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The price didn’t just go up. The product went down.
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This is shrinkflation on steroids.
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The cost increased. The value didn’t.
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Grant here. Shrinkflation is everywhere nowadays. It's actually becoming so common that we seem to just almost be throwing up our hands and accepting it. Well, for the most part.... Because this latest video showing what an absolute rip-off the classic McDonald's sundae has become has people pretty darn heated. Let’s break it down.
A popular X video shows a woman holding her obnoxiously tiny McDonald’s hot fudge sundae. I mean, it's comically small. It looks like something you would give to a four-year-old child, not a grown adult.
And what's worse? It costs $4.
Yeah, $4 for a cup of vanilla soft serve with some crappy "chocolate" sauce on top.
SOURCE
The McDonald’s Hot Fudge Sundae used to only cost 99 cents
American shows what it looks like now, and they have resisted the price to $4
It looks much smaller, they don’t fill it all the way and it no longer comes with a pack of chopped peanuts
But it’s now 4x the price…. pic.twitter.com/h4w89HPXHo
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 30, 2026
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Really, at this point, you're better off heading to the store and buying a tub of vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Honestly, the quality would be better, and you could probably make like 10 sundaes instead of the measly little plastic cup of dairy goo McDonald's is trying to peddle.
This is shrinkflation on a whole other level, and it's an extreme that makes most of us think, "What's the point?"
What is the point nowadays of going out and getting a meal if this is the type of experience you're going to have?
We've reached the point where everything feels like a rip-off, and the only way we can start to move the needle back to normality is just to flat-out stop supporting businesses that are pushing shrinkflation to this extreme.
NOW YOU KNOW
Companies push shrinkflation because they can.
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Have you been to Dunkin Donuts, lately? The donuts were previously frozen, and they reduced the size a few years back and they cost a $1.89 each! WTH
Hash browns used to be 2 for $1 and now are $2.79 each. On the “value” menu they’ll give you a second one for an additional $1….until they take that away. Multi hundred percent increases in not that many years. Well at least their stock holders should be happy. Not bad marking up food like that from what is essentially a real estate company.
I don’t eat processed garbage, so this doesn’t affect me, not even a little.
You virtue signaling losers are WORSE than McDonalds. Cunts like you are the problem.
I started eating all organic, my meat comes from a local ranch, and I prepare all my own food from whole ingredients. I haven’t changed what I eat and I have smaller portions just because I find myself getting fuller faster. I’ve lost 50lbs without doing anything other than that and the weight is still coming off.
It’s not a matter of can you afford to do it, you really can’t afford not to do it.
I could swear their hamburgers shrunk too. I remember as a teen how HUGE those Quarter pounders were. Now when I buy them, they look like regular size hamburgers. Someone should look into this.
The DOJ is making it a TOP priority!
And laser focused.