Just refuse to go anywhere that does dynamic pricing (if possible.) Steal from places that do it (if possible.)
Yeah, because boycotts are well known to be super-effective and are definitely a great replacement for consumer-protection legislation.
No it's obviously no replacement for proper legislation. However in the meantime it is a step you can take in the right direction as an individual. When Wendy's started throwing around this bullshit I stopped going. Do they care? No probably not. But I know I'm trying
It should be protected against. But, you know if a business changes to dynamic pricing and their next quarterly numbers shows that the vast majority of people didn't swallow it, and revenue is hugely down, they would undo it in a second.
The fact is, though. They know enough people WILL let them them get away with it. From their point of view, why would they turn down free money?
Seems to be working, see all the news about fast food places lowering their prices because profits are down.
My personal boycotts are stupid effective as I haven't given HP or McDonalds or a whole lot of cunts any money in decades.
Why do you care if the place you don't go does something you don't like?
Are happy hours and lunch specials not dynamic pricing? It's just a different way of framing it as a discount rather than surge price, but it's basically the same idea as far as I'm concerned. I'm happy to vote with my wallet on this, if Wendy's decides they want dynamic prices then I'll just go elsewhere. Fast food certainly isn't an essential.
Not familiar with the implementation, so maybe this is incorrect, but does Wendy's tell you when you're paying more or less? If not, my primary issue would be transparency. I know to show up for happy hour or lunch and I know what the prices will be.
I don't want to have to memorize the prices because they quietly bump up everything on the menu by $0.50 at peak meal times everyday for an hour and don't indicate that anywhere.
Lunch menus everywhere I've gone give smaller portions vs. the dinner menu to justify the
lotterylower price. I'd love some lunch portions (and prices) for dinner as an option.Happy hour is a good analogy though, except that they publish the prices and times 24/7 so it's not a surprise like surge pricing is turning into.
As the other guy said, lunch specials aren't dynamic insofar as any pricing can be dynamic when the restaurant just changes prices willy-nilly. Which is what surge pricing is.
Lunch specials are a separate, generally static part of the menu. Like how using a coupon isn't considered dynamic pricing for the times when you have a coupon on you.
So, no traveling? Airlines are well known for already doing this.
No more online shopping? All online shopping has at least the potential, plus you’d never really know
Call your house representatives, have them legislate on and forbid this practice, be explicit about not voting for them if they don't make it part of their platform.
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
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What's this from? Is the dude with white eyes possessed?
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