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By the way, according to one calculation, Australia is the fourth most expensive country to live in. It would seem to me they are giving inadequate weighting to the cost of cheap wine.
But, by way of cost of living related complaint: I have become unhappy with McDonalds.
A price increase at my local one maybe 6 months ago seems to have made it significantly more expensive, and I have become really tired of the stuffing around with the menu. The higher quality items taken as a meal now are all over $10, even for the "small" version. The price differential between a small meal set and a medium one is tiny (about 50c?) which is typical of the obesity inducing pricing structure of fast food outlets generally, I guess.
The only "good" value there now is in the cruddy end of the menu - "burgers" which are only meat, bacon and sauce, for example.
Sure, they have introduced chicken salads which are better than they were before, but after their introductory lower price, their regular price just doesn't seem particularly good value.
And basically, they just keep moving menu items around too fast. The burger with beetroot, for example, will reappear for a mere 6 weeks (or so it seems) and disappear again. And some items appear once and never re-appear again. (My wife and I both liked a "mexican" burger on a corn bun with avocado some years ago - it has never come back to my knowledge.)
I admired the way the company re-branded itself a good few years ago now with the store upgrades to include the coffee shop sections, but with the main menu being mucked around the way it is, and the expense that now makes it hard to get away with an under $10 meal, it has lost its appeal.
I suspect I can't be the only person feeling this way. I would be curious to see how their profit is going.
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