Golden Arches start to dim as McDonalds shuts US stores

Posted on 2 Jul 2015 by Aiden Burgess

McDonalds is set to downsize the number of its US stores for the first time in four decades.

The restaurant chain plans to close 700 of its under-performing worldwide stores including closing more of its US stores than it plans to open this year – for the first time since the early 1970s. The downsizing comes in response to a 2.3% decrease in the company’s global comparable sales and a 2.6% decrease in…

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