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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.

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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.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

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.

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Por qué no los tres?

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

Do you only have chains? No normal pizzeria?

dustycups

Awful in Australia.
They got a fancy menu but it still all smells of old oil or something.

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Fucking thank you. I work with SNAP and you've absolutely nailed the intention of the program. That assclown is disgustingly bitter.

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McDonalds seems to have become an exception, as it tends to be cheaper in the EU than in the US

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Based on my sample size of the one Dominoes restaurant in Nijmegen (Netherlands): it is better outside of the US. Still not great, but better. The chicken shoarma pizza could possibly be considered 'good' if it were fresh, but that location only does delivery so...

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Even knowing this and the grand plan, I feel like I get sucked in, too. It starts as "wanting to stick it to the man" by taking them up on whatever overly generous deal they feel like offering. "I know they'll get rid of it eventually, but there's no harm in abusing it while I can". But any "good" company won't just instantly quadruple their prices and sack all of their customer service staff on the spot. It'll always start off slowly. They'll offer promotions that are 5% less generous, they'll start to charge bag fees or service charges. They'll impose minimum transaction amounts. Etc.

By the time it becomes obvious, it usually too ingrained in your life, and the lives of many others to easily ditch. I saw this happen a lot with uber eats and Doordash. During COVID, they were paying people to stand at train stations and hand out flyers. They'd be offering like 50, 60, 70,.sometimes 80% off your order. Some of them were one time use only, but the lower value ones like 40% were usually reusable if you got a new code. Eventually by this point where you have to sign up for a monthly subscription to get any discount, it's already kinda ingrained in my life and once or twice a week when I "can't be arsed cooking" I end up just ordering something in and blowing 20 or 30 bucks on a meal rather than just keeping a pizza or some salad or other easy meals in the freezer

I could rant for a long time about the uberification of food delivery. Even places offering "in house" food delivery usually end up using on demand uber eats drivers anyway. Then they'll have the audacity to mark everything up 30%, charge a card surcharge, service fee, bag fees, priority delivery fee, on top of a delivery fee. Places that manage their own deliveries with hourly employees, not "iNdEpEnDeNt CoNtRaCtOrS" goes in my good books

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It’s the same in Japan! Smallest pizza you can imagine at 3-5x the price