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For oil in 12 years. oil prices have yet to find a floor. mcdonalds shrinking its menu to boost slumping sales. staples like mcnuggets are not going anywhere. it is cutting eight items from the menu and cutting the value meals from 16 to 11. that is a small cut when the chain has more than 100 menu items. mcdonalds is making room for more build your own options. going beyond coach or first class. delta splitting the aircraft in five classes. starting in march, delta offering two high-end opt...

The value meals and they all included french fries. >> you know the big controversy, the supersize -- eating this makes you sick. you distinguished it, depends if you only eat the bad stuff. just balance it out and use common sense, youll be all right. >> well, hough is that any different than when you go to the grocery store? when you go to mcdonnell nadals, burger king, or the grocery store. everything that a person things is bad at mcdonalds, i can fines ten at a grocery store that is worse. ...

Labor costs were among your highest expenses. >> yes. >> when you crunched numbers and other countries had a higher minimum wage, how tide -- did you adjust? >> id love to say we took price but pricing power is gone in industry. >> cant just willy-nilly -- >> exactly right. what you end up doing is either cut costs in some into way by reducing employment, cut overhead by reducing the number of shifts you ran, change your packaging, reduce the size of the products. all sorts of things you can do ...

Traditional big mac value meal later in the day. you go. heres the thing, not two value meals, not three big macs, not four orders of fries. each thing in moderation, each day, every day, walking 45 minutes a day every day for about 90 days. john loses 37 pounds doing this, bringing his cholesterol down to 170 from 249 doing this. i guess none of this should be too surprising. we are, after all, what we eat. if like director morgan spurlock, we supersize ourselves on nothing but bad stuff, were ...

Of water? alison kosik is in new york to tell us more about mcdonalds new plan. good morning. >> carol, is it bad i would actually choose the fries over the salad? i think i am in the minority because the competition is heating up among the fast casual restaurants to offer more healthy options. mcdonalds is about to offer a choice of sides and value meals, not just the french fries. it will offer salad, fruit or vegetables at no extra cost. it made this announcement at the clinton global initiat...

Cant survive on. the president can change that tomorrow and i hope that he does. >> all right. congressman keith ellison, thank you. and if theres a protest, i can join you at, ill be there. >> well let you know. >> mika, you stay away, mika. >> joe will join me. >> let the invisible hand do its magic over time. you stay away from these protests. >> why? >> socialists. what are you doing? >> ill be there. >> come on, mika. >> up next, youll join me, joe. >> one of the real "housewives" -- >> may...

Get the price. if you package things together it makes it tougher. mcdonalds and all the fast-food chains do this with value meals. they package the sandwich with the fries and drink and whatever and you can do the same thing. a digital camera with a case and an extra video card and you know, some other extras or things like that. were selling value not just the item and also trying to increase add-on sales. >> because one again, youre not going to beat the big box store on price. tom, thanks fo...

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You can go -- you can budget and you can stick to it. it is a very set amount. if you are coming to new york, you know, you can spend -- just all of a sudden spend a lot more money. >> sure. like the kid in the candy store. >> look around online and see what they tend to sort of hide deals mid week, end of the season. >> if you are traveling with the family, you are going to a theme park or wherever the beach, do you have any special tips to share on how families can save money? >> in terms of s...

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