daw1@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS) (07/15/85)
Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. When I bought one of these a week ago [for someone else - don't tell me they're lousy :-)] I got a box of nine nuggets. At the time I figured the commercial meant eleven things were one soda plus one fries plus 9 nuggets. That is, the special was for a total of eleven items of whatever. So what you see is what you get; but what you hear is NOT what you get. I think it's a rip off. Anyone care to comment? Doug Williams AT&T Bell Labs Reading, PA mhuxt!rduxb!daw1
mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) (07/16/85)
> Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You > get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial > says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell > that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. > > So what you see is what you get; but what you hear is NOT > what you get. > > I think it's a rip off. Anyone care to comment? > Doug Williams I think it's pretty expensive for greasy garbage! Mike Clifford
heneghan@ihu1m.UUCP (Joe Heneghan) (07/16/85)
My guess is that someone f@#%cked up their math. They probably started with 11 octal and ended up with decimal 9. Time to buy a programmers calculator!
desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) (07/17/85)
> Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You > get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial > says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell > that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. > > Doug Williams Ours had 11 nuggets. Maybe they just use the 9-nugget boxes? marie
bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty) (07/17/85)
> > Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You > > get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial > > says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell > > that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. > > > > Doug Williams > > Ours had 11 nuggets. Maybe they just use the 9-nugget boxes? > > marie Well, it makes more sense to use the 9-nugget boxes. I mean, they already have them available. Just think of the savings passed on to the customer because they didn't design 11-nugget boxes (:-)). -- Brian C. Carty AT&T Bell Laboratories Piscataway, NJ
brett@ucla-cs.UUCP (07/21/85)
> > > Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You > get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial > says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell > that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. > > When I bought one of these a week ago [for someone else - don't > tell me they're lousy :-)] I got a box of nine nuggets. They made a mistake. Although they are using the nine-box, it contains 11. They stuff them in a separate area so they give them only to the people who have bought a value pack. -- Brett Fleisch University of California Los Angeles 3804-f Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90024 Phone: (213) 825-2756, (213) 474-5317 brett@ucla-cs.ARPA or soon to be: brett@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...sdcrdcf, ihnp4, trwspp, ucbvax}!ucla-cs!brett -------------------------------------------------------------------------
bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty) (07/24/85)
To all the Chicken Mc Nugget lovers out there:
It brings me great sadness to report that Mc Donald's Value Pack is no
more. I tried to order one yesterday and was told that they were no
longer making them. I guess that means that they ran out of Value Pack
boxes and extra-large fry boxes since the offer was good "while supplies
lasted." (I doubt they ran out of soda, chicken, or fries.)
--
Brian C. Carty AT&T Bell Laboratories - Piscataway, NJ
..!{ihnp4,allegra}!whuts!bccartyscott@bunker.UUCP (Scott Hawley) (07/24/85)
> > > Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You > > > get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial > > > says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell > > > that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. > > > > > > Doug Williams > > > > Ours had 11 nuggets. Maybe they just use the 9-nugget boxes? > > > > marie > > Well, it makes more sense to use the 9-nugget boxes. I mean, they > already have them available. Just think of the savings passed on to the > customer because they didn't design 11-nugget boxes (:-)). > -- > Brian C. Carty > AT&T Bell Laboratories > Piscataway, NJ If you look at the aid you can see that it is a 9 nugget box inside the value pack. The top of the 9 shows.
mkg@lzwi.UUCP (M.GOSNELL) (07/24/85)
The advertised price of the value pack is $3.85. At our local McDonalds, the individual prices of similar items (9 piece McNuggets, large soft drink, and large fries) total $3.28. They're charging you 28.5 cents each for the two extra McNuggets as compared to 20 cents each in the 9 piece serving. The "value" in the name doesn't apply to the consumer but to the corporation. Marsh Gosnell ATTIS Lincroft, NJ lzma!mkg
bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty) (07/24/85)
> The advertised price of the value pack is $3.85. At our local > McDonalds, the individual prices of similar items (9 piece McNuggets, > large soft drink, and large fries) total $3.28. They're charging > you 28.5 cents each for the two extra McNuggets as compared to > 20 cents each in the 9 piece serving. > > The "value" in the name doesn't apply to the consumer but to the > corporation. > Marsh Gosnell ATTIS Lincroft, NJ lzma!mkg But there are (were) more fries (noticeably more) in the Value Pack. I'm not sure just how many, but certainly that must bring the McNugget price down somewhat. -- Brian C. Carty AT&T Bell Laboratories - Piscataway, NJ ..!{ihnp4,allegra}!whuts!bccarty
man@bocar.UUCP (M Nevar) (07/25/85)
< The advertised price of the value pack is $3.85. At our local < McDonalds, the individual prices of similar items (9 piece McNuggets, < large soft drink, and large fries) total $3.28. They're charging < you 28.5 cents each for the two extra McNuggets as compared to < 20 cents each in the 9 piece serving. From the adds I've seen on television and in McDonalds, the fries and Coke are super-large size. If you don't like Coke, you can substitute a "regular" large-sized soft drink. Mark Nevar
rcm84@ihlpm.UUCP (randall moline) (07/25/85)
> The advertised price of the value pack is $3.85. At our local > McDonalds, the individual prices of similar items (9 piece McNuggets, > large soft drink, and large fries) total $3.28. They're charging > you 28.5 cents each for the two extra McNuggets as compared to > 20 cents each in the 9 piece serving. > > The "value" in the name doesn't apply to the consumer but to the > corporation. > Marsh Gosnell ATTIS Lincroft, NJ lzma!mkg *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** The advertised price in my area is $3.49. Also, you are supposedly getting a larger order of fries than the normal large size. If this is the case, as I believe it to be, then you are getting a slight "value". Randy Moline ATTT Naperville, IL ihlpm!rcm84
david@tekig5.UUCP (David Hayes) (07/30/85)
Value Pack?? If I were a McDonalds owner and I wanted to make more money, I would try to increase sales of my highest margin product. So if I threw in a few more fries for .20 to .30 cents at my cost of .01 per trainload, I'd do OK. Remember, New and Improved means I had to change things because I wans't making enough money the old way....
terryl@tekcrl.UUCP (07/31/85)
>Value Pack?? >If I were a McDonalds owner and I wanted to make more money, >I would try to increase sales of my highest margin product. >So if I threw in a few more fries for .20 to .30 cents >at my cost of .01 per trainload, I'd do OK. How true, how true!!!! When I worked at a McDonald's when I was in high school "....in a galaxy long, long ago, and far, far away", fries and soft drinks were pure profit items. Not quite .01 per trainload, but pretty close!!! >Remember, New and Improved means I had to change things >because I wans't making enough money the old way.... `Nuff said!!!!!
ccs009@ucdavis.UUCP (it) (08/22/85)
> Mc Donalds has this so-called value pack offer now. You > get a soda, fries and chicken nuggets. The voice on the commercial > says distinctly 11 nuggets. But if you look closely you can tell > that the box being used for the nuggets has a 9 printed on it. ^^^^^^^^^ > So what you see is what you get; but what you hear is NOT > what you get. > > I think it's a rip off. Anyone care to comment? > Doug Williams The actual deal is this: You get 11 nuggets ( in a nine nugget box ) An EXTRA large fries, and A large coke for 3.69 The boxes in my area ( central CA ) are printed with a small extra banner that states you get 11 nuggets, while the rest of the box says 9. As to whether it is a rip off or not well, one man's garbage is another's gourmet........ ( 3.69 is a little steep for parts of a chicken but parts is parts... :-) D.M.