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"Dynamic Pricing / Surge Pricing" – the fast track to brand sabotage. Picture this: a customer strides in during the lunch rush, their only respite from work, only to be met with an agonizing wait in an already snaking line. They sacrifice their precious hour break, only to endure an additional 40 minutes in line, forced to cough up extra cash because it's a peak hour. And what do they get in return? A lacklustre product hastily put together by rushed staff. It's a grim joke. The only winner here? The brand, raking in extra fees. But the customer? They're left seething, vowing never to return. Meanwhile, the cashier, bombarded with complaints about slow service, throws in the towel. It's a downward spiral – all courtesy of "Dynamic Pricing." It's not just a bad idea; it's a disaster waiting to happen.

It takes patience. It took me 2yrs to find my kids.

So this is actually the second time he's apologized. Chris Rock doesn't seem too concerned. The dislike between these two names goes back a fair bit...Tbh, every time Will Smith makes another apology or does anything regarding this it just elevates Rock a bit more...lol For all the Smith haters...They are finally happy because now they can be happy because they didn't like him or Pinkett-Smith anyways...

The real tragedy was the audience of A-list actors that did nothing when it happened. It just shows Hollywood for what it is...No one had anything to say or do because everyone had to be on their best behavior for television so they could make them bucks! The Oscars have terrible ratings and while the next ones will turn in a few more viewers overall they are losing their value for TV viewers.

I was married at Itsukushima Shrine. It's a beautiful place.

This product while still in use is being phased out by PMI for their TERRA product which is synthetic. If tobacco didn't smell, had no traces of smell, etc... It would ultimately be a more popular product. It wouldn't matter if 50% of users died from it. Tobacco is a killer, no matter the shape.

Someone needs to re-cover this. It's time. Get people outside on their feet.

While autonomous delivery has been going on in the USA for a few years, I feel like Japan is about to unveil one of its new core service trends. Japan is a country that takes a long time to build something that will be a self-operating machine...and then once it's completed the whole service is usually very cleverly considered and robust. So I imagine this will finally become a thing.

Uber Eats will be launching two autonomous delivery pilots in LA and based on the success of that America we will see if Americans can truly accept autonomous delivery...Japan, on the other hand, will definitely accept this as they begin to brace for change with the elderly population starting to significantly rise. It is inevitable to see that Rakuten does this to capture the demand of an aging consumer market.

NFT’s could be useful as digital tools for record keeping, identity verification, medical documentation, legal ownership of property or real estate….etc.. but there are no services that utilize this digital asset for those types of situations.

and who wants to bet this is untaxed income. So whatever they are making isn’t going into a bank account and it’s all being saved inconspicuously to avoid having to pay anything to a government office. Living with parents etc… The whole thing is a strategy to work the every corner of the room.

Ghosn literally took Nissan out a what was a massively failing auto company and restored their brand. He brought the company back with a real determination that few posses and never got a fair shake after he saw the future of the brand long term. Japanese execs that didn’t want the brand to become a primarily foreign owned enterprise after internal talks foreshadowed a move to Renault as the primary shareholder became a plot to overthrow the revitalized car company and keep its blood Japanese.

If the company became a over 50% foreign owned one, Japanese business and national perspective would see it as a failure and sign of the times, that Japan is for sale and foreigners will inevitably take over Japan. It would signify another nail in the coffin to Japan’s growing socio-economic problems and cultural shift.

The implications of the brand not being Japanese anymore would tear at the fabric of Japan’s national identity. That’s why this circus continues and Japan will not stop to try and prosecute him.

I read everyone’s comments and appreciate everyone’s point of view. Thank you.

It’s exactly what someone might say from the outside looking into Japan. Yes I agree, it is obvious. But I’m thankful for him to say something. To point it out, to cast a spotlight on it even if it’s for a moment. Many people outside the land of the rising sun, still just don’t know much about Japan.

I have raised four children in Japan and felt the challenge of it from day 1 because of cultural barriers in place.

Maybe this is the moment to collectively bring awareness on this topic and do something, instead of sitting in the stands commenting. We collectively rise up to help Japan overcome this great national dilemma.

And no I’m not some crazy person. I just believe it takes good people with a desire to have change, will it forward.

@theResident..LOL

We have not entered the third year...lol.

You are funny. 816 divided by 365...lol is not 3 years....lol...

Night school!!!!! So funny!

This headline is inaccurate and should be edited. The fact that it got put out there is just abysmal.

The fact is it was December 12, 2019 when the first cases were reported in Wuhan. It has been 816 days since that date, which is 2.2years. We have not entered a "third-year" yet!

This headline is premature.

This is just plain as day bad.

If anyone had foresight about this they would see a news story about this in the future….maybe in a couple years…something like someone miscalculated, or there was some sort of discharge negligence, or there was a faulty pipe or whatever connection which resulted excessive discharge of radioactive water and so on…the list of possible problems…smh.

Logic is clearly being thrown out the proverbial window!

And the worst part of all of this, is the people of this great country and those who’ve endured the most hardships from this catastrophe won’t really get to know the whole truth.

Why decommission it now?

What do they stand to gain?

@boduka....hunh ????

what are you talking about started in 2018?

