might point to a more global recession that nobody is really talking about, less so than Palestinian causes. They have raised their prices so high these days that most people I know go to Taco Bell instead.
Yeah I’m sure the boycott was part of it but part of the reason it was so easy to boycott is I couldn’t afford to eat there anymore anyway
Starbucks didn’t seem to suffer much though
Never underestimate caffeine addiction.
I know McDonald’s has coffee too but it’s always been terrible.
Unlike McDonalds theres not always a great replacement for Starbucks, its expensive just like McDicks, but if you want coffee treats fast you gotta go to starbucks,.
Its still pretty common for people to give starbucks giftcards, I stfg everytime I go to Starbucks its because people send me gift cards for it. I dont like Starbucks.
Sorry sweaty, I NEED my mocha frappe gluck gluck 9000 vente iced 3 pumps of p̴̡̟͛ų̴̻̳̽m̴̢̰͎̽͝p̷͇͝k̸̻̙͋͐i̶̹̠͈̽͛̈́ṋ̸̜͑̂̕ ̷̨̐̈́s̵̪̘͌͌͝p̸͚̣̽̍i̴̻̽̓͆c̴̛̹̈́e̷̝̽́ or else I CAN’T function at pilates. Hehe!
real
hoursupset our treatler isnt the one with puffed up rosy cheeks
Honestly it’s kind of interesting that pro-Palestine people were more likely to eat at mcdonald’s than to go to starbucks. I wonder why.
You’re probably being facetious but as pointed out down below, it’s because white liberals aren’t going to give up their treats while everybody else who can’t afford $8 coffee milkshakes was eating at McDonald’s.
Among the things I’ve read was that apparently Starbucks lost so many customers in Kuwait they shut (all?) their branches there, so there’s that for what it’s worth.
Starbucks was never an official BDS target, so not as many people boycotted it.
Liberals
I started making my own hash browns and my own breakfast sandwiches at home.
I’ll never go back. Get fucked, Ronald!
for real. I am preoccupied with the idea of taking sloppy fast food treats and remaking them at home , and every time I go to the trouble of reverse engineering the thing, it’s a game changer. even just using like OK/cheap ingredients.
they really scrape the barrel with fast food, I swear.
My partner and I have made our own drink stand at home, including different flavors of bulk sugar free syrups, and it’s significantly reduced the amount of teas and coffees we’ve bought while out. Sometimes we’ll even bring our own drinks into a restaurant, unless the owner catches you they typically don’t give a fuck.
I’m even planning on rotating the syrup flavors to more or less match trending seasonal flavors. Next month is V-Day theming so we have strawberry and white chocolate.
Excellent.
Splendid.
Satisfactory even
good… i’ve not gone to a mcdonald’s since the beginning of the Israeli genocide and I never will again.
that’s definitely a few hundred dollars a year they’re not getting from me anymore.
I was curious to see what McDonald’s annual revenue was and got 25 billion in 2023 (potentially only in America?); 7 billion in lost revenue is no small matter.
