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04-09-2009, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Everyone wants to whine about Fender's price increase....
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It's funny to see the weekly tirades and rages against Fender in the basses forum (Oh, my gawd! Fender raised their prices! How dare they!??!). Or maybe it's not funny. Truth be told, it gets old after about seven hundred and twenty six threads so today I'm going to rant about something else that's gone way up in price: Wendy's!
I'm somewhat a creature of habit in that I tend to order the same one or two things at the fast food places I frequent. As such, it's fairly easy to notice when the prices go up as they did today. The franchise here in town hasn't even had time to update their signage after this last increase.
Late last summer this particular meal cost me seven dollars and change. Around October it went up to $8.16. Last week it was still $9.27 and today it's $10.23. My lousy 3% cost of living raise can't keep up! Not that I'm complaining.....My job is pretty secure unless I do something stupid, and I feel for those who have been laid off or otherwise dismissed in this economy.
Whenever I go to Wendy's I pick up a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger for my dog as a treat. He loves them. But that item alone went up 35% just since last weekend.
It's not just Fender people! Get used to it....
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis  Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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04-09-2009, 04:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | We get the shock every few years when we buy another vehicle. |
04-09-2009, 04:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Very true. My mom found the paperwork for a brand new VW Rabbit she bought back in '77. Delivered, and well optioned for the time, it cost her less than $3500.
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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04-09-2009, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by rustynuts Very true. My mom found the paperwork for a brand new VW Rabbit she bought back in '77. Delivered, and well optioned for the time, it cost her less than $3500. | My grandpa bought his first car for 100 bones just for the rims and tires back in '48-ish. Those are the poeple I feel bad for. He has seen everything. Pop/soda was a nickel, and he got it once a year. Now its a buck a bottle, and everyone drinks it all day long.
Lets just hope the whole "Its all a cycle" theory is correct.
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04-09-2009, 09:30 PM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | I think the real shocking aspect of this is that someone actually eats Wendys! 
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04-09-2009, 10:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | LOL hahahaah
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04-09-2009, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Better than McDonald's. Not much, though.
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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04-09-2009, 10:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | actually, i was just laughing at eric's post cause it was funny, but i have to agree, wendy's beats mcdonalds any day.. chili? baked potato? decent salads? WIN
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04-09-2009, 10:43 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Wendys>Mickey D's. |
04-09-2009, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | In -N- Out> The rest of that fast food crap you're eating.
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04-09-2009, 11:14 PM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | No In and Out here. But there are many other non chain hole in the walls here that are quite good, and definitely much better than wendys or mickey d's. |
04-10-2009, 01:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | Joe, you've got about 6 days to come drink and party with me while I'm still relatively in the same time zone.
Beers, burgers, biotches, and biotechnology! What more could a man ask for?
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04-10-2009, 01:29 AM
|  | curiously looking back at what once was beautiful | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oregon | | No whining here - I always buy used!
Doesn't work so well with food, though.
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04-10-2009, 01:32 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | In n out>wendy's>carls Jr.>mc.donalds |
04-10-2009, 01:32 AM
|  | Some carrots are humiliated publicly | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | Fender knows that it can raise it's prices and a sufficient amount of demand for their products will still be present. The economy is bad, Fender needs to increase revenue to compensate. Smart business move... don't know how people can really complain.
But I feel your pain with Wendy's... beats the heck out of Burger King and Micky D's, and it's really the only other fast food burger place around here.
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04-10-2009, 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by NJL actually, i was just laughing at eric's post cause it was funny, but i have to agree, wendy's beats mcdonalds any day.. chili? baked potato? decent salads? WIN |
Arby's beats them both hands down.
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04-10-2009, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by cassanova Arby's beats them both hands down. | "The horror.....the horror..."
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04-10-2009, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Jefenator No whining here - I always buy used!
Doesn't work so well with food, though. | +1, gotta be smart here, people 
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04-10-2009, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Jefenator No whining here - I always buy used!
Doesn't work so well with food, though. | Why not? Second hand food is the best! |
04-10-2009, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by GeneralElectric In -N- Out> The rest of that fast food crap you're eating. | I miss In-N-Outs! I wish we had something even remotely similar here.  Quote:
Originally Posted by joeinsprings No In and Out here. But there are many other non chain hole in the walls here that are quite good, and definitely much better than wendys or mickey d's. | Can't say the same for our little town/city. I guess if I wanted to drive 45 minutes to Louisville I could find plenty of options, but here we have the full array of fast food (Wendy's Mickey D's, BK, Taco Bell, Arby's, Hardee's, KFC, etc.) but little else. Lots of touristy restaurants and such but not much for a quick meal.
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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