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why limit opportunistic gouging to airline tickets and private taxis? You want food now? Pay extra. You want hospital care now? Pay extra. You want a fire truck or an ambulance or the police now? Best not be poor.
Honestly how was *any *of this ever legal?
Well this is one less place I will ever buy food from even if they roll back on this.
I made my last order from Wendy's over 5 years ago, when I watched them give my order to the person in front of me then tried to give me their order...and when I wouldn't take it because it wasn't right and asked for what I actually ordered, I was told that they would redo it but it would be at the end of their list, and that it was my fault they gave it to the wrong person.
Like...I had no reason to doubt that maybe this guy ordered the same combo off the menu, no unique changes to the way it came. But yeah, it's my fault for not jumping in and taking it from him.
Ended up taking me like 40 minutes to get a burger and fries, and when I finally got it, it still wasn't right, and the manager tried to lecture me about how to avoid this in the future.
As it has happened I've been able to successfully avoid another Wendy's fuck up ever since by the weird trick of never fucking going to Wendy's.
Why not stop now? It's overpriced garbage anyway.
That was the plan
Price discrimination should be illegal (with caveats, “student discounts” are considered PD, but not nearly as harmful as individual pricing.)
It’s a dishonest and exploitative practice, and wouldn’t surprise me that with just a few poorly selected datapoints (and with ML, every data point is poorly selected) discriminatory.
Surge pricing might not be price discrimination in the strictest sense, it’s still shitty.
Enshittification will continue as long as people still buy their shit there.
The only language these fuckers understand is money. Dont buy their shit and it will turn around quickly.
But if you keep going there, and keep going with the new shot they come up with they will keep doing this shit until you stop.
How many people are buying 24 packs of Coca-Cola at $14 when it used to be $7 just five years ago.
I've cut way back and only buy during sales. It's not that I can't afford it. It's that if I do continue to buy, then they'll start charging $21/case. The price will keep going up until people react.
What is it going to take for people to just refuse to pay these prices?
How about we try it with wages too, Wendy's? It's a busy time and you REALLY need me to finish a project? Well, my pay just surged, so pay up or come back later when I have nothing to do. How's that for an "enhanced feature" you greedy fucking pricks?
Don't give them ideas. They'll do it, and the lunch rush is the only time fast food workers will make $15 for a single hour. The rest of the time will be $7.25 and used to justify the ridiculously low minimum wage. "But we usually pay more than that. We need the flexibility or we'd have to cut hours!*
Are they trying to win a "most hated franchise" award?
I won't have to worry about surge pricing from the Windy's down the street from me. They're always dead and I'm amazed it's open. A "Rush" would have to qualify as more than 2 cars in the drive through lmao
...will this actually benefit the employees?
"lol" says corporate, "LMAO"
I've been to wendy's a handful of times (I don't eat much fast food in general). Thanks to this news, I'll never consider there again.
oh fuck, I just realized what those dumb digital screen things they have in walgreens to replace glass fridge doors are for now. It's prep work for this.
Dave is ordering Molotov Cocktails, you say?
This is how Taco Bell wins the franchise wars.
Oh my God, this is how in that movie with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes Taco Bell was seen as a nice luxurious restaurant.
We'd best get working on the three seashells now. Our wiping technology must improve drastically before all restaurants are taco bell.
and/or the inevitable rat burgers for the common folk
You need more fiber in your diet my fellow lemming.
I think I'd prefer to use a bidet...
I bet they wont, or they try it and then back-peddle when their stores see a 15% reduction in sales
They wouldn't do it without crunching the numbers first.
They may lose 15% of their customers, but the ones that stay bring in 25% more money with less capital spent on labour and resources by having less customers.
The point isnt making good food for people. The point is funneling money towards the conglomerate that owns the Wendy's franchise. This is capitalism.
Strong point, have an upvoot
That makes them untrustworthy. I won't touch any fast food any more, but I would stop going completely based on this alone. I don't support criminal behavior. The lack of deterministic fair pricing is criminal behavior.
Non deterministic pricing is going to open them up to lawsuits and defeat anything they make in the interm. There will be diversity shifts that mirror their pricing changes that will easily show prejudice.
Maybe this is how America gets healthy again?