The Price of a Big Mac...

Dariusz Rosati has presented the ultimate proof of price-gouging as he boasted on Twitter with a receipt from McDonald’s. The former foreign minister released his receipt from a McDonald’s restaurant. He annotated the photo with the comment that the price of a Big Mac has increased by 25 percent since 2016. The former foreign minister wanted to show in this way how much inflation has increased in Poland in a short period of time.

Hamburgers of the popular restaurant chain have become in recent days an argument of the opposition in the discussion on inflation of the state of the country’s finances. Krzysztof Brejza from KO also compared the prices of Big Mac. The last price increase in McDonald’s took place in April. Then Big Mac became 50 cents more expensive.

The price increase is a fact. So is inflation. Prices in June were on average 4.4 percent higher than a year earlier. Inflation in Poland is one of the highest in the EU. Even so, the June inflation is slightly lower than that forecast by economists. Analysts were betting that it would be even 4.6 percent.

After the last hike in McDonald’s money.pl calculated that although the prices of hamburgers skyrocketed, at the same time the purchasing power increased and Poles with the lowest national income are able to buy many more burgers at McDonald’s.

In 2002 a person earning the lowest national income could buy himself 30 Big Macs with a Happy Meal set. In 2021 he can already afford 60 such orders.

(money.pl)