Now through January 18th, buy any dozen or a 16-count Minis box and snag a dozen Original Glazed for just $1.
If ordering online, just add the $1 dozen option from the menu and use promo code BOGO1 at checkout. Valid in-shop, drive-thru, and online at participating locations.
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Now through January 18th, buy any dozen or a 16-count Minis box and snag a dozen Original Glazed for just $1.
If ordering online, just add the $1 dozen option from the menu and use promo code BOGO1 at checkout. Valid in-shop, drive-thru, and online at participating locations.
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Another thing to note, one can also access the offer as a banner, if signed in to their rewards account, right by where one selects the original glazed dozen add to order. Just click on the offer after making a dozen doughnut purchase.
In my area, $16.49 (if allowed to buy a dozen glazed for the offer)/24 = $0.68708/doughnut
With this evaluation, I give this the WAGE CONSCIOUS label. That means families from all over the U.S. can buy knowing that it is within minimum wage rates, which helps budgets. ~Good to stay informed.~
When the first Krispy Kreme opened in 1937, a dozen doughnuts cost 25 cents and the minimum wage was also 25 cents per hour at the time. So a dozen doughnuts should cost no more than $7.25 today by that logic. But the whole idea of trying to judge what prices should be based on what a single store charged at a single location decades ago and using the federal minimum wage as a baseline is utter nonsense anyway. Those two instances where you can pick and choose to find a historical reference that make your point on either side of the argument is a great example of that. https://www.referenceforbusiness....s-Inc.html
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Let the people on this site decide (of course, not all are mathematicians or care to. This is where I come in).
If a doughnut from Krispy Kreme was $0.25 on $0.25/hr. (which, the wage you got right from the article!); today it would be no more than $7.25/hr. I prefer to go by per doughnut $0.05.
One doughnut at Krispy Kreme right now is $1.99 in my area and a dozen is $15.49. So the ratio is 12-13% of one dozen glazed doughnut is a cost of one glazed doughnut. It was actually more expensive in 1937, where they estimate (they use "about a quarter" in the article, meaning they do not really know).
If I go by the individual doughnut price, $0.05 would be $1.45 today (for one doughnut) and about $12.08/dozen (even then, this deal would be good because one gets 12 dozens for $1 on top of $15.49, bringing the total cost of a doughnut down on a single doughnut). The $0.05 would seem more plausible because Dunkin also offered theirs for $0.05 into the 1940s!
I almost always try to go by minimum wage and it has saved me A LOT. I won't buy certain items unless it is close to the true value. To each their own.
I bought a new car under $24900 because a car in 1938 was $860. So it has helped me there too.
I find it hard how anyone cannot acknowledge at least a baseline, before they buy (one will not save much if they do not). Then again, I have found people will not admit it on here, but will adopt this mentality off the books. No need to thank, pay (haha) it forward.
Wow. You are just all over your place with your logic. If you can't make an example work with a dozen, then flip and try it with a single. If that doesn't work, then let's try a half dozen. Or maybe let's find a historical reference from Alabama in 1959, because you'll certainly be able to find some specific location in some particular year that can make an argument look better. That's the beautiful thing about cherry-picking a single specific example from a single point in time to try and make a point. You'll surely be able to find one somewhere that works for what you want it to show.
But I see that your reading comprehension seems to be about as impressive as your logic skills. The article stated that "Five cents bought two doughnuts, and a dozen cost a quarter." You'd get two doughnuts for a nickel and the word "about" wasn't part of the statement at all.
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In my area, $16.49 (if allowed to buy a dozen glazed for the offer)/24 = $0.68708/doughnut
With this evaluation, I give this the WAGE CONSCIOUS label. That means families from all over the U.S. can buy knowing that it is within minimum wage rates, which helps budgets. ~Good to stay informed.~
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If a doughnut from Krispy Kreme was $0.25 on $0.25/hr. (which, the wage you got right from the article!); today it would be no more than $7.25/hr. I prefer to go by per doughnut $0.05.
One doughnut at Krispy Kreme right now is $1.99 in my area and a dozen is $15.49. So the ratio is 12-13% of one dozen glazed doughnut is a cost of one glazed doughnut. It was actually more expensive in 1937, where they estimate (they use "about a quarter" in the article, meaning they do not really know).
If I go by the individual doughnut price, $0.05 would be $1.45 today (for one doughnut) and about $12.08/dozen (even then, this deal would be good because one gets 12 dozens for $1 on top of $15.49, bringing the total cost of a doughnut down on a single doughnut). The $0.05 would seem more plausible because Dunkin also offered theirs for $0.05 into the 1940s!
I almost always try to go by minimum wage and it has saved me A LOT. I won't buy certain items unless it is close to the true value. To each their own.
I bought a new car under $24900 because a car in 1938 was $860. So it has helped me there too.
I find it hard how anyone cannot acknowledge at least a baseline, before they buy (one will not save much if they do not). Then again, I have found people will not admit it on here, but will adopt this mentality off the books. No need to thank, pay (haha) it forward.
But I see that your reading comprehension seems to be about as impressive as your logic skills. The article stated that "Five cents bought two doughnuts, and a dozen cost a quarter." You'd get two doughnuts for a nickel and the word "about" wasn't part of the statement at all.
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