Just like American consumers stood up to Netflix when they cracked down on password sharing?
I canceled my account… but yes, sad trombone noises all around.
Tried to get my wife to cancel multiple times. She actually watches their content and “can’t go without it”. Imo Netflix has been shit aside from standup comedy for like 8 years now.
Once they became a content creator, the service went to shit.
They’ve been spamming me with emails since I canceled a year ago. Apparently they’re also raising prices again so fuck them
I think part of the intolerance with Wendy’s is that it’s food. One can live without entertainment, but not without food. There’s also the fact that tmobile (and I think verizon) gives its customers access to Netflix with their phone plans
Verizon gives Hulu and D+ but both with ads
We showed them! 😅😥
I don’t think it’s intolerance to unstable prices. It’s intolerance to higher prices.
If they also dropped the price substantialy when demand was lower, I’d assume many more would be OK with it. Instead this looks like just another trick to raise prices
I don’t think it’s either of those so much as intolerance to openly price gouging.
Higher prices reduce demand (or at least overall sales). That’s basic economics and we have seen a lot of that over the past 3 years.
We’ve seen scarcity lead to increased prices (see eggs). This also led to reduced sales but not outrage, because most consumers understand how a chicken disease can lead to the loss of huge portions of egg laying chickens and how an event like that can lead to temporary price increases.
Even with Uber surge pricing, while it does indeed piss people off and reduce demand, even those who hate it can at least understand the principle that some of that increase is passed on to the drivers as an incentive to get more drivers to serve areas and times with high demand. You’re still seeing the economic function of a price increase, but at least some of it is going toward a measure to mitigate the issue.
But in this case there’s no factor that makes a burger at noon cost Wendy’s any more than a burger at 3pm. I think that’s where the outrage comes from. It’s Wendy’s basically saying, “We’re increasing prices at this time because we like money.”
Are they paying employees more at surge times? Is their food more expensive to buy and prepare at those times? Are they increasing staffing for a few hours to ensure that wait times don’t increase?
Nah. It’s still the same old thing on their end, they’ve just decided they want more money.
It’s intolerance to blatant greed.
Do you honestly think that this scheme was anything but a ploy to make the customer pay more? This has nothing to do with ‘adapting to a market’ and everything to do with profit seeking.
After I paid $4.31 a while back for a large chocolate Frosty, was handed a 12 ouncer, and was assured that it was not a mistake when I insisted that I’d ordered a large, I decided to part ways with Wendy’s. Shrinkflation with the Frosty’s, hyperinflation with their burgers…fuck 'em. I’ll make my own burgers.
How many ounces did their large frosty used to be?
It was 20 oz. for a long time, but I feel like I remember a time in the mid 90s when it was 24 oz. And the price has gone up as well, I definitely wasn’t paying $4 and tax for a large Frosty back then.
Boycott em anyways
This would send a message not just to Wendy’s , but to any other company thinking of “Opportunistic Gouging”.
Imagine Starbucks charging more for coffee in the morning Imagine bars charging more for beer during games Imagine gas stations charging more for gasoline after a natural disaster. Actually you don’t have to imagine that: many have tried it, and they’ve gotten massive fucking fines when they do, because Opportunistic Gouging is fucking unacceptable.
Pass Laws, you fools.
If the poor assholes working get surge wages during the rush I’ll go along with it
hahahahaha not under our current corporatocracy!
Corruptocracy
Plus with surge pricing at Wendy’s I assume there is still a floor for prices, right? Like at 3pm it’s probably still the normal/regular menu price and not some crazy firesale of 99 cent meals
Well yeah, change like this is so rarely to the benefit of the consumer.
People know this would end up with a thing they like just costing more money.
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If Wendy’s hadn’t announced/advertised their new variable pricing strategy, fewer people would’ve noticed, And there wouldn’t be this backlash.
People don’t really notice fast food prices until theyve already paid and sometimes they still don’t even notice until much later In retrospect.
Wendy’s was the first to try market price for fast food. I’ve heard of market price for lobster but never for crappy food.
