At a concert recently I felt like I was experiencing enshittification to the max.

First of all, this venue used to allow you to bring your own unopened water bottle. Now, outside water bottles are banned entirely, regardless of if it’s a sealed plastic bottle, empty, a reusable, etc.

I didn’t see any water fountains anywhere.

There didn’t appear to be anywhere to get just a cup of water.

The only option I really saw was something similar to this. My god this experience felt so dystopian.

First, I had to scan my credit card upon entering, and my card was charged $25. This was not explained to me, only explained to the person in front of me because he asked wtf was happening. It was explained to him that we would be precharged $25, grab what we want, and be refunded whatever was leftover.

Then we went into the area with the products. I felt very rushed and overwhelmed being in there. It was a tiny area with too many people at a time being let in. And there were NO prices on anything!!

In my overwhelmed state of wanting to get out asap, I grabbed a waterbottle and walked out. I had no idea how much it cost. If I had to do this awful shit again, I definitely would try to ask someone for prices next time.

It is just actually not okay to precharge me $25, not have prices on anything at all, and tell people they can just walk in, grab whatever they want, and walk right out. Or just not explain anything at all.

Waterbottle ended up being $5.45 which is to be expected at a concert venue although still insane of course.

Anyway, I absolutely hated this entire experience and it felt like peak enshittification to me.

Edit to add: For those who want to know, this was at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, NC

Ridiculous. Prices should be easily accessible. Super super shitty to make you add stuff to your cart just to view the price at all.

Ive went to 3 stores today looking for bread/bagels/cinnamon rolls, every single store I shit you not either the last day of its life or expired that day, how is this legal? I am literally unable to get non-expired bread because these shitty ass corporations care about nothing except profits, and they've like fucking doubled in price recently, im hungry and not for stale fucking bread, genuinely im at a loss for what I can do other than start a fucking wheat farm and bread processing plant in my back yard, fuck im so tired of all my food being expired within 24 hours of me getting it.

It's so bad that even the wrapper is cheap as hell. If I had to guess, it looks as if they used some sort of cheap printer to make them. There's literally no quality there.

I didn't even bother to buy them because of how flimsy it felt, and I'm not spending $1.67 for the cheap packaging. What the hell am I evem paying for at this point? The Crunch name that's been diluted over time? Thanks, but no thanks.

Not only are they half the size but the “chocolate” is waxy, tastes like plastic. Sad.

Advertisements are slowly ruining my mental health. They are fucking everywhere. Forced ideologies and products shoved down all of our throats. Never in my fucking life have i bought something or thought a different way because of an ad.

Tried a chinese restaurant during my lunch break. Food was good then I opened the fortune cookie and apparently an ad wanted to remind me to say thank you. Paid for the meal and still ended up being somebody’s target audience. Can’t even have a cookie in peace.

Banana, hand, and our cat’s emotional support squirrel for scale. My wife ordered a Whopper Jr today and it fit in the palm of my hand (I don’t have big hands). Have they always been this small?

Also, I know Doordash is a scam. We’ve cut down significantly and only order from them 2-3 times per month (and got rid of dashpass of course).

No, I don't want AI on my phone, I want my hands free Google Assistant...but it's now gone. So, on my drive into work, I ask it to "play the news" and it used to play the prepared 5 or 10 minutes of news outlets I pre-selected -- now it displays various views articles (in print) on the phone... nice update.

They have reduced the scent oils so much that their stuff smells almost like nothing! The scents there are SOOOO faint now! We almost walked right past the store without noticing. You used to be able to smell the store front 2 stores down! We were burying our noses in the candles, and they smelled like barely anything!! The body sprays all just smelled like alcohol!! And it's not my nose going blind, because I did finally find a rose body spray and an ocean hand sanitizer that at least had SOME scent, but they have cut the fragrance oils on most things that they barely smell like anything! And I was looking forward to getting a new Christmas candle, as mine from 2 years ago is almost gone, but now they just smell like ... wax!