Outraged that if I don’t want to make my own food or drink, the price of someone else’s labor to make it for me is added in?

People were outraged, when this was news years ago.

The frog has been boiled and has been dead for sone time.

I can't keep track of all the things I'm outraged about anymore. It's too much.

I don't pitch a fit online, I just don't use them.

Why don't you boycott it and quit buying things that aren't worth the price? Seriously, people aren't outraged at this because convenience has value which means it costs.

The way to attack this problem is with robust antitrust enforcement. Where there are obscene markups there should be increased competition to provide the good/service which drives the price down. When that doesn't happen it's because something is stopping competition.

I don't get mad at shit like this, I just don't buy.

Rage gets you nothing from these pricing schemes. Letting the company go broke does.

I solved this problem, with regards to coffee, permanently for myself by getting a Timemore S3 and an Aeropress Go. All said that $200 CAD invested 5 years ago has save me hundreds in coffee bills, and now I can make a fresh cup at the campsite, road side, anywhere. All I need is hot water.

I don't think most people know enough about convenience pricing to be outraged about it.

The whole system of personalised pricing is designed to be unnoticeable to the general public or even make you think you're paying less.

On a sidenote I don't like the attitude of other commentators saying it's just for Starbucks so it doesn't matter to me, I make my coffee at home. Nothing is stoppin the system of convenience pricing to infect everything that isn't Starbucks and everyone needs to buy groceries.

E: I misunderstood the OP, I thought he was talking about surveillance pricing/ personalised pricing which is something else entirely. Paying more because you want your drink at 3 in the morning or delivered to you or from a smaller store near you is normal and makes sense to me.

I thankfully live in a place where Starbucks isn't the norm, and independent cafes can do coffee better than any chain

It pains me when I see people go to these places that obviously overcharge and underdeliver

fyi tourists go to cafes and pay 4€ for a coffee. meanwhile i grab mine from the supermarket which costs 0,80€

it is possible to pay less; people just don't care.

There's nothing outrage can do. You'll still buy from them since the rich own everything and you still have to eat. You can't outlast a billionaire just on hunger alone. Billionaires own the world. We're just the (soon to be obsolete) chattle that lives in it to increase their profits.

Man there is a technology out there that threatens %90 of peoples jobs, the literacy rate of both youth and adults, steals from artists and makes everything worse.

If people don't stand up against that they won't stand up for anything. Most people are just cattle at this point.

Define "convenience pricing".

Convenience has always come at a price. Your local corner shop will likely stock bread and milk, and it will be a lot more expensive than it is at the massive supermarket a mile or two away.

I'm not outraged at Starbucks over convenience pricing because I haven't noticed it because I don't go to Starbucks.

I'm outraged because Starbucks is anti-union, anti-consumer, and donates money to an authoritarian regime.

making me pay more

No, you're choosing to pay more. Make your own coffee at home. Or hell, don't drink coffee. Nobody's making you do that, either.

A slightly better example might be convenience stores in low-income areas where many people don't have access to transportation to the more affordable grocery stores. The fact that you immediately jumped to Starbucks (something many people consider a treat of sorts) as something you're forced to buy out of convenience shows how privileged you are to have this "problem".

Is 'convenience pricing' like 'surge pricing' for car services? i.e. prices go way up at peak hours?

I am not going to Starbucks, because fuck that corporate US shit. I am happily paying $10 to a local kebab place, because I earn about $15/h after taxes and insurance, and there is no way I am going to make a decent kebab with fries in under an hour, plus it helps some random Arab guy earn a living, so why shouldn't I?

And it penalises vulnerable people eg spme disabled, elderly, people with kids etc.

why aren't people outraged in general?

they're overwhelmed and discouraged because their outrage to previous things did nothing to solve the problem.

outrage is like gunpowder without a shell casing.

I don’t know what you include in convenience pricing but I probably don’t do it.

I am outraged over grocery/food delivery prices. My mom is mobility impaired so delivery is a lot more than merely a convenience, yet she can’t afford to spend huge amounts

Time is money.

It's not like expensive convenience has a monopoly. If you don't want to pay more, do it yourself.

I boycott things all the time. I also have friends who seem to not care at all. One of my friends considers herself really politically minded, but still eats at McDonald's, gets her daily Starbucks, orders on Amazon, shops and target and uses ChatGPT as her therapist. I've tried to point out the irony, but she gets incredibly defensive. I think some people don't care about anything but convenience. In this day and age, with social media, it made everyone the star of their own personal movie in their head. If things don't directly impact them, even if they like to talk the talk, they're not willing to walk the walk.

It actually does piss me off when I go to a place where I know the price of something and it's changed(increased). Like a gallon of store brand tea was 2.50 a couple weeks ago now the same tea is over 3.50. I'm not sure if it's from the smart tag or diesel prices.

A good form of protest I've decided is to leave a bunch of shit that was "too expensive" unchecked on the stand before the scanner

Reason why the Europeans finally reacted and the AmeriKans continue to do nothing.

People make the choice to buy overpriced coffee at places like Starbucks. The excuse "I'm too tired to make my own coffee" is just ridiculous.