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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2583 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 22, 2024

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Are Fast Food Restaurants raising their prices or is it delivery services/delivery prices? I feel like after price increases last year FF seems like it's stabilized, but keep seeing some insane recipts.

I don't know if they still are, but I did notice some items I buy regularly increased in response to inflation. And there was a huge spat recently about Wendy's trying to implement surge prices, even despite Wendy's best efforts to frame it as discounts during off hours instead of higher general prices. My question was just about general price increases anyways- if costumers act together as a pseudo-monopsony in response to a fast food place raising prices, what would the consequences be? Just that fewer restaurants would be opening in the area since there's less profit? Might be a good thing tbh to have 5 restaurants in a food court that are all cheaper than having 10 that are more expensive.

The big thing cheaper netflix probably impacts is the amount of media licensed or produced for the viewers of Netflix.

Do you think the amount of media licensed/produced being lower is probably worth or not worth the lower cost?

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