Like come on, people are otraged about the most minor stuff, but somehoe can’t be bothered to boycot or change the situation with convenience pricig, where same stuff you buy at a store is 10-20x the price per unit.
“Youre taking advantage of my tiredness, making me pay more of my hard-earned money for the privilege of being too tired to prepare my own food/drinks myself, essentially making me work more hours for having worked too many hours and being tired as a resilt of it. So: making me more tired for being tired already”
People were outraged, when this was news years ago.
The frog has been boiled and has been dead for sone time.
I can’t keep track of all the things I’m outraged about anymore. It’s too much.
I don’t think most people know enough about convenience pricing to be outraged about it.
The whole system of personalised pricing is designed to be unnoticeable to the general public or even make you think you’re paying less.
On a sidenote I don’t like the attitude of other commentators saying it’s just for Starbucks so it doesn’t matter to me, I make my coffee at home. Nothing is stoppin the system of convenience pricing to infect everything that isn’t Starbucks and everyone needs to buy groceries.
E: I misunderstood the OP, I thought he was talking about surveillance pricing/ personalised pricing which is something else entirely. Paying more because you want your drink at 3 in the morning or delivered to you or from a smaller store near you is normal and makes sense to me.
I think it’a good reminder that rewards programs, points, and generally every incentive that encourages you not to shop around is bullshit.
Why don’t you boycott it and quit buying things that aren’t worth the price? Seriously, people aren’t outraged at this because convenience has value which means it costs.
The way to attack this problem is with robust antitrust enforcement. Where there are obscene markups there should be increased competition to provide the good/service which drives the price down. When that doesn’t happen it’s because something is stopping competition.
I thankfully live in a place where Starbucks isn’t the norm, and independent cafes can do coffee better than any chain
It pains me when I see people go to these places that obviously overcharge and underdeliver
There’s nothing outrage can do. You’ll still buy from them since the rich own everything and you still have to eat. You can’t outlast a billionaire just on hunger alone. Billionaires own the world. We’re just the (soon to be obsolete) chattle that lives in it to increase their profits.
I am not going to Starbucks, because fuck that corporate US shit. I am happily paying $10 to a local kebab place, because I earn about $15/h after taxes and insurance, and there is no way I am going to make a decent kebab with fries in under an hour, plus it helps some random Arab guy earn a living, so why shouldn’t I?
making me pay more
No, you’re choosing to pay more. Make your own coffee at home. Or hell, don’t drink coffee. Nobody’s making you do that, either.
A slightly better example might be convenience stores in low-income areas where many people don’t have access to transportation to the more affordable grocery stores. The fact that you immediately jumped to Starbucks (something many people consider a treat of sorts) as something you’re forced to buy out of convenience shows how privileged you are to have this “problem”.
Or support your local coffee shop.
So what when grocery stores do it? You grow your own potatoes too?
I’m not seeing the comparison here. There are grocery stores where you can get potatoes at a reasonable price, based on the costs involved in growing, shipping, and stocking said potatoes. No, I don’t grow my own potatoes, I shop at those stores. The grocery stores that charge more for potatoes are generally the “high end” grocery stores (in my area, Whole Foods, Raleys, Sprouts, etc) and are not doing convenience pricing which is what is being discussed.
You’re completely right, I thought this post was about personalised pricing like different prices depending on location and data about customers. My bad.
No worries. Yeah, stores with that kind of pricing are the ones that I typically avoid.
Is ‘convenience pricing’ like ‘surge pricing’ for car services? i.e. prices go way up at peak hours?
why aren’t people outraged in general?
they’re overwhelmed and discouraged because their outrage to previous things did nothing to solve the problem.
outrage is like gunpowder without a shell casing.
I don’t know what you include in convenience pricing but I probably don’t do it.
I am outraged over grocery/food delivery prices. My mom is mobility impaired so delivery is a lot more than merely a convenience, yet she can’t afford to spend huge amounts
Time is money.
It’s not like expensive convenience has a monopoly. If you don’t want to pay more, do it yourself.
Exactly. I’m mostly amazed at how widespread it is, because damn that’s a lot of people paying inflated prices I never would.
Even if every person prepared their own food and drinks 99% of the time we’d still have restaurants and coffee shops.
Mostly with convenience pricing I’m thinking about things like how a convenience store can be next to a supermarket and charge you a 20% markup on the exact same item, and people pay because they can’t be bothered going into the grocery.
Well, how do I calculate if the time-money I save on preparing food > price money ai give up for said food?
It actually does piss me off when I go to a place where I know the price of something and it’s changed(increased). Like a gallon of store brand tea was 2.50 a couple weeks ago now the same tea is over 3.50. I’m not sure if it’s from the smart tag or diesel prices.
A good form of protest I’ve decided is to leave a bunch of shit that was “too expensive” unchecked on the stand before the scanner
Reason why the Europeans finally reacted and the AmeriKans continue to do nothing.
I boycott things all the time. I also have friends who seem to not care at all. One of my friends considers herself really politically minded, but still eats at McDonald’s, gets her daily Starbucks, orders on Amazon, shops and target and uses ChatGPT as her therapist. I’ve tried to point out the irony, but she gets incredibly defensive. I think some people don’t care about anything but convenience. In this day and age, with social media, it made everyone the star of their own personal movie in their head. If things don’t directly impact them, even if they like to talk the talk, they’re not willing to walk the walk.
I’m not outraged because I never plan on paying for it. I love buying things in bulk in advance, preparing my own food, much cheaper.
