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McDonald's suffers steepest US same-store sales drop since 2020: ‘Heightened anxiety'
MCDMcDonald's(MCD) New York Post·2025-05-01 22:17

McDonald’s suffered its steepest drop in US same-store sales since 2020 – with the burger giant citing “heightened anxiety” among customers as President Trump’s tariffs threaten to reheat inflation.US same-store sales plunged 3.6%, which the chain attributed to bad weather and an increasingly cautious consumer. It’s the worst such drop since the COVID-19 pandemic, when same-store sales plunged 8.7%.As Americans grow more fearful that sweeping tariffs could reheat inflation or even trigger a recession, the w ...