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McDonald's Will Serve Up a Song With Your Fries
McDonald's released a casting call to its 1.6 million restaurant workers worldwide for its second biannual Voice of McDonald's contest. The first contest was in 2006 but this year there's a twist — people can vote online for their favorite contestants. They received 3,600 video auditions from singing workers across the globe and have narrowed the pool to 14 finalists that will compete at a McDonald's convention in April.
McDonald's Ad Tries to Put Down Starbucks: Hit or Miss?
In one of its not-so-subtle new commercials, McDonald's uses a conversation between two women to attack the stereotypical Starbucks culture. Does the commercial succeed in making you want to try McDonald's coffee, or does its snotty portrayal of Starbucks rub you the wrong way? McDonald's Ad Tries to Put Down Starbucks: Hit or Miss?What's McDonald's Cooking Up These Days?
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Has the Economy Caused You to Eat More Fast Food?
High on a 4.3 percent boost in July's same-store sales, McDonald's continues to happily hand out its classic burgers and serve up its new line of coffee drinks. The chain credits the increase to cash-strapped consumers looking for cheap eats and the hard-to-miss promotion of its coffee drinks. Have economic restraints caused you to eat more fast food lately?
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The World's 10 Most Valuable Brands
You might think a ranking of the world's most valuable brands is just another meaningless list, but look closer and you can see that these brands and their worth say a lot about our global culture. It would be a safe bet to say the majority of citizens in most developed countries would easily recognize these names. According to Interbrand's Best Global Brands annual report, these are the top 10 most valuable brands in the world in 2009.
Where Shoppers Are Spending Their Money These Days
The recession has caused most all of us to reevaluate the way we shop, and people are looking for value in their purchases more than ever. Companies like Wal-Mart, Costco, and McDonald's have been more successful in the down economy due to their reputations as discount spots, but designer jeans, high-definition TVs, and iPhones haven't performed too shabbily themselves.
What gives?
You Don't Need the Dollar Menu to Save Money
McDonald's might entice some cash-strapped US consumers with its dollar menu, but you all have a much healthier solution when it comes to saving money: Head to your local dollar store. New Year's Resolutions and the economic recession have made us more conscious of where our money is going, so I asked where you've been cutting back to save more.
Besides going out to eat less often, shopping at the dollar store was the most common answer in your comments.
Product Placement Making Its Way Onto TV News Sets
We might be used to the ever-present Coke cups in front of Simon and Paula during American Idol, but this type of product placement has, until now, been absent on TV news sets. A few weeks ago, the morning anchors at Las Vegas KVVU started delivering news and lifestyle information with cups of McDonald's iced coffee in front of them.
The station's news director indicated that the cups would be removed if a negative report of McDonald's surfaced.
Decluttering Your Purse
My bag is big. And I love it. I have a never-researched theory that a woman's purse habits tend to mimic those of her mother, but that's just based on my own experience.
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