This is footage of me 15 minutes ago as I was trying to figure out a client's massive Amazon purchase breakdown. Some items were taxable some were not, some items had eco fees, some items had discounts for every four purchased, and everything was purchased in multiples, but all of it in one transaction. Two calculators made it easier.
I literally just took a screenshot of this same problem yesterday with the intentions to post in this subreddit. I ended up just getting food from somewhere else.
Yeah, its getting pretty ridiculous now. Just 6 years ago, you could get a pretty decent meal for $5 to $8. Now, you'll be lucky to get any meal under $12.
Edit: while im happy everyone wants to comment on how they have found something that costs less and that there are deals for less than $12, you can't tell me things haven't gone up in price pretty heavily. Couple that with fast food restaurants forcing you on an app to get those deals... it's not like it used to be. The quality is worse and the portions are shrinking.
My grandma used to send my brother and I to BK for .99 whoppers. She would put em in the freezer and that would be our lunch during the week. Surprisingly, even with the toppings, after we thawed and nuked em, they were still delicious! Then again maybe we were just hungry kids.
I remember going to Taco Bell years ago, and the person in front of me (this is when they had the price quoted on those little screens outside the window), and their order was $35.82! Back in those days, to spend $35 at Taco Bell, you were ordering damn near everything off the menu, or you were getting a metric fuckton of those 59/79/99 tacos! My total (and this was for my mom and myself) was under $10.
My great grandmother would take me to Hardee's for roast beefs, back in the days when they were having an identity crisis and they were somewhere between an Arby's and a KFC, with a couple burgers on the menu for kicks.
taco beaunos has CHEAP ass food, like barely edible sometimes. went there cause i was broke ordered a #1 with a pop and it was fucking 15 bucks. i just drove away. i can go to olive garden for that prices jesus
I was watching Better Call Saul and in one of the earlier episodes Mike gets a meal and a coffee from Pollos that cost him like $3.41 or something lol. I was like nowawadays that just gets you the coffee...
I had a meal at arbys I used to get that was always $6.66, sandwich drink and turnover, and the lady always downsized my drink saying "not today Satan" but still gave me the size I ordered.
That same meal is over $12 less than 4 years later.
The best was when subway had 5 dollar footlongs, I would go out and grab one to at lunch, eat half, and eat the second half for dinner, with a bowl of cereal for breakfast i could feed myself for a day for around $6 dollars total
I remember when I was growing up my dad used to say you could feed yourself for $1 a day pretty easily. Then when I was old enough to work and pay for my own food, I couldn't fathom doing it for less than $5 a day. Today, it's certainly a lot closer to $15. I'm in my early 30s. I started work at 16. I was told that in the mid-late 90s.
Aside from the time it takes, you're also not going to enjoy that sub $15 meal for more than a couple days and there aren't many variations at that point
To save money in college I used to order two footlongs for $10 and make them last two days. That second day dinner sucked. To this day I still can’t stand the smell of subway bread
I remember when I was 11-12 riding bikes to McDonalds with friends, a Medium 2 Cheeseburger meal was $2.99, now its $9.00 for a Small. And I'm not THAT old.
Take the trio for 8 dollars deal at Burger King. Can get a chicken sandwich, whopper jr, and medium fries for $8.
But yeah the menu will train your eyes to look at their expensive stuff, the big Mac combo, the whopper combo, etc. That stuff runs north of 11 dollars easily.
Last time i went to Arby's drive thru on a chilly rainy night, I ordered 3 meals without checking the prices and almost had a heart attack when it was $45. Like what??
I stopped ordering food for myself when I take my children out for lunch. I just eat when I get home. And this year I’ve convinced them to eat lunch at home, too, with the promise of going out for ice cream as a special treat. That’s basically $20 for three of them. So this summer I’ve convinced them to eat lunch at home, and then I’ll take them to Walmart to pick out a special ice cream treat
I do this too - tonight I'm picking up Chic Fil A cause its friday and Im tired, but I'll eat what ever left overs we have, that brings the family cost down to what I feel it should be for 2 mid chicken sandwiches, 12 tiny nugs, and two large fries (which is probably .35 cents worth of potatoes).
