tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post8544812242750320365..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: America's Worst Restaurant Chain Utterly Clueless About How to Reverse Declining SalesBill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-77650500567552719042015-03-16T00:05:59.788-04:002015-03-16T00:05:59.788-04:00Wondering how they got the 'golden arches'...Wondering how they got the 'golden arches' tag. Could as easily have been the 'golden ampersand' I'm guessing. I need to get a trademark on that.centralscrewtinizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404913280254786506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-62365005913748824822015-03-13T07:08:59.599-04:002015-03-13T07:08:59.599-04:00Like the oil industry and many others, McD's i...Like the oil industry and many others, McD's is on its way out for many reasons - competition, shrinking customer base (your economic point is spot on), lack of variety, change in diet, nutrition and health reasons, etc. We're undergoing an economic collapse based on ecological damage and destruction, resource scarcity, lack of political will to change, pollution, and too many other interacting factors to list in a comment. Corporations, banks, energy companies and governments will all become victims before too long. Climate change is out of our control now (because we didn't heed the warnings way back when we could have done something about it).<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-66617099069924044872015-03-11T12:12:47.950-04:002015-03-11T12:12:47.950-04:00Nah, no reporter is going to ask one of his corpor...Nah, no reporter is going to ask one of his corporate masters to clarify a statement. That's Journo 101. It would mean the reporter is tacitly admitting that his master's nonsensical corporate pseudo-jargon is, well, nonsensical corporate pseudo-jargon.<br /><br />Otherwise, McD's hit saturation level in most markets a couple years ago. Later this year they'll close a few hundred stores, call it "right sizing" (or some such bullshit) and go back to being the world's #1 purveyor of gastronomic misery and low wage / high stress jobs.AlanSmitheenoreply@blogger.com