Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous?
https://lemmy.world/post/16723184
Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? - Lemmy.World
This seems insane to me. I live in a city where maybe 50-60% of people have
cars, and most don’t drive them that much. Yet every grocery store I’m aware of
with the sole exception of the expensive Whole Foods has a fuel rewards points
program. Reasons this should be controversial enough to enable a low-cost
alternative:
1. Many people don’t drive and therefore pay a little more for groceries because
it includes a perk they don’t use
2. It seems like a very ardent pro-fossil fuel move that you’d think would cause
some sort of negative attention from environment activists.
3. The subsidy typically applies as an amount off per gallon, so you end up
really subsidizing big vehicles with big gas tanks. Again, really makes some
customers subsidize others and you’d think people (other than me) would be
annoyed at this.
But yet, virtually every grocery store does this. Anyone know why? Does the
fossil fuel industry somehow encourage this?
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Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age?
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Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age? - Lemmy.world
I have a vague idea to create a wiki for politics-related data. Basically, I’m
annoyed with how low-effort, entirely un-researched content dominates modern
politics. I think a big part of the problem is that modern political figures use
social media platforms that are hostile to context and citing sources.
So my idea for a solution is to create a wiki where original research is not
just allowed but encouraged. For example, you could have an article that’s a
breakdown of the relative costs to society of private vs public transportation,
with calculations and sources and tables and whatnot. It wouldn’t exactly be an
argument, but all the data you’d need to make one. And like wikipedia, anyone
can edit it, allowing otherwise massive research tasks to be broken up.
The problem is - who creates a wiki nowadays? It feels like getting such a site
and community up and running would be hopeless in a landscape dominated by
social media. Will this be a pointless waste of time? Is there a more modern way
to do this? All thoughts welcome.