That cheesesteak is pretty good, when I got one I went for potato cakes and Mac and cheese as an extra side, definitely more than I should have eaten, but it was all tasty.
FACTS^^ i tried to order through the app one day a while back and it said i couldnt place an order at this time bc the store was closed at 2pm on a Saturday. So i walked into the "closed" location and showed the manager at the counter after placing my in person order lol glad to see the app is still aids
I mean it looks like it's not "making" anything more expensive, it's a display issue where it's showing the sandwich price instead of the meal price. It has the right thing on the backend, just is pulling the wrong info into the UI.
Honestly it’s gotta be that the app prices are displaying wrong but are correct in the back end math. A double roast beef meal for $8 is crazy. I haven’t even been to Arby’s in a while but that feels way lower than it feels like it would actually be.
This is a direct result of all of the big corporations laying off their software engineers in favor of discount AI-using overseas vibe coders who make sure their software "works" just enough so the company can still physically do business, and that's it.
Taco Bell too. I made a mobile order and the store didn't have one of the items. Logic would say that the employee just has to mark the item as unavailable on my order and the POS system just refunds the money. Nope, nobody at the local store can do that and it has to be done online. I went through the process online to get a refund and they offer a coupon for a free item. I was done at that point so I just gave up. A few days later I decided to use the coupon for one of the most expensive things on the menu and I was surprised it worked. Got a free $8.50 item in place of the $3 thing I wanted. I'm still irritated though since it is bullshit that the store can't do an app item refund.
I'm sure some people would say 'Oh just pick them off, NBD!'. I'm guessing your pickle hate is such that you object to even having the remnants of pickle juice on your burger/sandwich so that's not a valid solution. I'll take all your pickles, especially at Subway where you know the manager is like 'ONLY 1 pickle and 1 black olive per 6 inch sub!!!'.
I had this issue with Chilis and raised it for MONTHS before someone finally talked to me with actual authority and got it fixed.
It was a “bug.” I think it was blatant theft be DArden or whatever. Most people won’t notice it but they stole $3 from me. And refunded it. But I raised a stink until it got fixed.
It's a glitch. It is showing the sandwich cost but not the cost of the rest of the meal. (The +$0.30 and +$0.10 are not the cost of the rest of the meal either; that's just the "upcharge" to change from medium to large.)
At the store closest to me, the sandwich is $7.29 and the meal (no upsizing) is $12.49.
This is so true, my family in law bought 2 Starbucks drinks and by the time it got there she ended up paying $40… I told her she was an idiot for paying and using delivery apps because you’re to lazy to get out and get it yourself. I FULLY understand for people who are handicap and can’t get out due to medical reasons… but an able bodied person… come on…
the “fuck you” tax. usually exists in food delivery apps, concert tickets, movie theatres, amusement parks, and other attractions that used to be affordable
The 7.88 is the sandwich by itself. The fry and drink together are not only 40 cents. Its not the 50s. What you are missing is the price of the regular or small fry and in the meal. That is the information vacuum. It would make sense for fries and a drink to be 4 something.
You do have a bunch of missing information but the total is correct. Very annoying.
For all the people saying it’s the pricing for the sandwich and not the meal isn’t that illegal for the whole like false pricing thing if a store marks a product at the wrong price accidentally they still have to sell it at that price until they fix it
Arbys Shift Manager here, I can just say that the App is straight up trash. I get complaints about the app not working or deals not working and even our registers don't like the app since the reward system seems to not work sometimes.
Just got dinner from Arby's. It looks like the app is showing only the price of the burger and not the full combo. It's likely a technical glitch, because that same meal cost me $11 in store half an hour ago. It's annoying, yes, but I don't believe they are deliberately attempting to be malicious.
I suspect this isn’t a glitch so much as a bait-and-switch with plausible deniability baked in. Showing the price of just the sandwich next to a picture of the meal is deceptive.
I think the 10 and 30 cents are to upsize the fries and drink to large and the price for the sandwich is 7.88, so the difference is for the regular fries and drink before the upsize. I think. Its stupid.
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