Wendy’s has spoken to its manager after suggestions that it plans to introduce “surge pricing” to its menu received a decidedly frosty response this week, with the company scrambling to clarify that it has no intention of making itself the Uber of fast-food chains.
So to clarify, they’re saying that they’ll roll it out in ‘25 or so. And that it will be only used for discounts.
What they’re not sayin, is that they’re going to take the year to jack prices to 3x normal- incrementally so people won’t notice all at once.
Then they will offer discounts- 50%, maybe.
So even the discounted price will still be 1.5x more costly, while the surge pricing is 3x.
Further, they’ll probably tie the discounts to app use; an app which invades your phone and gives them shitloads of data.
Tl:dr: Wendy’s CEO thinks we’re all dumb.
Tl:dr: Wendy’s CEO thinks we’re all dumb.
To be fair, most people are pretty dumb, or at least dumb enough to eat Wendy’s regardless.
Tl:dr: Wendy’s CEO thinks we’re all dumb.
People still purchase Wendy’s, he’s got good reason to think that.
What’s wrong with them going currently? They haven’t/never even made the change. Most probably have no idea
Wendy’s food turned to crap when Dave died. Like that same week.
an app which invades your phone and gives them shitloads of data
Their app isn’t too bad (at least for now). It has enough data collection that I wouldn’t want to download it, but it isn’t just strait spyware like some fast food apps cough McDonald’s.
It’s tracking location.
That’s a pretty massive red flag for an app that has exactly zero need for it.
Honestly I don’t have a problem with surge pricing as long as the average price stays the same as it is now. Meaning if there was a slow time discount equal to the busy time upcharge.
You’re part of the problem.
It’s sad watching people like you lower your standards even further just to make someone richer than you even richer.
Fuck them for even suggesting it.
Boycott anyway. Show we can’t be fucked with else next business will call our bluff.
They didn’t suggest it.
Because corporations and politicians always keep their vows.
Exactly, I read in the news paper today that “the increase will be in cents, not dollars”. My immediate reaction was to make the air jerking off motion.
Corporations will do what’s profitable, that’s our economic system, get used to it or get rid of it.
I vote we get rid of it, just to put that out there.
the increase will be in increments of 100 cents or greater
now that it’s over, and i know it’s different bc it’s not a starvation wage mega corp, but remember when a bar in michigan did exactly this? i remember reddit being so enamored with this
Seems fun as a novelty, and it happens at a specific stated time of day. Dynamic pricing by a fast food chain makes no sense, especially when the schedule isn’t disclosed, except to scam unwitting customers out of their money.
I totally agree.
It’s fun as a novelty. Not when it’s an excuse for the business to gouge you even harder.
posting works!!!
imagine coming up with this shit – you must know the evil you’re releasing upon the world. like even if you’re a shithead billionaire, if this god-awful mechanism were to take hold, it’d be annoying and awful for you too right?
Yes, useful idiots have been trying for decades to get people to shut up about abuse.
Glad some of us are smart enough to rise above that behavior.
