“This is eye-opening,” wrote one user, while another claimed he’d be checking McCheapest “on a daily basis” for his nearest, most affordable Big Mac. He also noted that the McDonald’s in Lee is situated a mere 400 feet across the highway from another rest-stop McDonald’s, where Big Macs are selling for only $6.69 each.
“I wasn’t expecting to see such a staggering variation in prices,” Fournier said. The least expensive, at $3.49, can be found in Stigler, Oklahoma. It runs 24 hours per day, continuously adding Big Macs to the app’s cart (to determine the pre-tax price) and displaying the results on a map at .Īs of Wednesday morning, the most expensive Big Mac in the United States, at $8.09, is selling at a highway rest stop in Lee, Massachusetts, according to McCheapest’s latest data. But he quickly learned that McDonald’s doesn’t display menu prices for individual restaurants on its website, so he built a custom scraping tool that connects to the McDonald’s app. “I thought to myself, if the price varies this much between two stores, how much does it differ across the entire U.S.?” Fourier told Nexstar.įournier, a former data analyst who dabbles in coding, soon began working on a program to answer that very question. after purchasing a few of the signature sandwiches in the NYC area and becoming astonished by the price differences.
Sacha Fournier, a marketing executive from the U.K., developed to track Big Mac prices across the U.S.
(NEXSTAR) – The most expensive Big Macs in the country are more than double the price of the cheapest, according to an online resource created by a tech-savvy McDonald’s customer.
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