3.14.2023

Buck-the-line pricing is here

Surge pricing is spreading to bowling alleys, restaurants, gyms, and more

Restaurants could eventually use it against those dining in, not just for their delivery/takeaway services, and electronic shelf labels could enable dynamic pricing to be applied to brick-and-mortar grocery stores.

On aircraft and in movie theaters, better seats cost more than not-so-good ones. In restaurants, money gets you a better table at a better time. 

Phone calls used to be priced the same way, in the time of the Ancients; rates were higher during daytime hours and went down at night. So it's not new. It's just more.

And coming for thee and me,

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