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Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales (apnews.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/economics@lemmy.world

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Wendy’s is closing several hundred U.S. restaurants and increasing its focus on value after a weaker-than-expected fourth quarter.

The Dublin, Ohio-based company said Friday that its global same-store sales, or sales at locations open at least a year, fell 10% in the October-December period. That was worse than the 8.5% drop expected by analysts polled by FactSet.

U.S. same-store sales fell even further in the fourth quarter. Wendy’s said late last year that it planned to close underperforming U.S. restaurants, but it gave more details about those closures Friday.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully this will start a trend where businesses try again to win their customers loyalty, not force them into a corner.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

The only loyalty that matters to businesses is shareholder value.