McDonalds Surveillance PRICE FIXING To Gouge Customers 

Saadly, "Surveillance Pricing" = First Degree Price Discrimination = Dynamic Price Fixing

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But how many times you VOTED?? 😂😂😂

@@JP-ho6zcwhat?

I was literally thinking to myself we are so fucked 😂

Hey leave the Sausage McMuffin with Egg and a hashbrown alone. :( I think I've only had 1 or 2 other good items there in my life.

Egg McMuffins are 🔥🔥🔥

Food testers 😂 I’m not inspired by their abundance of health. Keep inhaling those egg mc muffins.

it is the most inexpensive source of calories of all our evolution. no shame in having a bite. I challenge the makers of MREs to do better.

@@ADAMSMASHRR You should try Mountain House beef stroganoff. Eat it last after a long backpacking trip and it'll be the greatest meal of your life.

I was shocked when I discovered a meal at taco bell now costs more than some of my locally owned taco shops. I have no reason to eat fast food for the reason you've states.

This is the same way I feel about the algorithmic rent that is hitting us so badly in California. I actually talked to one of the property manager reps about this when I was trying to negotiate my rent. She said "you're already below what the algorithm says the best market value is for us, so you're getting a deal". I assure you I am not getting a deal in this crime ridden hole. It occured to me they just don't get it. People are going to move. They aren't going to pay this. I listen to domestic violence all night from my neighbors, I get robbed, my packages get stolen. This is not worth 2 grand a month. It's just not. People will move. Their algorithms are not advanced enough to really understand people yet.

They haven’t lost anything. That’s the whole point here. They literally have built a machine that finds the tipping point for each and every individual person. They know personal A will pay $XX.xx while person B will pay half of that price. They’re tailoring price to the point at which each person will continue to purchase while simultaneously maximizing profit on each person. Losing money? Maybe short term but in the long run they will find the fine line on each customer and extract the absolute most profit as ever.

Funny it didn’t stop people from paying even when it was “cheap”. The dollar menu would’ve been a ripoff to you if you remember burgers for a nickel. Or for 15cents when McDonald’s started. And back then 15 cents was not cheap. People will keep paying the current prices you think are absurd. It’s all a matter of perspective.

​@@geometerfpv2804 Seems a tentacle of the c_ulling to me. Small landlords can't keep up with insurance and big corps are buying up everything. They don't care if you rent, they want the property. Non-corporste landowners are being c_ulled.

Airlines have been gouging customers for YEARS!! Using a VPN can save travelers THOUSANDS in airfare. I demonstrated this to some of my colleagues a few years ago and they were stunned. How is dynamic pricing even legal?!!!

Does this mean I won’t earn airline miles?

@@buttertandoorichickenIf booking with the same credit card and using your account, why wouldn’t you? Using the VPN is to stop the ability for them to collect anything other than what you provide on purposes of booking.

Yeah what is the best location the have ur vpn out of for the cheapest airfare ?

​@@buttertandoorichickenno, you can always book and then call customer service because you're "missing points"

Lol

Well, I live in Central PA, where there is a group of people untouched by corporate America, the Amish…they spread shit in a field all day, ride horses, wipe their asses with their hand in an outhouse and have no electricity and absolutely smell horrible…that’s the alternative

@@acbower4468 Are you telling me that the Amish don't have toilet paper? Do they wash their hands after?

IDK, I use to read allot of Sci-Fi, and personally I have been longing for a Dystopian Future, something where Corporations replace Governments, and AI runs Corporations, and we are all Hooked up in Tanks connected to Sky Scrapers, to Power Legions of Robots in the Nuclear Hell Scape of a Future on an Irradiated Earth, known as AI-Terra by our Robot Masters... So I think everything is headed in the Right Direction and Exactly on Pace except Elon! Who is running a little late on his Brain chips which force Humanity to live in a Matrix of Tweets on Twitter which a glitch in the Matrix is now Called X...

@@payleryder45 Not sure if they have discovered germ theory yet... 😂🤣

I don’t think that is necessary. Literacy tests for government workers should do the trick.

If you played the STUPID game, you deserve the STUPID prizes.. 💯💯😂😂😂

But when are we gonna get around to it? We have to discuss what kind of bits are in people's pants at any given time and just exactly what they are doing with them. Those bills obviously gotta come first /s

It's worse than can't do business with, if you don't accept TOS, you can't use the product you purchased. It's usually a software based weapon which is why they are forcing things to be "smart"

Considering the patriot act is a thing, do you really think the feds are going to step in your favor rather than the alphabet soup agencies? Can I have what you are smoking? Privacy has been dead since 9/11 as a matter of policy.