Ghosn brought Nissan out bankruptcy with the Skyline GTR and was man responsible for bringing Renault into involvement with Nissan. Guy was a national hero until he was thrown under the bus. You need to check your history...

This would be a terrible mistake. Hospitals likely need 6 - 8 months to clear this up. It's a terrible situation, but people going back to work with a R- Naught value still at 2.2 would be incredibly damaging. Japan would not recover.

カドノアリサ様,

状況をお伝えいただきありがとうございます。

宜しくお願い致します。

Dear Arisa Kadono,

Thank you speaking out.

Please take care.

Everyone is responsible for their own choices and risks. I’m sorry but playing the foreigner card is crap! Many Japanese alike are struggling. And even many Japanese families where there are mothers with four kids. I have four children myself but sorry playing they card doesn’t change anything.

Everyone has got some problem a result of this pandemic. Saying foreigners are ones who are in the crosshairs first is complete and utter crap! Lastly people who work for automakers in Japan are usually paid fairly decent wages compared to everywhere else. Additionally employees who have been working for Japanese automakers get bonuses twice a year and frankly if they have been employed for a few years they should be living far above the poverty line.

I know I sound like a jerk but, we are all adults! Act like it! If you can help someone like the people mentioned who need help, by all means do so! But playing the victim card is a waste of time.

LIke most parents...we have both or all three, or whatever...lol But arguably enough because Disney owns pretty much everything...Jeez, the own a 51 percent stake in seven holdings Japan ( 711)...So there is no way to know how deep their reach is and how far they can go...They own most of the filming companies..and so on and so fourth..I know this because I used to work for Disney so its not really an if, its more like when. When I was working at the original studio office ;) 5 - 6 yrs ago they already had been working in taking over Netflix. So its really, what is move after that...Disney is not going to take grown up films away, just to be clear. They would never do that.

After this is all said and done...Fair shake or not... Will the public really want to purchase a Nissan. I think what this does it rip apart the brand make people lose confidence.

If Ghosn is on the winning side of this, it's going to make Nissan look even worse. They spent 20 years rebuilding a failing auto brand. It took less than a year to destroy that hard work.

To the Author Evie Lund,

While I think yes what you have written is mostly accurate. It's not the actual reason. The actual reason is time. Japanese get only half the required time in their school education to learn English. To learn English and speak it statistically its proven that a person needs approx. 1500/hrs of study. Unfortunately, Japanese just don't have the support of their education system to give them the hours that are required. They are being falsely led to believe they can do it, and that it can be done in half the time than is needed.We haven't even begun to talk about how culture affects language and fact that while one group something "A" way the other does something "B" way in their language affecting the language used. Japanese on the other hand is one of four languages that require more than 2000hrs of study to speak and use. It is one of the hardest.

@Harry_Gatto the reason it was designed that way is the same reason supermarkets are designed the way they are, to keep people in them. IKEA has an exceptional experience strategy for keeping people in their showrooms and buying markets. They quite honestly created the experience market and showroom centric design situation. So although you might find it annoying, they have done it for a reason.

And whats funny here is that if you take a minute to compare prices of the same car sold in the USA VS. Japan, japanese pay on average 25% more for the same car as Americans do. Random selection.i.e Toyota FJ Cruiser same make and model same stock features. USA PRICE$27'130 (MSRP)in Yen 261万JAPAN315万 [($32'498 US dollars) MSRP]It makes no sense!!! Compare any car sold in Japan even japanese brand and its gar more expensive in japan to have. So even with the price fixing its still cheaper but eill get xheaper still in the West and make wonder how japanese can be so oblivious to this problem.

Just came from Compton and Inglewood. I can't imagine it's that bad. Kids take a bus to avoid one street block at night if there's too much heat on the streets so they don't become a story in the newspaper if they get that far.

The only thing the US has said, is what side they're on and that if they break this injunction then if they are in the flag state of the USA they will be arrested. In international waters or 'high seas' they are in free waters. Only piracy is subject to special persecution.

ON with Apple! Down with Samsung!!! Yeaaahhhh!

I think when people panic they miss a tremendous amount of information. It would be an easy situation to panic on board of a large ship.

He decided to leave the party this morning, I believe.

They have a chance to move on from the typology they discovered and create something truly inspirational right now. If they can survive, and discover something for people to find personal value in they will overcome what's currently holding them back.

@Fadamor I think you are trying to tell everyone who reads this that your trying to be different and that mac is somehow the ultimate mainstream.

Let's be honest here, Apple has a very small take in the computer market. Approximately 8 to 9 percent. The IPhone market is another story. Steve Jobs along with all those who worked for him before he died, worked to make and change technology and the way people interact with it in their daily lives. He brought a deep rich narrative and understanding by creating a tool that people can relate to and value.

Keep telling yourself that your special...See how that works out. Cause no one cares if your trying to be this antimac person. That's not what this is about. It's about Apple's right to defend their creativity and originality. How would you feel if you created something completely original and someone else copied your idea and tried to sell it. Not to mention they helped you build yours and saw how good it was, and then said "Hey, let's make the same thing and take their business from them." That is infringment and unethical corporate practice.

Grow UP!