Err, pies...

[idb]

$1.00 in 1990 equals $1.67 in 2013, according to Reserve Bank figures.

That's some impressive research right there!
Me, I prefer to remain generally uniformed - that way I'm always happy.

[merv]

I remember taking the kids to Georgie Pie in Porirua and for a while they did a smaller size pie that suited me for only 75c. I always felt their pies were too fast a food in that they were a bit gooey and the pastry never crsip and flaky as if they were under cooked so can't say they were my favourite pie. At $4.50 I doubt I'll buy many.

[Scuba_Steve]

Georgie Pie was a fast food pie "restaurant" they were never designed to be the best, they were designed to be good & cheap; packaged into meal packs the whole family could enjoy.
@ 4.50$ they're gonna be the price of the "premiums" but without the taste/fill, I don't see this going anywhere past promo.

Also worth noting here
McD's didn't kill Georgie Pie, Progressive did that. McD's simply brought a (effectively) dead company & put it out of it's misery.
McD's have however (especially with this pricing) ensured Georgie Pie won't be rising from the dead.
1$ pies were never gonna return.

[Virago]

...Me, I prefer to remain generally uniformed - that way I'm always happy.

Uniformed? Yes, I suppose it will keep you happy. You were certainly happy in that uniform...

[Erelyes]

Ugh, McD's have missed the point.

Georgie pie was about the store and the experience, not the pies per se.

Just getting em over the counter at McD's with their deep fryers going BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP is gonna ruin it.

$4.50 for a gourmet pie is fine (even good) but this ain't gonna be gourmet. Not even half-way-gour-met.

Come over here, Mrs Mac's, let's avoid this new strange Georgie fella.

[oldrider]

"McDonald's has announced a partial return of Kiwi favourite Georgie Pie.Georgie Pie pies will be sold in 11 McDonald's stores in Auckland and the Waikato from June this year.
The stores will stock steak mince and cheese pies only, in a move the company says will "test" public reaction.
"It still seems we have a great appetite for a brand," McDonald's managing director Patrick Wilson says.


Pies will be priced at $4.50 – a large hike from the once-popular $1 pie menu......"


http://www.3news.co.nz/Georgie-Pie-back-from-June/tabid/420/articleID/297116/Default.aspx


errr...$4.50 for a bit of gravy, some pastry and lots of air....

Our political parties and politicians could use that pic and just paint the bags with their own colours and logo's it would describe their value exactly!

They would need to bring the price down though to reflect their value to the electorate! ..OK.. (actually I used to love Gorgie pies!)

[BoristheBiter]

georgie pie was ftw.

mcDs is fkn shit.

1$ pie is ftw.

5$ pie is GTFO.


regency wins at 2.8$

I read that as regency wines, thought, that's some cheap arsed wine.

[idb]

Uniformed? Yes, I suppose it will keep you happy. You were certainly happy in that uniform...

Ooooohh....you know what I meant......!!!

[awa355]

Macca's have probably employed the same marketing goons that the marmite mob used to try and sell the return of "everybodys favourite".

[jasonu]

I loved GP, $5 got you 2 small pies large fries and a coke, and Mcshit bought them out and closed them down to kill off the competition.

No, they bought GP out because of their excellent store locations, particularly Greenlane and the Bombay Hills sites. GP never offered any real competition for McD's. Their management was a shambles and store owner/operators had to sell shit loads of pies to make any money.

[oneofsix]

No, they bought GP out because of their excellent store locations, particularly Greenlane and the Bombay Hills sites. GP never offered any real competition for McD's. Their management was a shambles and store owner/operators had to sell shit loads of pies to make any money.

you only forgot one point. Maccas didn't exactly buy them out. Progressive ran them into the ground then sold off the bits to save other parts of their failing empire, hence why Goodman Fielder got a great pie plant, Maccas got some of the store locations, but not all, and the brand.

[BoristheBiter]

No, they bought GP out because of their excellent store locations, particularly Greenlane and the Bombay Hills sites. GP never offered any real competition for McD's. Their management was a shambles and store owner/operators had to sell shit loads of pies to make any money.

you only forgot one point. Maccas didn't exactly buy them out. Progressive ran them into the ground then sold off the bits to save other parts of their failing empire, hence why Goodman Fielder got a great pie plant, Maccas got some of the store locations, but not all, and the brand.

I have heard this before and have always wondered how true it is.
Why would a company buy a struggling competitor only to shut it down?
whay not just wait till they went bust.
Just seems like a complete waste of money.

[oldrider]

The same reason that the big breweries buy out and close down successful boutique breweries, to maintain control of the market!

Same reason lions kill cubs by another lion, so that they can control the market and the lioness!

Nature has always provided the model by which we operate, nothings new, the only thing that changes is the way it gets expressed.

[BoristheBiter]

The same reason that the big breweries buy out and close down successful boutique breweries, to maintain control of the market!

yes but by all accounts GP was ready to collapse so why buy something that was about to die.

[Hoon]

...assets, property, staff, market share, IP, trademarks....