Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law

Re:Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law by ProfessorLayton on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @05:41PM (#45520944)

I fall squarely in the second camp, but what ended up happening was that I went from going occasionally, to not going at all.

McDonald's app-free pricing is now butting against actual sit-down restaurants, or a good local shop. I'm not price sensitive per se, but I don't want a raw deal, so I'll pick the better option. McD's used to be cheap and fast, now it's neither really.

Their sales are falling, and they're doing $5 deals now, so I'm definitely not the only one picking other options.

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Re:Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law by OkayPhysicist on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:37PM (#45521394)

Yeah, they definitely got greedy with it. My go-to example is to point out the fact that In-N-Out used to be the fast food option for when you were willing to pay a few extra bucks to be served a better burger by someone who didn't look like they wanted to kill themselves. Now they're the cheapest option, by a substantial margin, and they didn't change a damn thing.

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Re:Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law by cap11235 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @12:02AM (#45523353)

In my city we have a McDonalds and a Shake Shack on the opposite of the same block, and given they cost about the same, guess which one does volume? Ridiculous.

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