Wendy’s Vows No Burger ‘Surge Pricing’ After Online Fury

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Wendy’s has spoken to its manager after suggestions that it plans to introduce “surge pricing” to its menu received a decidedly frosty response this week, with the company scrambling to clarify that it has no intention of making itself the Uber of fast-food chains.

So to clarify, they’re saying that they’ll roll it out in ‘25 or so. And that it will be only used for discounts.

What they’re not sayin, is that they’re going to take the year to jack prices to 3x normal- incrementally so people won’t notice all at once.

Then they will offer discounts- 50%, maybe.

So even the discounted price will still be 1.5x more costly, while the surge pricing is 3x.

Further, they’ll probably tie the discounts to app use; an app which invades your phone and gives them shitloads of data.

Tl:dr: Wendy’s CEO thinks we’re all dumb.

I mean in the CEOs defense most people are fucking dumb. I mean just look what happened to jcpenney, their CEO decided let’s stop with the bullshit no more fake sales no more fake prices everything is the real price on the sticker and it almost bankrupted them.

People were so stupid that they would go to the store across the mall to buy the exact same pair of pants that JCPenney was selling for $20 normal price at $40 “half off”

it doesn’t help that they have an entire army of Doctorates specialized in the psychology of marketing just to bypass your reasoning for emotion.

our brains are designed to process emotion before reason on account of evolution so it’s not as simple as to say “people are dumb”… even if… people are dumb.