You can still use the drive through if you like. Just mention your order code instead of telling them your whole order.
This seems like a great way to set prices according to how munch money they think you have or based on what you normally purchase. You might end up being charged more for the same items than they're charging the person who pulls in after you.
No discount on their shitty food is worth the intimate details of your life. They sure aren't collecting all that information because they want to make less money off of you. Stop giving them the valuable information they need to take more of your money.
The mom-and-pop places that people who make a fuss about these kind of business practices tend to love do all the things that those people claim to hate - track their customers, try to figure out how much money they have, offer special treatment to particular customers, notice where else their customers spend their time - so I've never quite got what exactly people are objecting to. But hey, if you don't want the discount, more for me.
I can't speak to IOS but it will on android devices (with some limitations https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background...) If you give an app permission to access nearby wifi devices it can track you that way as well. If you give an app permission to use bluetooth it can track your location using that too.
> They'll profile you based on your credit card info whether you use the app or not.
They might, but they'll have a lot less data to connect with your purchase history. You consent to a lot more data collection by installing their app than you do just by walking into their store and buying something,
> The mom-and-pop places that people who make a fuss about these kind of business practices tend to love do all the things that those people claim to hate - track their customers, try to figure out how much money they have, offer special treatment to particular customers - so I've never quite got what exactly people are objecting to.
No one wants to be tracked by mom-and-pop places either. All this data collection means that you aren't getting a discount, you're actually being screwed over and the data they collect will continue to be used against you for the rest of your life in any way that they think will let them take more of your money or would otherwise benefit them. They aren't collecting that data and paying for the collecting/storage/use of that data for your benefit.
"Special treatment" doesn't mean what you think it does. This kind of surveillance leads to discriminatory pricing (see for example https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-special-price-just-f... and wendy's recent attempt at surge pricing) which companies are desperate to get consumers to accept because it stands to make them much much richer at your expense. Don't fall for this! I promise that you won't feel like you're getting "special treatment" if they get their way.
Note that consenting to an agreement that the privacy commissioner deems illegally broad means consumers can "consent", and still allow TH to be sued and told to cut that shit right out.
[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-app-report-1.64...
That is exactly what happens if you don't use the app.
Junk foods like McD’s slowly destroys your health.
When possible avoid encouraging others to support companies like McD’s who are a net negative for the world. [0]
[0] https://act.greenpeace.org.au/mcdonalds
Edit: clarity
Maybe you really are getting %15 off on your french fries today, but you'll pay for those fries again and again every time they (or someone else) uses the data they collected against you. That data never goes away. It'll be used against you for the rest of your life. They only collect it in the first place because they know that it'll let them take more of your money from you. What a short term/short sighted "deal".
Our actions together will, so let's act together to reject discriminatory pricing and invasive surveillance where we can, for as long as we still can.
That’s what the army of lawyers is for.
People always talk about apps "selling your data," and I can understand it in cases like Facebook (and Meta platforms in general) and Google, but in this case, how would it happen that McDonalds "makes millions off all the data you consent to giving them?"