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https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/1762444050093760761?s=20 Who'd have thought something called "Willy's Chocolate Experience" would turn out to not be a place you'd want to go.
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wendys needs to change its fries back to how they were in the 90-00's if they're going to charge more.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:25
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Brawnfire posted:In France they call that a Battle Royale with cheese 
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Feb 27, 2024 19:41
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Phanatic posted:https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/1762444050093760761?s=20 Naturally this tweet is all over my PYF bookmarks, but this is probably the best place to posit my question: If the organizers/"artists" had put a disclaimer on the bottom in miniscule print '"artist rendition", like how packaged food says "serving suggestion" or car brands have entire novellas in print on the bottom of their TV ads to cover their butts ---- could they have just tapped that and gotten away with not refunding?
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Feb 27, 2024 20:34
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Phanatic posted:Who'd have thought something called "Willy's Chocolate Experience" would turn out to not be a place you'd want to go. Yer man running this is becoming known around Glasgow as a bit of a serial scammer, his name's Billy Coull, and he ran an apparently slightly dodgy foodbank charity on the southside of the city a few years back, that got loads of publicity and donations during lockdown, but a lot of the money did not seem to be accurately accounted for afterwards. Perhaps simple mismanagement from an inexperienced do-gooder, but looking at this project, and at the two-dozen AI-generated books he is the "author" of on Amazon...perhaps it's a good thing he's getting exposed, soundly mocked and ripped to shreds by annoyed Glaswegian grandmothers before he manages to embark on anything larger and potentially more damaging. Irisi has a new favorite as of 23:46 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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Feb 27, 2024 20:44
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i think we should let him have a go at submarine tours
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Feb 27, 2024 20:57
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Tumblr ball pit energy.
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Feb 27, 2024 22:58
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Naturally this tweet is all over my PYF bookmarks, but this is probably the best place to posit my question: https://twitter.com/DuttyMoonshine/status/1762206382663582115 Who doesn't want to go to a chocolate eperience?
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Feb 27, 2024 23:40
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Haifisch posted:Yeah, to be clear, the cherry on the poo poo sundae is there's no "artist" involved anywhere here - it's all AI garbage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvmTilFG0I
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Feb 27, 2024 23:54
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Haifisch posted:Yeah, to be clear, the cherry on the poo poo sundae is there's no "artist" involved anywhere here - it's all AI garbage. I'm more interested in the GLICOLLAπ EXPDO16IVGE near the Dali-esque Ferris wheel
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Feb 28, 2024 04:25
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Seems like a good way to get your kneecaps broken by Oompa Loompas.
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Feb 28, 2024 05:54
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Phanatic posted:Who'd have thought something called "Willy's Chocolate Experience" would turn out to not be a place you'd want to go. The Glasgow Willy Wonka sounds like either a gross sex thing, or a way to murder someone. DrBouvenstein posted:I remember the Sam's Choice soda machine outside the Wal-Mart was only 25 cents in the mid yo late 90's. I remember when Safeway upped the prices for their house brand soda from $0.25 to $0.35, like I gotta start carrying dimes around for my refreshing beverage-cum-weedpipe?
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Brawnfire posted:At the very least they should get the stars and lasers background  
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Feb 28, 2024 19:35
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1762880028516474885
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Seems like a good way to get your kneecaps broken by Oompa Loompas. Well, in fairness they can't reach any higher. You know, I'm honestly not sure this *is* backtracking. First, the "surge pricing" characterization came from after-the-fact reporting, which is uniformly not trustable. Second, the idea of a *fast food restaurant* charging more during peak hours is really a dumb idea. Granted, this entire thread is devoted to really dumb ideas which people decided to implement, but this one is a dumbness outlier even in that context, because it's such a competitive market and it's not like Wendy's is the only fast food restaurant that *any single person* has access to, and the products are pretty indistinguishable. As someone said upthread "Hrm, where should I go for lunch? The fast food restaurant that jacks up prices during lunch, or the ones that don't do that?" It would instantly kill off traffic unless their competitors also did it instead of saying "poo poo, let's put Wendy's out of business. And *then* do it." He did say "dynamic pricing," but that's not necessarily the same thing; we're in an economy right now where prices for certain things are way swingier than normal (e.g., eggs, which went up hugely partly because of supply chain disruptions, partly because of inflation, partly because of having to cull millions of birds for disease control, but for which prices have mostly recovered). It's possible they're telling the truth and the entire point was to be able to change prices in order to adjust for rapidly-changing input costs. Sort of like highway speed limits that adjust for weather or how prices in menus in Argentina are written in pencil because inflation's so high. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 20:41 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 20:28
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Phanatic posted:Well, in fairness they can't reach any higher. Good point, after all it's impossible for the CEO for a major corporation to be both greedy and stupid, and capitalism has absolutely never sacrificed long-term viability at the expense of short-term profit.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:15
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Look, when I said “final solution” I clearly meant the last thing we decided on Friday before going home.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:27
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Phanatic posted:Well, in fairness they can't reach any higher. They mentioned specifically 'things getting cheaper during slow periods of the day.' It was 100% what they intended, they just didn't expect the backlash.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:52
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Fantastic. That's way better than they get in reality. Astronauts should be given the ability to choose their school photo day background. They kind of earned it imo.
