Nearly all fast-food companies and even grocery stores are coming out with apps that give you the best price. At McDonalds it’s a mountain of a difference on pricing with and without the app. It is convenient to some, but more of a pain to others. Our nations elderly are having to pay substantially more for food simply because they don’t know how to operate an app, and there are even some that don’t have access to this kind of technology. The app system is a disgusting piece of marketing and it should be unlawful for the app to give you better prices. Why can’t prices be the same for everyone?
Corporations sell your information obtained from the app, yet another reason why these apps should be banned.
Agree with you that it seems unfair and more costly to those who do not use apps for discounts; however, the “beef” you have should be with the corporations themselves, right? After all, how would we ask the government to fix what you described? Should we start cranking out piles of pages of new laws regulating apps and how they are not allowed to do 9 million discriminitory events? I think we are in the situation we are now in because we have a runaway regulatory system of countless laws that keep anyone from doing anything without a permit from a governmental agency. A free market economy allows businesses to do what they do in order to generate the highest profit at the expense of loosing the least recurring customers, right? So let’s have the free market run that show, instead of creating more laws to govern more things like apps. At this point in time, in America, we need to downsize our regulations, not upscale them, dont you agree?
Yes. For the most part we do need to downsize regulations. Maybe instead of banning apps themselves, we ensure that everyone is getting the same price, regardless of race, gender, religion, or technological ability. Obviously veteran or student discounts could stay. Here’s the problem:
Businesses don’t face much pressure to change their tactics because the afflicted group is such a small percentage.
A simple solution, in my opinion, would be a rule that all in-store discounts should be available to everyone, whether or not they use a smartphone. This way, companies can still use their apps for convenience, but no one is paying more for the same product just because they don’t have the app.
I do agree though that many regulations need to go.