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Top 10 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: McDonald's Corp oration(MCD)

McDonald?s Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a worldwide foodservice retailer. It franchises and operates McDonald?s restaurants that offer various food items, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 32,478 restaurants in 117 countries, of which 26,216 were operated by franchisees; and 6,262 were operated by the company. McDonald?s Corporation was founded in 1948 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

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  Also occupying the dog house for the period was McDonald's (MCD), whose shares declined 5.9%. The restaurateur's second-quarter top and bottom line numbers were only slightly better than the prior year's, and that was mostly due to expansion and price increases. Meanwhile, comparable-store sales were flat and guest traffic was negative in all regions. Moreover, food quality issues in China will likely weigh on second-half results.

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  www.mcdonalds.com Monopoly is back at McDonald's (MCD). The world's largest burger chain has revived its annual promotion, and Big Mac lovers have until Oct. 27 to collect game stamps themed to Hasbro's (HAS) Monopoly board game. It's a big deal, and McDonald's can use the extra attention. The fast-food chain has posted negative year-over-year comparable-restaurant sales in nine of the past 10 months. Let's look at some of things that you might not know about the four-week promotion. 1. You Don't Really Win $1 Million in Real Dollars The top prize is once again a $1 million prize if a customer nabs the Park Place and Boardwalk pieces. However, the lucky winner had better not go on a $1 million shopping spree. Tax considerations aside, the winning prize is actually an annuity -- $50,000 every year for the next 20 ! years. That does add up to $1 million, but you have to factor in inflation. The actual value of the $1 million prize in today's dollars is closer to half that sum. 2. The Odds Are Very Long for the Grand Prize The odds of finding Park Place are 1 in 11, but the odds of finding Boardwalk are 1 in 651 million. So your chances of getting them both to win the $1 million grand prize are about 1 in 3.5 billion. 3. Yes, There Was a Cheating Scandal Big prizes draw big attention, but they also bring out the worst in scammers. In 1995, a head of security for the marketing company running the promotion started to steal the top prizes. He would then pass them along to associates in exchange for a piece of the action. By the time it was uncovered a few years later, this multi-state crime ring had claimed $20 million in prizes. Eight people were ultimately arrested. Realizing that it had a public relations nightmare on its hands, McDonald's acted quickly. It announced that it would be dishing out an additional $10 million in prizes in the next installment of the Monopoly promotion. That seems to have done the trick. Consumers flocked back to the Golden Arch

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