Makeover Ensures McDonald's Success During Downturn
New York Times: "As of November, the latest data available, the company had delivered 55 consecutive months of increases in global same-store sales. During a year when the stock market lost a third of its value—its worst performance since the Great Depression—shares of McDonald’s gained nearly 6 percent, making the company one of only two in the Dow Jones industrial average whose share price rose in 2008. (The other was Wal-Mart.)"
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4 Comments:
Amen for the dollar menu. Lord knows it's all I can afford these days...
juliebugsmama at 11:40AM on 01/12/09
Except they took chicken mcnuggets off! One more reason to go to Wendy's.
emgroff at 12:25PM on 01/12/09
i wouldnt eat mcdonalds even if it was free
MrChow at 4:07PM on 01/12/09
I wouldn't eat at McD if you paid me.
sailordave at 6:45PM on 01/12/09