Wendy’s planning Uber-style ‘surge pricing’ where burger prices fluctuate based on demand

https://lemmy.world/post/12441403

Wendy’s planning Uber-style ‘surge pricing’ where burger prices fluctuate based on demand - Lemmy.World

everything in the world is getting worse in the stupidest way possible for the worst reasons!!! will employee wages be dynamic based on demand! of course not!

Does this mean Wendy’s restaurants should have a lighted sign at the road that changes like gasoline prices showing the current price of a burger?

There’s a sketchy af gas station near me where they have a $0.899 advertised “gas price” sign. Only instead of “regular” or premium gasoline that it’s advertising on the sign, it instead says “fountain” for fountain drinks, despite those signs universally displaying gasoline prices instead.

I boycott places like that. Even if it’s two prices for cash/credit, no and fuck you. You just lost a customer forever. Considering my fuel tank is 55 gallons that’s actually significant.
There’s one near me that only advertises the price with car wash. So the sign shows what you pay per gallon if you also decide to spend an extra $15 on a shitty automatic car wash. WTF??

Goddamn a shell station did that to me 5 years ago and I’m still so salty about it that i actively avoid shell to this day.

I’m petty

Hess reversed the pump order on me once so I ended up filling with premium. Guess which gas station chain I have never been to in the past 15 years. Hope that extra three dollars was worth it.