These were 2 for $1 a few years ago. The only way to do McD for cheap now is to order in the app, they always have coupons and bogo deals. I was against these apps for privacy reasons for a long time but the upside is not having to hand your card to a random McD worker and worry about it getting skimmed. Also if you drive thru you just tell them your name or order number and that’s it.
This was their intention. Artificially force you to think you HAVE to use the apps. Then in the apps these companies collect all your data and also you waive lots of potential rights like forced arbitration.
You know, this simple and concise answer sums up the argument pretty well.
It’s borderline extortion to raise prices on you unless you’re using the app, but what if the app selling your data enables the food to be cheap?
Is the data you are protecting, which is essentially just information about what you do and where you go with your phone, worth selling for an occasional free burger?
Do you live in a socioeconomic group that allows you to pay premium to keep your data private? That’s essentially what this has become. Either you let this corporation sell your data for a free burger or you pay full price for their menu.
Frankly, from the bigger perspective, it’s more than a lot of apps will give you for your data anyway.
Do you live in a socioeconomic group that allows you to pay premium to keep your data private? That’s essentially what this has become.
Except they know that even many in that group will use the app because just because you can afford to pay a premium doesn’t mean you don’t want a deal. Also, people think the app is somehow more convenient than just giving your order at the speaker.
I love the whole push to the apps-for-discounts thing. Instead of downloading their app, I simply eat less fast food because the prices are dumb, and definitely not worth giving them access to any of my data.
I tried a Domino’s online coupon one day a few years ago. The online coupon was half off for a medium pizza. The full price in store was $6.99 at the time.
So I went through all the shit to download the app and place the order, to pick up ourselves, no delivery.
But what do they do? They jacked the OG price up to $13.99 because we used the app, and cutting the price by 50% just left us paying the original $6.99
And they got away with getting our info no less! Same damn price!
Those work by having coupon discounts only discounting from full price - you’re not allowed to stack discounts. But pizza places discount their pizza pretty much always
I like the fact that in Australia we still have local non-chain pizza places (and fish and chip and burgers places) where they make family pizzas sized for a family (or for one young man) with our own standard toppings which I haven’t seen elsewhere, and they cost less than similar amounts of Domino’s
Yeah Domino’s has their own thing where you get a decent price if you get two or more similar items for pickup. We typically do 2 medium 2 topping and wings or bread bites for around $20. They have the same deal online or in app but I think the app gives you bonus points or something.
Years ago before Pizza Hut moved out of my area they had an online deal- 2 medium 2 topping pizzas for $22. I paid online and went to pick them up, but they were out of one of the toppings I ordered, so since they weren’t 2 topping pizzas they wanted to charge me $48 for two non-deal abiding, one topping pizzas. They actually had the audacity to tell me I couldn’t have my pizzas unless I paid the additional $26 in store and they didn’t want to refund me the original $22 either. I’m not usually one to make a fuss in a store but I was not having either of those outcomes. I was making $8 an hour at the time. They tried to steal 3.25 hours from me, because they were out of jalapenos. I’m still salty.
These were 2 for $1 a few years ago. The only way to do McD for cheap now is to order in the app, they always have coupons and bogo deals. I was against these apps for privacy reasons for a long time but the upside is not having to hand your card to a random McD worker and worry about it getting skimmed. Also if you drive thru you just tell them your name or order number and that’s it.
This was their intention. Artificially force you to think you HAVE to use the apps. Then in the apps these companies collect all your data and also you waive lots of potential rights like forced arbitration.
Ya but free burger
You know, this simple and concise answer sums up the argument pretty well.
It’s borderline extortion to raise prices on you unless you’re using the app, but what if the app selling your data enables the food to be cheap?
Is the data you are protecting, which is essentially just information about what you do and where you go with your phone, worth selling for an occasional free burger?
Do you live in a socioeconomic group that allows you to pay premium to keep your data private? That’s essentially what this has become. Either you let this corporation sell your data for a free burger or you pay full price for their menu.
Frankly, from the bigger perspective, it’s more than a lot of apps will give you for your data anyway.
Except they know that even many in that group will use the app because just because you can afford to pay a premium doesn’t mean you don’t want a deal. Also, people think the app is somehow more convenient than just giving your order at the speaker.
If you use the DuckDuckGo app and enable App Tracking Protection, it severely limits the amount of data apps can collect on you.
Go get that free burger, king.
“man’s gotta eat”
Oh bobandy
I love the whole push to the apps-for-discounts thing. Instead of downloading their app, I simply eat less fast food because the prices are dumb, and definitely not worth giving them access to any of my data.
I tried a Domino’s online coupon one day a few years ago. The online coupon was half off for a medium pizza. The full price in store was $6.99 at the time.
So I went through all the shit to download the app and place the order, to pick up ourselves, no delivery.
But what do they do? They jacked the OG price up to $13.99 because we used the app, and cutting the price by 50% just left us paying the original $6.99
And they got away with getting our info no less! Same damn price!
I uninstalled that app real fucking quick!
Never again.
Those work by having coupon discounts only discounting from full price - you’re not allowed to stack discounts. But pizza places discount their pizza pretty much always
I like the fact that in Australia we still have local non-chain pizza places (and fish and chip and burgers places) where they make family pizzas sized for a family (or for one young man) with our own standard toppings which I haven’t seen elsewhere, and they cost less than similar amounts of Domino’s
We still have those in America too.
Yeah Domino’s has their own thing where you get a decent price if you get two or more similar items for pickup. We typically do 2 medium 2 topping and wings or bread bites for around $20. They have the same deal online or in app but I think the app gives you bonus points or something.
Years ago before Pizza Hut moved out of my area they had an online deal- 2 medium 2 topping pizzas for $22. I paid online and went to pick them up, but they were out of one of the toppings I ordered, so since they weren’t 2 topping pizzas they wanted to charge me $48 for two non-deal abiding, one topping pizzas. They actually had the audacity to tell me I couldn’t have my pizzas unless I paid the additional $26 in store and they didn’t want to refund me the original $22 either. I’m not usually one to make a fuss in a store but I was not having either of those outcomes. I was making $8 an hour at the time. They tried to steal 3.25 hours from me, because they were out of jalapenos. I’m still salty.
Did you not read the numbers?
Well allow me to round up, for convenience sake so you can actually read the ripoff.
$6.99 ~ 7 - In store price, single medium pizza.
$13.99 ~ 14 - Online order, what’s half of 14 again?
We got totally fucking ripped off as they doubled the price just because we used the app!
I will never, and I mean never go to Domino’s again! Or for that matter ever even use online coupons again!
It’s all a scam.