Making It Even Tougher on Consumers
We’ve all seen the many covert ways that merchants employ to take advantage of their customers.
The other day, I was talking to the recently retired VP Marketing at the roast beef sandwich chain Arby’s, and I asked him if he has something like McDonald’s “Filet of Fish.” He asked when was the last time I had the McDonald’s product, and I said, “Oh, I’ll guess 8 – 10 years ago.” He laughed and challenged me to try again. “Ever hear of shrinkflation?” he asked. “That Filet of Fish is now a tiny fraction of the size it was a decade ago.”
Note the 16% “fee” on the menu above. What’s the problem (outside of clarity) with simply raising your prices by 16% and skipping the weird and obscure language? “The fee is revenue that is not segmented or designated in any way?” Are you serious?
The $3.00 item at the top actually costs the customer $3.48.
When we look at the map at left, showing cardiac related deaths during 2013 compared to Waffle House locations, our immediate thought is that the fast food chain is causing cardiac arrest. And, given that they serve up mass quantities of low-grade, highly processed breakfast foods, that’s certainly possible.
Certainly the poem here by John Roedel speaks to many of us, in particular the lost art of kindness.
Chevron is trying to convince us that the problem with high gasoline prices is the taxes we pay to keep our roads from falling apart. If we feel we’re paying too much at the pump, they want us to call our representatives and demand lower per-gallon taxes.
I hope so, but I wouldn’t bet my (after)life on it.
What Roger Penrose says here strikes me as credible. But keep in mind what the philosophers of science say: If there is no possible experiment that could disprove a theory, it’s not science at all, but rather religion.
The meme here made me laugh, mainly because of the absurd notion that any of Trump’s sociopathic characteristics could possibly “haunt” him for a fraction of a second, let alone the rest of his life.
Regarding the pathetic story at left, I have two responses:
In a recent post, I tried to answer the question: 
There are two basic answers to the question:
