Scrolled through for a while and didn't see anyone complaining about ditching coupons for their app bullshit. I'm not using an app for fast food
- But how else are they going to complete their digital transformation and leverage their industry-leading customer volume to deliver high-quality consumer data and drive growth for shareholders? Why don't you care about the shareholders?!
- Eh, I'm okay with an app as long as it's good.
  
  The McDonald's app is not good. At all. In the slightest. It won't even let me login 99% of the time.
  
  I think they did something to throttle user access. I was using it once 3-4 times a week. Either just the Friday fries or a drink for $1. Now I can’t log in anymore. Seems to me like they wanted to stop people from using it.
  
  If the same experience can be made using a website, then an app is not needed.
  
  They only push the app because they "need" to be able to send you notification and sell the data they gather about you.
  
  For that to happen, the app needs to actually work. Otherwise, it's not staying on my phone.
  
  it's literally one of the worst experiences of any app. it's SLOW as fuck, barely responds when you touch stuff, took weeks to get logged back in like you said you had issues with. some of the deals are ok, you can get chicken sandwich combo sometimes for like $6, but that's about it. their chicken sands aren't bad.
  
  Here's the problem. How to get the average person to think far enough into the future to understand why the data collection is almost always a bad thing for them.
  
  In most cases it will save you in the long run to avoid the app discounts than to use them.
- I'm currently waffling on whether or not to use my bank account info with the app for a small gas station chain. It would get me a $0.10 discount per gallon, but I'd have to use the app at the pump. I get that they'd save fees with credit card processors so that's why they're offering it, but using a credit card is so much less effort and doesn't require me to keep yet another app on my phone.
  
  I find with a lot of apps like that they're glorified web browsers, which means that most of the time you can just use their mobile site. One less app collecting data, draining battery etc
  
  I still get cheap coffee there. The other day, the drive through person asked if I have installed the app yet. I awkwardly replied "no". It was a hard push.
  
  Get a Costco membership then get gas at Costco with the Costco Visa. Sure, they know everything about you, but at least it's a single company and you're not giving them direct access to your actual bank account.
  
  I drove all the way from Chicagoland to around Pensacola and back, only got gas at Costcos along the way. Saved probably $20 just in price difference between Costco and other nearby stations, while also earning 4% back on the Visa.
  
  My nearest Costco is 50 miles away.
  
  Well then you'll see those savings more often!
  
  there's like 10 around me (washington DC) within 20 miles, but the amount of shoppers, it's insane and more headache sometimes. bj's is a good alternative if they're around you.
  
  Costco only has their gas stations open during the day, and I rarely have the time to waste a half hour getting a tank.

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