Comment on The restaurant nearest Google

reversebananimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So you never patronize any business that uses the .99 and .95 pricing schemes? Gas stations are the worst offenders with their sub-penny pricing schemes.

  Practically all ads exaggerate to the point of lying. “Luxury apartment for rent” <– just a run of the mill apartment, not luxurious. Etc.

  Business culture is a culiure of lies.

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  • reversebananimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck them all. I absolutely do avoid companies that do these things.

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    • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re telling me you don’t fill up your car?

      Every single gas station in the US of A uses a sub-penny pricing scheme. I have not seen a sigle exception yet.

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      • reversebananimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t own a car. I take public transit, bike and walk.

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    • HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, are you a hermit?

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    • seeCseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you or your parents never used a phone book to look up businesses and ended up calling A1 Plumbing, AAA locksmith, etc?

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• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re not trying to trick you they’re trying to rank up in Google. It’s basically SEO in real life. Every business with any online awareness is trying to juice their SEO. This isn’t the businesses fault, this is the world Google made for us.

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  • thanevim@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course, an argument can be made that this is the evolution of the number of companies that used a variance of "AAA" to appear first in the phone books of old

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• HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is this tricking you? If anything it’s tricking Google, but who give a fuck about Google. This is a business trying to work within a broken system.

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