• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fast food charges you around double if you don’t use the app. I think it’s mostly about tiered pricing. They want the money from those willing to pay $15 for a burger AND they still want the money from people who won’t pay more than $10. This way they get both.

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      3 months ago

      Fast food charges you around double if you don’t use the app.

      In the US, I guess? Not where I come from

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        3 months ago

        In Italy it’s also like this

        You literally pay double the price if you order without using the coupons found in the app for McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC

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      3 months ago

      Makes sense. I don’t eat fast food, so I didn’t know. But no way am I installing apps for… basically any commercial thing.

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        3 months ago

        Same here, but I do eat fast food on occasion. Their small discounts are not worth enough to compromise my phone’s integrity and my privacy.

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          3 months ago

          Wendy's order through app showing around a 45% discount.

          It’s not a small discount. Of course just using the app isn’t the only hoop. You also have to order correctly to maximize the discount.

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        3 months ago

        Those kind of apps have a special place on my phone: petercxy’s shelter (don’t install it from play store because in order to meet the Google requirements it has been nerfed). Apps installed there use a dedicated throwaway Google account and are completely disabled with a toggle on my launcher. (Lawnchair 2 has a toggle in the drawer for it)

        If an app is installed in shelter it’s on a completely separate partition and can’t access any file or photo on your main one. And once you quit, they are all disabled like if the phone is turned off