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.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Sure it is. I believe you.

    (Or is it that store finding is the excuse?)

    edit to clarify: is it a useful feature? I guess. but, I very much doubt that people are using that feature more than the first time they find a location. or needing to.

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      9 months ago

      It’s so you can start an order on your phone and it will automatically be set to pick up at your nearest store. It’s a legit use of the location data.

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      9 months ago

      I have set it as “Ask me everytime” and only used it when I needed to locate a nearby McD. Recently the “Deals” stopped showing up as it required location data with precision setting turned on. So, if I need to use the Deals I need to share my location which shows that they are mining your data for the deals. I kill the app after I order as they don’t need to track me from my home to the restaurant.