Why would you think the government would want to stop that? Seems far more likely that we'll hear, "accept this federal digital currency app or you can't be a part of the economy" or maybe "Fill out and carry this vaccine passport or you can't be a part of society". They don't care about your privacy.

Yep. If anything made me completely abandon free market libertarianism, it's seeing every single large corporation screw its customer base by its handling of user data.

I agree with you to a degree. But so much of what we use is like this because it's "free" this whole free/add based pricing model is reliant on it. If you take it all away just be ready to pay for everything the old fashioned way again. I do think they might be able to legislate the TOS to make them brief, easy to understand and some kind of "WE SELL YOUR DATA" disclaimer front and center. However, I think in reality the cheap convenience is worth more to the average person than all the negative downstream consequences.

I feel like the food is better when they're busy. It sucks going when it's slow and you get food that's stale

@@jerr0. That depends on the place and context. but thats a valid point.

But how many times you VOTED then cry like a little baby at the STUPID prizes from your masters?? 😂😂😂

It works well in a society where the majority of people absolutely loathe themselves.

I don't think anyone has a choice at this point. It's not a matter of wanting to live like this.

People don't. They are all on drugs. Electronic and otherwise. Some of them are just really dumb and still fooled too. Especially among those that have had it easy. People need paychecks and rationalize. Now you know... some of the story.

You don't, just pay cash or eat somewhere else.

@@deadgolfer6345 "pay cash" I wonder how long that will be an option... 😅

@@fahimp3 It's an option now. And even if it wasn't, wouldn't it just be a regular credit card, not a McDonalds credit card? And if they required a McDonalds card, then once again, eat somewhere else. If it matters to people, which it probably doesn't, then the restaurants that continued to use regular cards or cash would flourish and McDonalds would fail. Or, if no one does, then you and I can create a store that does and get ALL the business. Sound like a plan?

But how many times you VOTED for gangsters to be your masters?? 😂😂😂

Frankly if you eat there, that's on you. Same goes for Taco Bell, Burger King, and really any fast food chain

Is anyone ever going to come up with a positive innovation ever again or is it just going to be this late stage petty, sleazy bs forever?

Why not if the customers are stupid enough to go there?

Sssssooooooo perhaps those customers could choose not to eat there 🤣

Why don’t you open a restaurant that serves better food for cheaper and match the availability by opening millions of locations?

I don't think I would call it "food".

It really is garbage. I noticed the less I ate there the more I would notice how bad it tastes looks feels smells etc.

Missing the point--McDonalds is one of many. If everyone is doing it, it becomes extremely difficult to "just not eat there." Same with things like HOA the "just don't live there" becomes "good luck finding a house that isn't in one". I literally negotiated end user license agreements for a living (yes for businesses they are negotiable oftentimes but for us they aren't) and believe me, my data usage PLUMMETED after realizing just how much issue there is and will continue to be.

@@Skorczman13 Worse than garbage, in fact Soylent Green, and RU-vid of course of obvious reasons protect them preparing this "food" for the gentiles, since they censored my VERY GRAPHIC link showing that. Telling the truth they call Hate rhetoric.

@@hadenwesley6548 Youre missing the point. Only a moron pretends like every fast food restaurant changing their pricing model impacts your life at all... Your HOA example is perfect. less than 1 in 4 homes is a part of an HOA, but morons will use that as a boogeyman because they want the house in an existing HOA...

Yep and whenever I mention the company R3alPag3 my comment gets deleted lol. RU-vid loves doing cover for the ownerclass.

AI also used to help drive the manipulation of house prices and the biggest bubble in history.

That’s why I try to always rent from a local landlord. Not a corporate one. Didn’t hike my rent at all this year while my last apartment upped it by $350/month for the second year

No, prices went up so high because of supply and demand.

@@utah_koidragon7117 then why does my area have more vacant apartments than any point in history and the highest prices in history ?

When a security breach happens they want no responsibility. Crazy world.

Exactly

It started with McD and BK. I'm done with most groceries now. I buy bulk rice and whatever the cheapest meat is. Broccoli and zucchini always cheap. Just switch up the styles. I work 80 hours a week. It's possible. Oh and oatmeal with flavored yogurt as a mix. 90's diet.

Customers always have the ultimate power to say no

They will actually see it coming a mile away but they will arrogantly chose to ignore it. There are so many giant corporations that are just going to continue to balloon and devour us so so I AM pleased at those while will clearly destroy themselves.

