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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 23:30:20 JST Warner Crocker

   This won’t end well.

   Wendy’s will soon begin testing surge pricing | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/food/wendys-test-surge-pricing/index.html

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 23:33:47 JST Warner Crocker

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     • StillIRise1963

     @StillIRise1963 The only glimmer of hope ths offers for humanity is that maybe all of those MBA types have finally run out of ideas.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 23:33:48 JST StillIRise1963

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     @WarnerCrocker This makes me laugh hard. It's so damn DUMB.

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     Molly Cantrell-Kraig (mckra1g@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 23:45:03 JST Molly Cantrell-Kraig

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     @WarnerCrocker I dated a CFO in 2014 who mentioned this during a trip we took to Portland, OR. He mentioned it in relation to the long lines at Voo Doo Donuts.

     The concept is probably one that looks great on a spreadsheet, but I’m not sure how it would work in practice. Of course, I’m not an economist. My area of expertise is people.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 23:48:49 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Molly Cantrell-Kraig

     @mckra1g That’s the paradox of modern business practices. Their expertise might be “food” or name a product, but it’s actually people. ‘People’ don’t fit well into cells on spreadsheets or into that mode of solving for solutions.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 23:57:07 JST Chancerubbage

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     @WarnerCrocker Reminded of exploring a possible business post grad degree by auditing a simple marketing class. What could wrong? I’m a consumer! I love shopping. I was approaching forty, I grew up loving advertising, reading classics on branding. I was a graphic designer! America!

     Absolutely appalled at the principles being laid down without
     question as foundational gospel.
     The stupid and idiotic, the wasteful, the backwards. So much energy spent on tactics like weekly furniture rearranging.

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     Chris Lael (cmlael67@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 00:21:33 JST Chris Lael

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     @WarnerCrocker "Wendy's will soon begin testing a new way to lose customers".

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     phi1997 (phi1997@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 00:27:23 JST phi1997

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     @WarnerCrocker
     I'll help make sure people don't have to pay these marked-up prices by not helping to cause a surge

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:09:59 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Bruce Mirken

     @StillIRise1963 @BruceMirken They will probalby get a bonus and a promotion.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:10:00 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Bruce Mirken

     @BruceMirken If they had sense, they'd fire the person who "thought" of it.

     @WarnerCrocker

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     Bruce Mirken (brucemirken@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:10:01 JST Bruce Mirken

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     • StillIRise1963

     @StillIRise1963 @WarnerCrocker Hey, New Coke was an idea! And at least as good as this one. 😱

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:10:02 JST StillIRise1963

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     @WarnerCrocker If you can even call this an "idea." 🤣

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     Jo being generally creative. (joblakely@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:25:07 JST Jo being generally creative.

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     @WarnerCrocker so no one will go to keep the prices down.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:38:22 JST Chancerubbage

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     @WarnerCrocker cars pulling away as soon as they notice price change. But there has already been an investment of sitting in your car for 16 minutes like some idiot.

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     Doctor LURK (doctorlurk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 02:57:02 JST Doctor LURK

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     @WarnerCrocker sorta feels like any profit they might otherwise have gleaned from this is going to be cancelled out by consumer backlash before it's even happened. True genius moves

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 03:02:14 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Doctor LURK

     @doctorLURK The PR timing of releasing this news almost a year in advance feels like it may have been a trial balloon, or an attempt to get the bad ballyhoo behind them early. If so, I’d say that burst specatcularly.

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     skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 07:16:55 JST skry

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     @WarnerCrocker Let’s punish people who want to eat here at typical meal times. LOL, that will teach them.

     Discounts for unbusy times might actually make sense, but raising prices on your existing customers for being there is bananas.

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     ajkandy (ajkandy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 07:22:48 JST ajkandy

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     @WarnerCrocker We’ll just switch to eating at off-peak hours, like doing your laundry at night.