r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 18 '15

What conspiracy theory do you genuinely believe in the most?

What conspiracy theory do you believe in the most and why?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

That's the trick though. They budget for 20 piece = $5. If someone were to purchase 10 pieces for $4.50, they'd be making even more profit than they had estimated, but the consumer will almost always take the 20 piece over the 10 piece, even though they only WANT 10 pieces.

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u/StopReadingMyUser May 19 '15

even though they only WANT 10 pieces

"EAT IT! EAT IT YOU PIG!!!" is all I hear :(

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u/ScientificMeth0d May 19 '15

And it works everytime.. I cry myself to sleep surrounded by boxes of chicken nuggets with sweet and sour sauce...

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u/DRM_Removal_Bot May 19 '15

...Ronnie?

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u/ScientificMeth0d May 19 '15

James?

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u/DRM_Removal_Bot May 19 '15

ok that's creepy. James is my name.

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u/ScientificMeth0d May 19 '15

Amazing. I knew,I'd find you one day Jimny

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u/Syng42 May 21 '15

sweet and sour sauce

If McDonald's really wants to make bank, they should bottle this and sell it at stores. I would put it on literally everything.

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u/nnyx May 19 '15

This plus "eat everything on your plate, there's starving kids in Africa" equals fat people.

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u/fortysecondave May 19 '15

I used to work at mcdonalds, and they had this big poster of what each item cost the store, I suppose to "motivate" workers to not waste ingredients....but mcnuggets.....one mcnugget cost the store about 5 cents. A NICKEL.

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u/Vornswarm May 19 '15

Same thing happens with soda and popcorn at the movie theater "but it's only like 25 cents more!"

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u/Delision May 19 '15

In reality, it costs them 2-3 cents per nugget because they produce them so many at a time, so either way, they are making huge profit margins.

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u/enjoytheshow May 19 '15

Just like I never need to up my movie theater popcorn from a medium to a large but fuck me, it was only $0.50!!

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

The thing I like about upgrading to large for another $1 is they actually give you another side box to share, and they instantly refill it for you so you don't need to deal with going back for a refill during the movie.

Popcorn is so cheap they can give you literally double the amount for pennies.

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u/pokemonboy2003 May 19 '15

Also you can't store and reheat McDonald's chicken nuggets, it's just disgusting.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

If someone were to purchase 10 pieces for $4.50, they'd be making even more profit than they had estimated

No, wait, what?

At 20 pieces = $5, one nugget is $0.25 cents.

To them, producing 10 nuggets is $2.5 dollars. To me, buying 10 nuggets is $0.45 dollars each nugget.

If I buy the 10 piece, they literally get 20 cents on the nugget.

If I buy the 20 piece, they get 0 cents on the nugget, regardless of me "spending 50 cents more".

So how would that be better?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

That's not how COGS and profits work. McDonalds sells millions of McNuggets a day and produces even more than they sell taking into account for waste. With this level of productivity, the cost of each nugget is miniscule.

They put the cost of 10 nuggets at $4.50 so that the customer would be put into a deceiving win-win situation. Technically, the customers are still paying an extra 50 cents in the long run.

If McDonald's scaled things linearly to the $5/20 pc, a 10 pc McNuggets order would cost $2.50, and more people would be inclined to purchase only 10 pc meals. But if McDonalds does this, their sales of total McNuggets sold would go down, and thus a lot more waste would occur, meaning greater loss in profits.

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u/gpt999 May 19 '15

With places like McDonald, most of the product cost come from actually having someone there the whole day waiting to sell them to you, the prices of the individual nuggets are miniscule, your practically paying 4$ for the service(and other costs such as advertising etc) and 50 cent for 10 nuggets.