Until people do it a couple times, then they will

Good parenting. Good luck to you, doing the right thing. I would give some anecdotal nonsense but it sounds like you're probably a good parent. I hope your efforts are contagious lol.

So you want to boycott capitalism?? 😂😂😂

Boycott's do not challenge monopoly power. I will put explination in another comment since the algo auto deleted.

If you use an adblocker you are already part of the largest consumer boycott in history. All that happened is every company is pushing apps. Because designing or using an adblocker on an app is a felony.

Nice. Fast food should only be when you actually need _fast_ food, like you're traveling and need to stop somewhere quick. A burger platter at a pub only costs a couple $ more at this point, and is higher quality and more filling.

@@Shade7x I had a cheeseburger that was voted as one of the best in Wisconsin. It was at a dive bar of all places, completely unassuming, and It was super high quality and pretty affordable. There's a ton of good local places with no marketing that do great work. Best decision I ever made.

I used to eat it all the time but yeah I moved to a small town that didn't have any with the exception of Taco Bell which I never really like anyways so I mostly stopped eating fast food around 20 years ago. I will say I still absolutely love a breakfast #2 at McDonalds. Otherwise any time I need to eat fast food I'm always like "ehhhh what's my least bad option."

@@Shade7x Actually, when you factor in the tip (which you don't do at fast food places that pay their employees more fairly) it's really about twice as expensive to eat at a pub or diner than it is at a fast food place.

​@@Shade7xDepending on where you are, it's sometimes the same price for a combo anyways

Addiction

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You can buy 3lbs of hamburger on sale for about $12 at Fred Meyers

I remember when our family was in a financial bad situation because of the company my husband worked for went bankrupt and all employees were let go. It was during the time of cholesterol scare of eggs. They were like 25 cents a dz. and we had them scrambled, over easy, hard boiled, soft boiled, omelet and with potato mix just for variety.

Which place and which item?

eating more than 2 eggs per day may negatively affect your cardiovascular and overall health, please do your research before doing something like this. There are lots of healthy options out there, little time for research and cooking skills. good luck!

It will be healthier to.

It’s mainly because we tend to be addicted to all these apps and things but yeah, privacy is another element

That's the beauty of marketing. It's subliminal and seductive, like opium

​@GettingSchwiftyy Seductive? I find ads, commercials, marketing, etc, repulsive.

⁠@@PSCA1988I do too. I have always had a visceral repulsion to ads. I hate feeling like I’m being manipulated. Usually ads give me a negative association with the product. But a couple months ago I started getting this hankering for an oreo cakester, an extremely mediocre treat that I had once maybe ten years ago and never thought about since. But I couldn’t stop thinking about them. Soon I realized I was getting ads for them in my RU-vid feed, just the image, not a video, something I’d just automatically scroll past. I’m sure if I wasn’t getting that ad I never would have thought about an Oreo cakester my whole life. It happens to the best of us 🙃🙃

@GettingSchwiftyy ya thats gonna be a no from me dawg

@@moodlampActual agreed, it's hideous. I actually wasn't trying to praise or defend it, it came out completely wrong

Imagine a government working for its citizens 😂😂

Would be an interesting idea to achieve UBI.

@@archmage_of_the_aetheryeah it’s hard to not imagine the most painfully stupid people being anything but that.

@@archmage_of_the_aether like communism?

Apparently you've never heard of RU-vid....

Charge them for it!

Feel there will come a time where self sufficient people will thrive more than those that rely on all these apps etc. I feel similar to how. We now after decades have seen the negative effects of smoking the same is for fast food I feel. It's poison in a sense with all the chemicals they use to preserve the food. I agree with not eating fast food but it comes down to a few things such as pricing of alternatives like better food which is priced badly just now. Also education so people are aware of the risks of eating fast food. This is why I also feel it's targeted to the lower class. You don't see McDonald's and the likes in the upper class areas there's a reason for that also. I hope there comes a day fast food isn't a thing but unlikely as there is more uneducated people on topics than there is educated. Also most people are dumb and logic went out the window ages ago.

McDonald’s is the tip of the gigantic, unforgiving iceberg on which we are bearing down.

Did Ronald pay you to say this?

Would those be the same landlords who were forced to let non paying tenants, aka squatters, remain on their property?

@@beerdedwanderer charity from the bottom of their hearts, we all know this.

Why wouldn't they price gouge when the minimum wage for fast food workers in CA is $20.00 per hour?

@duidave4737 working in fast food is not supposed to be a career! That's the problem!

