brbpostingBurgernomics Δ
If your mom did surge pricing she could buy the whole Wendy’s franchise.
TxzKBut she wouldn’t because professionals have standards
Would that work, though? There are guys who want to be the only one at the time, and there are guys who want to be one of many at a time.
KingJalopy Splooge pricing
Especially in Alabama.
empireOfLove2I actually like Wendy’s, but if they implement this at my local store I’m boycotting. The cost for you to make the food per item doesn’t fucking change if there’s 1 person in line or 100, just the wait time. It’s pure profiteering.
I mean, I don’t think the entire concept is flawed. I want to wait and see what it actually means - especially if it’s cheaper to grab food outside of surge hours.
I understand it likely won’t be, but I won’t damn them until we have more information.
especially if it’s cheaper to grab food outside of surge hours.
you really don’t understand how corporations work, do you.
It’s not impossible.
It’s not probable, but why not wait to damn them?
I say why wait
Even if it started out that way, where “surge” pricing is current pricing and “off-surge” pricing is cheaper, leading to consumers paying less overall, it won’t stay that way. It would only be that way to prime consumers mentally to accept that dynamic pricing. After which they’ll slowly increase prices, 10 cents or whatever every month. Soon enough it’ll cost more and the corporation can brag about how it increased profits again this quarter. Remember publicly traded companies are legally obligated to maximize profit - the only time they aren’t doing so is when they’re burning money to prime consumers to accept bullshit or building a captive base, in order to eventually maximize profits.
Because in the last 5,000 price hikes there has never been a decrease in pricing. There’s a bit of a trend. Corps are always guilty until proven innocent. Hunt: they’re never innocent.
because there’s no need to wait, corporations are predictable… it does not matter how much they say they care about quality or the consumer. they will fuck over every single person on the planet at a moment’s notice if it means 0.15% additional profit.
What happens? They change the prices throughout the day?
They announced they will be switching to surge pricing. If there are a lot of people trying to get burgers, they’ll increase the price of burgers.
But will the employees see surge pay for handling so many customers at once?
LOL!
No, but the floggings will increase.
Fucking LOL. When are we going to start rioting against all this bullshit?
Rioting won’t work, you talk with your money. The only thing capitalism cares about is your labor and consumption…that’s it.
My money said “string them up from tge streetlamps” so I guess we doing that.
Narrator: they didn’t
Let’s put “surge pricing” in quotes to make it clear that it’s some bullshit they just made up.
Back in my day we called it price gauging. Not sure what this surge price bullshit is. They are trying to steal my nostalgic feeling for sure to make it ok?
Ah, Surge…
Wasn’t surge basically the diesel version of mountain dew? I vaguely remember trying it once and not caring for it.
agent_flounderI like Wendy’s also and this really fucking torques my tacos. Well, fuck them. I’m not going to be ripped off because I choose to eat at a popular time of day.
Their employees thank you. They don’t wanna make your rush hour burgers.
The effort the employee has to put forth to meet demand changes during a rush, not that they will see a penny of the higher revenue they are directly responsible for generating.
It changes in that there are economies of scale involved. It actually becomes cheaper and more efficient for the company to make 20 cheeseburgers at once than just one. That’s why this surge pricing thing is a joke. Would the company really like to introduce friction to customers buying more food?
Only way I can make any sense of it is to try balance the day. Get more business on quiet time, and less on rush hour. But I don’t get how it would make any sense from the business perspective since usually you’d want to optimize for the rush hour, not push customers away with higher pricing
Because people just show up at rush hour for shits and giggles, and not because that’s their non-negotiable lunch break or their trip home. This is a stupid move.
I’ll just demand everything be made to order and be fresh. I encourage everyone to do the same and tank their numbers. If they’re going to charge extra during peak hours then you bet your ass I’m demanding fries fresh out of the frier and burgers right off the grill. I can wait 3 minutes for the fries.
That’s how you end up with spit in your burger.
And a lawsuit. What’s your point?
That’s how you end up with spit in your burger.
^ This.
Forget to switch accounts there bud? I know where the two downvotes came from.
What exactly are you accusing me of?
niftyBut are they paying the employee more?
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driving_croonerWhat’s the name of the guy who do this comic? I had it blocked on reddit, how can I block him here?
moosetwinit looks like OP/[whoever made the template] removed the artist’s name, but it is SrGrafo. I doubt that the artist would be on lemmy though, considering it’s still quite a small platform.
RivenSrgrafo is chill. I wonder why this guy dislikes him.
We are probably better off not knowing.
They probably just aren’t interested in seeing the comics, rather than disliking the artist personally
Fair enough
So what happens if the price changes while you’re waiting in line? Will they post the prices to the last car in line or do you have to wait till you get up to order. What about drive throughs that don’t have enough space for someone to get out of line? Are they gonna try to guilt people into paying whatever price they’re given?
So what happens if the price changes while you’re waiting in line?
They probably want you to preorder
Yes they will guilt you. The McDonald’s in my town has it so you can’t get out of line once you reach the signs with the prices. If you don’t have it memorized and realize you can’t afford it… well sucks to be you
I feel like this is one of those memes that in the future historians and sociologists will use to gleam context and the human element to major life periods after the collapse of society as qe know it.
Shit I mean lul
Like, is this a self-imposed excise tax? Too many people in line! Let’s knock the
poors out since our food is unhealthy. (I know that I am conflating an excise tax with capitalist class aggression, but I’m tired, so whatever.)
Not a tax, basically just a price-signal. But maybe also a markeing push since it gets attention by being novel. Its functionally similar to happy hour specials or loss-leaders.
the cashier can’t change the price, why would you ask them?
I feel like people are getting a little too up in arms for something that hasn’t even happened yet. If it ends up happening, so be it. Let the market decide. There are many of us who will just stop eating at Wendy’s but let’s face it, the general population will not.
If you still frequent an establishment that does this, you’re the problem
Honestly, out of all the problems in the service industry this is the smallest one by far. Surge pricing just affects customers and evens out demand over the shop’s working hours.
Much bigger problems are tipping culture and unlivable wages, not to mention tip appropriation. They affect both customers and workers in a negative way, as workers don’t get a livable wage and you, the consumer, get a price surge as well.
Bingo!
Do you know what sucks about there being SOOOOOO many people? It’s that there’s always a certain percentage that are morons and they still go for shit like this, ruining it for everyone else.
It’s an interesting spin on the tragedy of the commons. There’s no public or shared resources here, but the few are still ruining it for the many.
Apathy TreeThe tragedy of the commons is all capitalist nonsense from the 60s anyway. People are quite good at balancing resources within their communities, and sharing spaces and resources makes everyone’s experiences better. It’s only with the “profit at others expense” capitalist mindset that the cooperative model falls apart.
aeon.co/…/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-a…
The few will always ruin it for the many where capitalism is involved. It’s inevitable.
But it’s not the few you think it is. It’s not normal people just trying to get by, it’s the people who set it up this way in the first place. They know not everyone will stop. It’s squarely on them.
That appears to be an opinion piece based on anecdotal evidence, which, while the original claim is not based on science either, does not provide adequate evidence to dismiss it as “capitalist nonsense”.
It is merely another claim in the opposite direction. They are equally valid takes, but one does not refute the other.
I’m looking at you Apple fanboys!