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Time is money.
It's not like expensive convenience has a monopoly. If you don't want to pay more, do it yourself.
Exactly. I'm mostly amazed at how widespread it is, because damn that's a lot of people paying inflated prices I never would.
Even if every person prepared their own food and drinks 99% of the time we'd still have restaurants and coffee shops.
Mostly with convenience pricing I'm thinking about things like how a convenience store can be next to a supermarket and charge you a 20% markup on the exact same item, and people pay because they can't be bothered going into the grocery.
People are beyond lazy, they're willing to break laws and impede other people and their safety in order to avoid walking 35 meters
A convenience store next to a supermarket isn't very convenient unless the supermarket is huge. Most convenience stores tend to be closer to you and stay open more hours than supermarkets. I'm ok paying more for that. Convenience stores here are run by neighborhood people, supermarkets are run by rich businessmen. Starbucks is not that kind of shop though.
Convenience stores where I am are generally franchises, and some are literally in the mall 30 seconds walk away from the grocery. Same opening hours, same location, etc.
Not sure what's the point to them then. If you're at the mall you're already inconvenienced
My point exactly! They exist only to serve people who can't be arsed to go into the grocery to get something.
Then why would that bother you if no one is really being inconvenienced?
At no point did I say I was being bothered. I just cannot fathom how enough people are willing to pay the markup that this is a business model.
This doesn’t work for stuff like tickets where there is a convenience fee for them to not print you a physical ticket. So you’re paying for their convenience.
Well, how do I calculate if the time-money I save on preparing food > price money ai give up for said food?
Just see how much you get paid an hour and divide that by minutes.
Then see how much the same food costs at a grocery store plus how long it took you to prep cook and wash dishes vs how much it cost to buy it at a restaurant and how long you had to wait for it
For me it was about making things simpler. We bought a dual level countertop oven that I use for like 90% of our meals. I season and put proteins in the bottom tray and then prep some veggies and toss them in the top tray, then 20 mins later we have a meal. If you use foil you basically only wash your plates and forks.
if you buy multiple meals worth of groceries at a time its just as quick to get home and make a meal as it would be to drive by a place and pick up food. If you make a big meal like a huge pot of spaghetti then even faster each subsequent day.