Semi-cold? That’s extra, you’ll be lucky to afford it. The affordable water been sitting out on the pavement for a few weeks.
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liam070@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream.
Exploiting human suffering for profit. We will all burn to a crisp with a smile on our faces and a semi-cold water for the price of a small car in our hands.
dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win 2 weeks ago
rwhitisissle@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I love how reality manages to combine the most comically exploitative parts of cyberpunk fiction with literally none of the intense, vibrant, or interesting parts. It’s just a dull, gray, sexless, post-industrial dystopia with ugly cars, chronic obesity, and fentanyl addiction. And now surge pricing.
Truck_kun@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
All companies that plan to have dynamic pricing, please let me know.
I’ve already stopped going to Wendy’s; I’d love to add you to the list of places never to patron again.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
if you hsve a list I would love it if you cpuld share it with me
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
You can just assume it is every US company because it is.
This stuff doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
CEOs talk to each other about this kind of shit and plan together.
Just like how “AI” has been shoved into fucking everything by everyone even though it is useless and makes a lot of people upset.
Expect all of them to do it so you don’t have a choice and they all did it to “stay competitive with each other.”
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
They actually use consultants like McKinley, who are the coordinating force behind a lot of the obviously self-destructive decisions companies are making in lockstep
Truck_kun@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I have no actual list outside my head.
atm, Wendy’s because of their plan for dynamic pricing based on how busy they are, and ‘my local KFC’, because I had to wait 50 minutes for my order (for 2), and they gave away the last of something I ordered to someone who came in like half an hour later, and they weren’t going to be making more. (that and KFC is way over priced for their standard menu if you aren’t getting some kind of ‘deal’)