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Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by spacemannoslen on Saturday April 15, 2023 @04:45PM (#35584356)
I can offer some insight onto this, as I used to be in close proximity to a friend who worked in the concession group at the LAX version monitoring this policy.

It was called the 18% price protection policy program where concessionaires had to quarterly list 3 comparable vendors for each item sold showing how their item offered was only less than 18% above that of those found within a 10 mile radius of the airport. In reality, it was too much asked of low skilled and low margin vendors with power to enforce not being exercised due to managements prioritization of more pressing matters.

In reality, there was little by way of enforcement, it was too much regulation to pass down to those vendors even, with that being only 1 of 5-10 policies an excel sheets they had to provide quarterly data on, entered manually. They vendors had so much turnover themselves and employees who didn't specialize in providing that sort of data, they would always fall behind with all the policies and regulation they had to comply with that enforcing it on them was hollow and without power. And when they did provide data, it was poorly formatted, required man hours to read and research and in the end might not even have been a valid "comparable" data that was provided, but, to verify their data provided would require manual audits of physically inspecting 10-100 individual comparables that were given that it was a nightmare, and thus, never got done. There wasn't enough staff at either the vendor nor the airport authority to properly see the implementation of the price protection policy.

The city could technically use its power to make it a priority, but, there were always much more urgent matters at same position that it was a on the back burner, it seemed.

Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by listenallyall on Saturday April 15, 2023 @05:31PM (#35584740)
What does "used to be in close proximity to a friend" mean? I mean your comment is pretty detailed, down to the formatting of Excel documents and the internal workings of the regulators. People have conversations with friends, but rarely to this degree of detail, kind of makes it sound like you're just making shit up. Or, that you yourself are the "friend."
Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by floor_ on Saturday April 15, 2023 @05:40PM (#35584810)
Its a chatgpt response.
Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by bckygldstn on Saturday April 15, 2023 @05:37PM (#35584790)
I’ve had plenty of conversations like this with friends over a beer or coffee, incredulously diving into some bizarre aspect of their work or life!
Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by seb1204 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:07PM (#35585077)
Same
Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by hackernewds on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:04PM (#35586281)
However I haven't. So I call shenanigans!
Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by listenallyall on Sunday April 16, 2023 @12:38AM (#35587321)
If the internet is good for one thing, it's for producing entirely trustworthy and accurate tales based on what a random poster's "friend once told me a while back".
Re:Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at th... by iudqnolq on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:39PM (#35592961)
This isn't the only reason someone might go into detail, but there's something called "infodumping". It's when autistic people like myself socialize by describing something we're interested in in depth. Some people have autistic friends.