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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.
Isn't this just a badly branded happy hour?
The sad hour
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.
It’s been many many years since I’ve last eaten at Wendy’s. Not sure why I’d start now.
i stopped going there when they switched to plastic cups
Haven’t been there in at least 15 years now that I think about it
I struggle to understand the people who are angry about this one. I'm not saying it's a good business move, but it's not like it hurts the general population
With fast food, you're already paying a premium to get prepared food on demand. The people who can't or don't want to afford it can avoid the premium pricing by planning ahead and packing lunches from home.
This is basic supply and demand economics at this point. If prices go up, demand will go down as people move to other restaurants that are cheaper, or stick with groceries.
Now if it was a grocery store doing this, I would feel differently. But fast food is not a basic human need.
This is basic supply and demand economics at this point.
A sign you can ignore someone's opinion of economics.
Basic doesn't mean "fundamental." It means "for children."
This is a cheap and convenient product using price-gouging to be neither cheap nor convenient. It's fucking stupid and you gain nothing by pretending otherwise. Normalizing this sort of abuse is part of how it spreads. Stop making things worse for everybody.
So long, and thanks for all the fish sticks