A social media backlash to media reports that said fast-food chain Wendy’s had plans to increase menu prices during its busiest hours shows a limit to where, when and for what U.S. consumers will trade more cash for convenience.
At least with Uber the point is to get gig economy workers picking up people in inclement weather, and is a much needed service by many. Nobody likes it but when you’re stuck you’re stuck.
Marketing and surge pricing was a thing from day one or almost.
When the public was learning about this new fangled ordering a car on your phone. Surge pricing was baked into that learning and a reasonable explanation for it given. (Encourage more drivers)
For Wendys, people have been buying fast food for 60+ years. And there is absolutely no reasonable explanation for surge pricing other than gouging the customer.
Weird that consumers tolerate price changes for services with limited use units, but the mere mention of suggesting the same thing when you almost never see a fast food place run out of food, and the ‘surge’ doesn’t result in saturated use units but instead translates to maybe an extra 120 second wait and they get angry.
The fact that so many people support your hyperbolic apples to oranges comparison just shows how far Lemmy has fallen in just a few months.
Weird that consumers tolerate surge pricing on Uber, but the mere mention of it on Wendy’s and it’s bedlam.
At least with Uber the point is to get gig economy workers picking up people in inclement weather, and is a much needed service by many. Nobody likes it but when you’re stuck you’re stuck.
Marketing and surge pricing was a thing from day one or almost.
When the public was learning about this new fangled ordering a car on your phone. Surge pricing was baked into that learning and a reasonable explanation for it given. (Encourage more drivers)
For Wendys, people have been buying fast food for 60+ years. And there is absolutely no reasonable explanation for surge pricing other than gouging the customer.
The fact that so many people support your hyperbolic apples to oranges comparison just shows how far Lemmy has fallen in just a few months.