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Feb 28, 2024 22:00
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Also the thing about the food getting cheaper is bullshit. It's going to get $5 more expensive, 15 cents cheaper. Don't let them do any version of this idea
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Feb 28, 2024 22:07
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CJacobs posted:Also the thing about the food getting cheaper is bullshit. It's going to get $5 more expensive, 15 cents cheaper. Don't let them do any version of this idea Yeah, the "food gets cheaper" thing comes with an unsaid "but also more expensive at busier times." Even if the more expensive is the 'base price', that just means they'll jack up the base price and then use the lower pricing as a "see, it's on sale" It's just the food version of "This cost $50 last weel, but this week is costs $100 and is on a 50% discount so it's $50, what a bargain"
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Feb 28, 2024 22:14
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There’s no way they wouldn’t bump prices by 20% and lower them by 20% off peak. The public was right to cause a fuss over this.
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Feb 28, 2024 22:48
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You could give her a backdrop of dinosaurs on skateboards brandishing polearms and Mae Jemison would still be the coolest part of the picture
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Feb 29, 2024 00:51
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Phanatic posted:https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/1762444050093760761?s=20 Willy Wonka’s Fyre Festival
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Feb 29, 2024 03:10
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CJacobs posted:Don't let them do any version of this idea
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Tiggum posted:How would you recommend we stop them? Good work everyone.
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Phanatic posted:Well, in fairness they can't reach any higher. That could make sense if they were altering prices on a daily/weekly/monthly basis but there's no economic rationale for changing prices during business hours apart from squeezing customers. Plus fast food restaurants have a complex supply chain with pre-negotiated agreements with their upstream suppliers. So costs don't change significantly day-to-day Real-time price adjustments for gas is an established practice. That's a lot easier because we're only tracking the price of one specific commodity. The gas station example opens a can of worms though. Wendy's stores are franchised. So this would have the side-effect of squeezing poorly performing stores out of the market, as their owners' margins are hit harder than others depending on the price changes. ...or they could entirely adopt the gas station model in which store owners adjust their own prices, based on costs and the pricing of competitors. Essentially making individual Wendy's stores compete against each other. Basically, the operators of Wendy's franchises probably hated this change as much as consumers did. This is actually a really interesting experiment but I suspect it would have run into a lot of unforeseen consequences.
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Tiggum posted:How would you recommend we stop them? I'd argue in good faith for one, jackass. But aside from that: I'd say the thing that's currently working. Y'know, spreading awareness of how much you hate them and won't go there. Continuing to propogate media about how much they suck and how public opinion decries this decision. It's actually kinda awesome how quickly they were forced to respond to that so keep it up.
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Kids like meat that's shaped like stuff, right? How do we make something easter-themed with meat? Dear Delhaize/Food Lion: Not like this. Not like this. 
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Let's just throw some chocolate in the package with the raw meat, that sounds reasonable.
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should be foil-wrapped meatballs instead.
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I would absolutely get that cursed nonsense. It’s fun
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Mar 3, 2024 01:10
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Taking the plastic off and tossing something in the oven is the easiest meal there is and that's perfect.
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Tiggum posted:How would you recommend we stop them? 
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Desert Bus posted:Taking the plastic off and tossing something in the oven is the easiest meal there is and that's perfect. Why even take off the plastic?
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Fishstick posted:Kids like meat that's shaped like stuff, right? How do we make something easter-themed with meat?
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looks like a chicken schnitzel
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Is that foil‐wrapped chocolate? 
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Platystemon posted:Is that foil‐wrapped chocolate? It helps retain the moisture inside while cooking
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