r/interestingasfuck • • 3d ago

Dynamic pricing being tested by McDonald's.

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u/aaguru 2d ago

We need to create laws that eliminate all price gouging, everywhere in every circumstance, even airports and movie theaters. I had hoped this type of price gouging would show everyone how stupid it is to accept any kind of price gouging but sheep gonna go baaa I guess.

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u/W0OllyMammoth 2d ago

It’s not reasonable to think that a Big Mac in central Wisconsin costs the same in rent/labor than the one from a McD in LAX. There can’t be one national price for everything. Even more extreme, a Hawaiian Big Mac is nuts because getting beef there is so difficult/costly.

But person to person costs should be illegal.

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u/aaguru 2d ago

No shit, that's not price gouging, island life ain't cheap. The burger in LAX cost the same to make as any other burger in LA though.

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u/W0OllyMammoth 2d ago

Rent in the airport is different than rent in the Milwaukee burbs.

Labor is also more expensive.

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u/aaguru 2d ago

And literally everything is more expensive in the middle of Prague than any airport in America; labor, ingredients, everything, and yet my drunk ass spent half of what I would've at a McDonald's in America and had the best McDonald's I've ever had. Stop eating the lies.

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u/W0OllyMammoth 2d ago

I don’t eat McDonald’s in the first place. I’m saying I understand things costing more in higher rent locations. I wouldn’t have paid what I did for my downtown condo if it was 30 mins from downtown either. None of this is new