Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

Wait until it hits your groceries, too.

Price tags, which are normally printed out individually for items using paper and ink, are slowly being replaced by digital displays that grocers say will increase productivity and potentially lower prices for consumers.

They always throw that line out there.

Bullshit. It never serves the customer’s interest. Just like every big-box store was supposed to lower prices and increase variety for the consumer, instead they drove small stores out of business, reduced variety to save costs, sell the same junk, and now control pricing where you no longer have choices.

Burger King made a statement that they're not using surge pricing, rather they're reducing the cost during slow hours. Uh... That's surge pricing since they already raised the "regular" cost quite a lot.

Cancel order. Every. Time.

Pricing can change for a variety of reasons

Gee, thanks

How long before pricing starts going up whenever you start an order?

* Pricing can change for a variety of reasons.

Not good enough there, King.

Expedia pricing literally went up $300 between starting checkout and finalizing, within 10-12 minutes.

God damn predatory horseshit.

I'd say the real concern here is that someone is spending over $30 at Burger King. For that much I could have gone somewhere good.

One would think they could prevent price changes during the order process... This is just gouging for a little more money from the customer. I'd be surprised if they didn't do it systematically.

Sic semper tyrannis

I have a WILD solution. Stop giving them money. And somehow this never occurs to anyone on here.

The enshittification continues in ever more surprising and confusing ways.

Burger King's on the shit list then

I need more context here. I know of talk about dynamic pricing, but heard they walked that back. I mean would you get the same notification if you like added bacon or a dessert on the final menus right before you hit total?

Good post, wrong community.