{"id":833,"date":"2024-02-28T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:38:20","slug":"wendys-reverses-crazy-price-surge-plan-or-do-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/28\/wendys-reverses-crazy-price-surge-plan-or-do-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy\u2019s Reverses Crazy Price Surge Plan. Or do they?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day Wendy\u2019s CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2024\/02\/27\/wendys-menu-surge-pricing\/72761277007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announces his crazy plan<\/a>\u00a0to use price surging on their new menu boards. Like Ubers. Or airline fees. Intended result? Higher prices during the day\u2019s busiest hours while lower cost during slower periods. The update would happen autonomously (I assume) and work seamlessly with the registers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Society\u2019s response? They lost their proverbial shit. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wendy\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/28\/business\/wendys-dynamic-pricing-surge-explained\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">response to Society\u2019s response<\/a>? Our bad. Here is what our CEO meant to say: It\u2019s not price surging. The system will just apply discounts to our less busy periods of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Society\u2019s response? Wait. What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My response? Wait a minute. &lt;does some math> Higher prices during the day\u2019s busiest hours while lower cost during slower periods. You haven\u2019t fooled me Wendy, you red-headed stepchild. I still respect your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HNJCeZJzbs&amp;list=PLoqYvZw1HylqU3iUShsDyYEFELX1seD4_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mad rapping skills<\/a>\u00a0though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day Wendy\u2019s CEO\u00a0announces his crazy plan\u00a0to use price surging on their new menu boards. Like Ubers. Or airline fees. Intended result? Higher prices during the day\u2019s busiest hours while lower cost during slower periods. The update would happen autonomously (I assume) and work seamlessly with the registers. Society\u2019s response? They lost their proverbial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[457,456],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-price-surge","tag-wendys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}