Taking its cue from retailers such as Loblaws, Sears, Home Depot, Zellers and Shoppers Drug Mart that now charge customers 5 cents for a bag to take their purchases home, McDonald’s has now begun charging for straws.
A spokesperson for the fast food chain says, “McDonald’s is committed to the environment. Plastic straws are one of the few environmentally unfriendly elements of our business—if you don’t count what our processing plants and farms are doing to the planet. By charging customers for straws we hope to cut straw consumption back by 1%...and maybe collect a small profit because lets face it, if you didn’t need the straws, we wouldn’t buy them.”
The announcement generated hundreds of thousands of strongly worded customer complaints, Tweets and launched several Facebook groups in protest. Despite the outcry McDonald’s refuses to budge. Said the spokesperson, “It’s not our fault you need a cold drink to wash down our salty food. We just sell this crap; no one is making you to buy it.”
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