Dynamic pricing was once the realm of Uber and airlines. Now, it's coming to restaurants.
Dynamic pricing was once the realm of Uber and airlines. Now, it's coming to restaurants.
Your burger may cost more depending on what time of day it is — and how hungry and willing you are to pay up.
The next auction round starts in 5 minutes as you franticly hit 'accept' for the dynamically priced minimum bid. You forgo the premium sauce package just incase the bidding gets competitive. Up next is the Big Mac, lot of 1, and you're hungry. You don't have time to do the next 15 minute auction round, you're got to get back to the job. You take note of the shill bidder on company payroll in the corner but there's a big group today since it's the lunch rush so it'll probably be competitive. You hope he doesn't notice that you've put on makeup to cover up your gaunt look. Today you're eating. You even tried to throw off your coworkers by telling them you were going somewhere else but you still notice a few people there. Bidding starts at $25.54, about an hours wage. You grasp your phone tightly as your tap your finger to increase your bid. It climbs to $55.44 as some people walk out of the restaurant looking dejected. $65.95. You know you won't eat dinner, this small luxury is enough to satisfy you. You're top bidder, only a few seconds remain. You look up to see the shill bidder snarl at you as he stares directly into your eyes and taps once on his phone. He knows he can push you. Your heart sinks as you see the price, $135 even. You frown as you place your final bid. 'Congratulations' appears on your phone.
please stop typing a CEO will read this and get ideas
Looking into this.
It’s incredible how big business has focused almost entirely on business model innovation in recent years. The last decade has been nothing but figuring out how to charge more, create recurring revenue streams, skirt regulations, download costs, eliminate competition, etc. Not that companies weren’t doing those things before, but usually they had to provide some sort of improvement in product or service or price as an excuse to ring fence and monetize their efforts. Now it’s just “I bet if we did nothing but change the way we charge money for things, we could make more money!”
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
An economy based entirely on ratfucking and scamming.
We’re in 1729 France now baby
my rate of profit! my rate of profit is falling TBF there's only so many ways to cook a burger.
Eating out already feels like a scam with how much prices have been jacked up the past few years.
Next is the grocery store
The prices will be dynamic, the wages stagnant.
"Just wait a couple hours. Just adjust your circadian rhythm so that you're not hungry during peak hours. Just do your grocery shopping in between 10:23 and 11:02, it's so easy."
- Future annoying bootstraps influencers
Point 2, simply do not be poor. Power move.
The prices will be dynamic, the wages stagnant.
Indeed, just remember it's not about treats, it's about ethics in economics. Don't let them smear us on this. Everybody needs treats they're a basic human right.
I bet Wendy is now super pissed
Businesses, on the other hand, say it helps them balance supply and demand while giving customers the opportunity to take advantage of bargains at off-peak dining times.
poors can eat at 4 in the morning
Bargaining is when you eat at 1am to pay the old regular price
Any “savings” are total bullshit - a corporation will never, ever ever take anything less than they possibly can
I'm sure employers would love to give us higher wages during peak hours as well /s.
Yeah this just seems like a reason for fast food workers to unionize like the Starbucks employees did.
I’ve seen footage and some news clips of people “hacking” gas stations with remote devices or changing prices at the pump with a generic manager’s key.
If anyone here is diabolical and know more information, please let me know
I am not diabolical (not because it's wrong but because I'm a chickenshit), but is "remote device" like a raspberry pi?
Also gotta love how many things are keyed alike.
but is "remote device" like a raspberry pi?
Not the ones I’ve seen. They’re usually all from the manufacturers of the machines or some generic remote like a “universal TV remote” that just works with a bunch of stuff because it uses default protections
I wish the US had a government that implement common sense legislation to improve the lives of its citizens. Like banning this bullshit in all cases.
This is a good way to ensure that I never go out to eat ever again. Can't dynamically price my frozen pizzas.
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For the love of the gods no one lathe this please.
We live in hell
every little capitalist wishes they were the mythological guy upmarking shovels & pickaxes on the eve of the gold rush, but they're as a rule too chickenshit to actively try to squeeze people as they come in the store. now there's algorithms they can hide behind and control across all their locations, to them it's a wet dream.
i think the last cruel use of an 'ai' algorithm should be 'optimizing' the line these guys go to the guillotine
And I will continue not going to restaurants
Print out a few pages of qr code stickers linking to PPB or :lib
For real, if you're scanning QR codes... you shouldn't be. They are not secure and it's infinitely easier to hijack a business QR code than it is to install a card skimmer, except a QR code can be used to gain access to vastly more than just your credit card details.
On a similar note there's this company I have purchased a consumable good from online that I opted for auto-renewal with because it's cheaper. I have a new card since I signed up with them so the transaction didn't go through this time around and there's nowhere on their website to change my card details. It takes idk 24-48 hours and then I get this text message saying something along the lines of "Your card has failed to process, please follow this (url shortened link) to update your details". The shortened url leads to a 3rd party payment processing and credential-storing website that is a reputable e-commerce frontend so I'm 99% it's legitimate but I was like "Naw, fuck that" and sent their company director a blistering email saying that their payment processing is virtually indistinguishable from a phishing scam and to do better.
I haven't updated my card details with them since that email and their garbage tier "I can assure you that the message you received is verified and was sent from by our team" response in protest.
Fucken tone deaf bullshit. My problem wasn't me saying "Can you please verify that you sent me this message?" (MFer, do you want me to email you every time I need to update my card details to verify this shit??) but it was that their processes are extremely vulnerable to exploits and, although I'm fairly confident that I can identify that it's legitimate, I don't want to have to go through the process of carefully checking the unshortened url for any sneaky typographical anomalies and sussing out the whole website and it creates such a lax security culture that it encourages people who aren't tech savvy to drop their guard, which can easily lead to personal disaster.
Fuck all companies, fuck capitalism etc. etc. but such blatant, negligent disregard for customer security is just straight-up bullshit.
/rantThis is a great idea actually, stuffing those little markers with propaganda at places that do this
Once this shit starts for real, just take all your groceries and leave them in the middle of the store. They’ll be thrown away - we should also be doing this with Israeli products like they did during South African boycotts.
social credit system ?Good thing I already cannot afford to go out to eat I wont even notice
I love how whenever capitalists do something ghoulish they always try to spin it as, this is good for you, actually
Get bent idiots my kid isn’t hungry for lunch at 3PM
time to go to the drive thru during peak hours, place a big order, then drive away
If there's any way to make American proles revolt, this might be it.
Gross, though it further justifies my going out of step with the main hours for shorter queues. I do get less fresh chips generally
You’re going to pay more and more money for less and less stuff, more and more frequently. Better get used to not-extortion!
Any company that does this can fuck right off. I would rather burn their eateries to the ground then eat there.
Real good that you can just eat wherever and aren't limited to say, 30 minutes around noon, so you can always get those deals
If restaurants had HEPA filters and mask mandates I would be very upset right now