One of the places I have lunch is a Tim Horton’s. I usually order one of their lunch offers: sandwich, bag of chips, and coffee. The price for the combination of those three items is posted on the menu board. In the last couple weeks, the register has started charging an extra 50 cents for the chips, on top of the advertised price for all three items. A week ago, I went in with receipts for the last two lunches, showing the extra 50 cent charge, and receipts for the same meal, in November, with no extra charge for the chips, only charging the price shown on the menu board. I went back to that Tim’s today to see if their register had been corrected, to not charge more than the advertised price for the meal. It had not. There are laws in this state for overcharging people.
A few days ago, I mosied in to Arby’s, to use a coupon for lunch. The coupon was for a sandwich, medium fries, and medium drink. When the employee entered the coupon, the register automatically rang up a small fry and small drink, instead of the mediums shown on the coupon.
Did something happen in the last few weeks, that made JCs think it’s open season on cheating their customers?
Raises were assumed last year to be 4 to 5% coming up this year.
But the bean counters now see a lot of fear in their futures. The rate now is 3 to 4%. A few majors will be getting 5% but just about no one else will be.
I am in for 4%. I am lucky not to get 3%.
I expect deflation so I do not mind. Things are more than on my side. I am a top performer. The weaker hands will be forced out if the economy tanks.
Any corporation can play hard ball. This situation will last for some 6 plus months into June or beyond.
Once deflation begins all bets are off on when it ends.
Plus old nutters will double down. We are waiting for the Liz Truss shuffle.
Raise? In your pay? I think I saw one raise, between 2000 and when I retired in 2011. The rest of the time, I only saw more work, as people around me fell to the annual RIF.
The diner owner friend who went right is unclear what price to charge for coffee when it goes to $40 lbs.
He asked how would I handle it? I said you don’t have to go up considering the markup.
His English first language son won’t have a simple conversation on econ with me. He went further to the right than dad. Employers after college are not very interested and that is just beginning to get harder.