@@comegetsomedude...That was then, this is now. Be careful not to lose the plot. .

@@jgcelliott1 yes it is now. And the point still stands 🤣

Love the defense for a mult billion dollar company... Im sure they appreciate the white knight

$5.15 a gallon…how to say you live in a lefty state without saying you live in a lefty state😂

What if it's every corporation? Should we not buy anything ever?

@@ryanmullaney9791 Would that not be your decision? There are needs and there are wants. Most know the difference.

Yes they can. Just like Google still gouges you even though you use an adblocker(ad blocking is the largest consumer boycott in history. Doesn't do anything against monopoly power)

Because it's fresher at McDonald's.

😂

Please don't eat your doggie.

@keithbrown6887 he's talking about eating his dog's sh1t.

But, do you eat your dog's shit, or the dog itself, and if so, a hot dog???

If you do again, never install their spyware apps.

​@@jer1776who orders food on an app? Just go to the place and pick it up

@ryanrex297... 🎯

Or, you know, don't.

I suppose you could look at it the other way and figure you're getting a discount for off-peak sales.

Because the all mighty dollar

I don't understand how so many people are missing the point that this is not just McDonald's. As other people have stated in this comment section, this is an issue that will continue to grow unless legislation stops it, which it won't. Imagine another pandemic, imagine we are told to isolate again and most stores are closed or have limited hours. Think of the ways they could price gouge us using our data in that scenario. But that's just a single example. I don't eat at McDonald's, it's clear you don't either, but if that's all you got from this segment, think harder.

@@ON-qy1ou That’s an incorrect assumption, corporate greed is the primary cause of inflation, and capitalism in general has caused almost all of our problems as humans. My wish would be for fresh foods to stay as cheap as possible, and for McDonald’s to become expensive enough that people stop eating it.

@@iamalongusername Wish upon a star

@@ON-qy1ou ok will do

Never mind all the "econ 101" "experts" It's all just supply and demand, sure if you are trying to explain the concept to a toddler that's enough as that's all they can understand

A goodish amount of comments (for any story) is simply how superior the commenter is to the rabble for not falling for such tricks (ignoring they probably fall for others). Which, fine, but looses to the more hostile world each of us must navigate.

Asking Americans to be frugal until treated fairly is like asking Americans to stop breathing. That's what it'll take, voting with our wallets, but despite economic factors giving all the reasons to, we're still at historic high consumer debt

It’s not the companies fault, it’s the idiots who occupy it…most people who need shoes and have 150$ in their bank accounts will spend 140 on a pair of Jordans and then bitch 2 days later about being broke.

@laurachristianson1688... Because no one wants to cook anymore. When I was working years ago, the men would bring lunch boxes with leftovers from dinner the night before. Now, everyone eats out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. From construction workers to office workers.

I'm glad to hear this, but sad you couldn't do this without McDonalds 'forcing' you do this. Can't people just make good decisions out of the gate?

Same, mobile Firefox + unlock Origin beats dozens of jank apps.

Agreed . We live in a market of Laissez faire (whatever the market WILL bear)

That is a benefit, it reminds me to leave faster

Only based comment

This does not consider poor folks who eat based on calories per dollar. Also it matters they can see your payday if your card is linked. That’s freakin wild. Stop being so self absorbed some people in food deserts can’t escape this and need the knowledge

Other companies are doing this too. Not just fast food

@@SuperRodmeister You have been fed propaganda. Whole foods have always been cheaper than fast food. You are among the lazy thinkers.

@@SuperRodmeister That talking point crumbles under the slightest scrutiny. By far the cheapest way to eat is buying fresh and cooking. McDonald's is only the cheapest option if you're too lazy to cook.

I'd have both of them over to BP. Like Ryan and Emily, I don't agree with everything they say, but I do like to see The Hill devolve into irrelevancy.

I’d take Jessica over Bri every time

Robby is so unintelligent they would be better off with Kyle and he isn't bright either.

Get a life

Please expand lmao

@@Taggartize don’t be mad little girl

@@beast888100 She can’t be trusted!!!

@@lgroots8691 incel spotted

They're going to make it so that older teevees won't receive and display a signal.

Even if you buy a “smart” tv, because it’s difficult to buy one that’s not these days, simply refuse to connect it to anything, nor enter any personal information. I use my old streaming devices and physical media players, which at least keeps the tv itself from displaying ads and collecting information on what we watch (the streaming devices are another matter, but at least I don’t connect my Blu-ray player to the internet for “bonus” content). If it doesn’t work as a “dumb” set, return it and try another brand.