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tp4tissue:
Sigh....
Seems like major chain restaurants will be implementing digital signage menu with Dynamic-Pricing, day/day variations.
A burger will infinitely fluctuate in price, day by day, minute by minute, etc.
If you guys remember the characters ordering coffee from the movie "In Time". Yup, we're there.
Instead of helping the world, this is what they're investing AI technology to do, further rob people.
TomahawkLabs:
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 28 February 2024, 08:04:30 ---Sigh....
Seems like major chain restaurants will be implementing digital signage menu with Dynamic-Pricing, day/day variations.
A burger will infinitely fluctuate in price, day by day, minute by minute, etc.
If you guys remember the characters ordering coffee from the movie "In Time". Yup, we're there.
Instead of helping the world, this is what they're investing AI technology to do, further rob people.
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The only answer is to stop financially supporting these businesses that are trying to Min/Max using their customers as pawns.
fohat.digs:
--- Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Wed, 28 February 2024, 08:56:36 ---
The only answer is to stop financially supporting these businesses
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This is too true.
Although I believe that Capitalism only works properly when appropriately and consistently regulated, and that we need far more regulation than we currently have, particularly with respect to the environment and with consolidation/monopolies, the free market does need the ability to adjust itself to reality in order to survive.
But we all know that prices go up often, but go down only rarely. Such is life.
Leslieann:
Make sure while they may be first, they will be the last.
The local Wendy's already ticked me off when they started only making online orders once you arrived...
Why? Because if you (or the Uber/Door Dasher, etc) doesn't show up, they get to keep all the money. You'd be surprised how often this happens, it's obviously enough to be worth pissing off customers. One Chic-Fill-A did this and the number of orders going out of there plummetted, just like the local Wendys, but apparently, it's profitable enough. Now even if you want food delivered, good luck getting a driver to pick it up for you. Short term profits will be the end of them all.
TomahawkLabs:
--- Quote from: Leslieann on Wed, 28 February 2024, 18:10:31 ---Make sure while they may be first, they will be the last.
The local Wendy's already ticked me off when they started only making online orders once you arrived...
Why? Because if you (or the Uber/Door Dasher, etc) doesn't show up, they get to keep all the money. You'd be surprised how often this happens, it's obviously enough to be worth pissing off customers. One Chic-Fill-A did this and the number of orders going out of there plummetted, just like the local Wendys, but apparently, it's profitable enough. Now even if you want food delivered, good luck getting a driver to pick it up for you. Short term profits will be the end of them all.
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Add the fact that if you want a preferred price you need to use the app for a lot of these places. The price is multiple dollars cheaper if ordered through the app. Makes you wonder why they want you to download an app. What are these restaurants seeing in value to save you multiple dollars per order, just for having the app on the phone?
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