Wendy’s has spoken to its manager after suggestions that it plans to introduce “surge pricing” to its menu received a decidedly frosty response this week, with the company scrambling to clarify that it has no intention of making itself the Uber of fast-food chains.

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    8 months ago

    Well, I was just discussing the ‘backlash’ portion of your comment, and not your overall belief of the subject.

    And I promise you, I live in the real world as well.

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      8 months ago

      Then you should be well aware that they will find ways to obscure and divert blame wherever and however possible.

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        8 months ago

        And you should be aware that the people, especially the stockholders, see right through that b.s.

        Are we really going to just repeat the whole conversation over again?

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          8 months ago

          Lmao, you understand that shareholders are an extremely large and diverse group of different interests? Not to mention Execs generally hold large quantities of the stock themselves

          I literally work in the financial industry, specifically Brokerage side.

          That’s without even getting into how much is owned by groups like Blackrock