{"id":255879,"date":"2026-08-06T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/flop-alert-mcdonalds-reports-slowing-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:26:11","slug":"flop-alert-mcdonalds-reports-slowing-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/flop-alert-mcdonalds-reports-slowing-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Flop Alert: McDonald&#8217;s Reports Slowing Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1785996000%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262185749%26%26%26youtube%26eyIzOhR3mAQ%3Ac7fe3f7b7238a41380b2bc828001c8b081ad8a59&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=&amp;preview=&amp;moduleid=2185749&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=eyIzOhR3mAQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2185749\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>ABC News&#8217; Elizabeth Schulze reports on McDonald&#8217;s slowing sales as the fast-food giant says its efforts to attract cost-conscious consumers have failed to meet expectations.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s called it a &#8220;challenging consumer environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CEO Chris Kempczinski said on a recent earnings call that its US business \u201cslowed significantly\u201d during the second quarter and that results were \u201cbelow our expectations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A recent AP-NORC poll showed more than half of Americans have cut down in eating out in order to pay for other necessities. Shocking. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/>Earlier this year, it phased out many digital promotions and its \u201cBuy One, Get One for $1\u201d deal in favor of a new McValue menu that sold many items under $3. But the deal was seeing \u201cinconsistent execution\u201d at franchises with only about 65% of restaurants using the \u201crecommended pricing architecture.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn combination, all of these factors negatively impacted visits from some our most loyal customers,\u201d said McDonald\u2019s Chief Financial Officer Ian Borden.<\/p>\n<p>Borden said McDonald\u2019s will roll out new promotions next week in its app to \u201cre-energize our high frequency customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1785996000%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262185750%26%26%26youtube%26NjjRtFTzg2k%3Afbab25e66d03fdfadad6b04da485dde5572946d4&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=NjjRtFTzg2k&amp;noads=&amp;moduleid=2185750&amp;preview=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2185750\"><\/iframe><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eyIzOhR3mAQ?si=D6mbO6EW8JTvrAie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/consumer\/mcdonalds-sales-struggle-value-meals-rcna590683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NjjRtFTzg2k?si=ixulV57G3ZD93hGV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132685598.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News&#8217; Elizabeth Schulze reports on McDonald&#8217;s slowing sales as the fast-food giant says its efforts to attract cost-conscious consumers have failed to meet expectations. McDonald&#8217;s called it a &#8220;challenging consumer environment.&#8221; CEO Chris Kempczinski said on a recent earnings call that its US business \u201cslowed significantly\u201d during the second quarter and that results were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}