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Sounds to me like they’re waiting for people to get used to this model for every purchase before they quietly add interest.

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Yea, that's a common thing with American fast food joints overseas IME. Whenever I've gone to another country and visited the local McDs or whatever it's always so expensive compared to the states.

Here dominos with coupon is often the cheapest around, not the greatest, but decent enough especially with one of those 50% off coupons

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Don’t reports on Lemmy get sent to the mods, the instance admin and the user being reported?

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I use affirm pretty often and usually there are options where you extend the term a few months but add interest. Haven't paid interest cause I have that luxury but being able to extend large purchases over 2-3 months without interest is amazing.

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Dominoes in the US is terrible. Is there quality better outside the US? Otherwise I don’t see how they could compete charging twice as much as other pizza places.

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This isn't really relevant, other than to establish you have to be one broke bastard to need a pizza layaway, but Papa John's offers a carry out special large one topping for $9.99 in my area.

They also offer a large one topping for $8.99. Same exact pizza. No limitations.

Shaq's really putting that Purdue University degree to work I guess.

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ikr this is literally step 1 of enshittification.

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Only pizza is not a basic foodstuff.

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the only chain I want is

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actually this joke is getting tired just kill ceos

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That company and business model is shaddy as hell, although I've met some engineers some years ago that seemed pretty competent, but I've suffered and learned enough over the years to know that it doesn't matter if the c-level ppl is all bullshit.

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This is the second time in the same thread I've seen someone write "upside down" to (I assume) mean "insolvent" despite never seeing the phrase before in my life. Y'all all from the same town?

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Almost all the fast food ive had in europe (France, Spain, UK, Italy, Germany etc..). was better than here (Canada), except for Domino's. It's always bad pizza and really overpriced.

Here it's not the best pizza, but super consistent and the cheapest around with those coupons.

Jolteon

Huh, Domino's in my area has a perpetual coupon for $7 2 topping pizzas if you buy two.

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Straight up, dominoes has the cheapest pizza deals of any pizza chain in the state in my area. Not by a lot. Their quality is like C-tier, but I don't give a shit, it's pizza, it's still decent.

I can get a large three topping pizza for $8 USD compared to $10 at Pizza Hut or $11 at Papa John's.

They're perfectly low-cost for some mid pizza but state-side.

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Even if this story is 100% true I honestly have zero problem with it. The money you make from working should be for fun stuff like really fancy shoes, not mandatory labor for survival.

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Did you not understand the part that they probably don't have other options? You can't bounce a check at a grocery store anymore.

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I think it means "owes more than the value of the collateral", so even liquidating the collateral to pay off the debt will leave you with residual debt. I've usually heard it called "underwater on the loan".

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Oh it's well hidden in the details, but the interest gets paid. In fact, if you miss a single payment, you pay everyones interest. And they will absolutely come after you for an originally tiny amount of money.

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Eugh. With the downvotes, really? How naive are people? Yep, I understand what you're saying. And that's usually how it works. But f# me if it doesn't work like that a lot of the time. And my point is (and I think what the other person who started this chain means) that when people who could have enough and not take advantage of the welfare system (like many many people do where I live) do take advantage, the hammer comes down and less fortunate people miss out.

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They make money from people's mistakes.

As in: if a customer doesn't pay one of the payments exactly on time they turn into loan sharks with "penalties" vastly exceeding the loan price.

They're not "hoping the customers pay it back", it's almost the opposite - they want people to miss a payment or two and end up paying way more than the actual loan.

It's really not worth it to get into that shit as a customer.