Surge in Wendy's complaints exposes limits to consumer tolerance of unstable prices

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Surge in Wendy's complaints exposes limits to consumer tolerance of unstable prices
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Sure, but in that situation, the surge price becomes the new base price, and you wind up with the same thing just reframed as a low demand discount instead of a peak demand increase.

Pretty much the entire US economy has been surge-based pricing since 2021 in that case.