IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.

Something fishy is going on.

that benefit will never happen

You know that arctic apples and innate potatoes both use the exact same PPO silencing tech, and have been on the market for years? Innate potatoes also contain less asparagine, the amino acid that turns into the carcinogen acrylamide when frying.

Do also remember that while these are "GMO", they're not transgenic. They simply have genes shut off - no new genes.

It is not "purely cosmetic in commercial situations". Bananas are one of the most wasted food products on the planet. You very much should care about reducing that. And bananas have largely been locked out of the ready-to-eat market by PPO-related browning because they turn to brown sludge unless you ruin their texture/flavour by treating them in citric/ascorbic acid or sulfur dioxide.

And once again, this has nothing to do with whether the bananas are old or not. Browning is an entirely different process than ripening. PPO vs. ethylene. Entirely different physiological responses. Get rid of PPO, and it still continues the normal aging process - pectin methylesterases and cellulases still break down the cell walls, amylase still converts starches to sugars (which then slowly ferment if given enough time), etc. No impact to normal aging. The impact is to rapid spoilage after peeling.

I mean, apples do last longer than most other produce?

(Though winter squash, it's hard to beat them!)

Once again, for the love of God, read and understand the article: this is NOT ABOUT WHETHER THE BANANAS ARE OLD OR NOT. It's NOT ABOUT WHETHER THEY'RE RIPE OR NOT. It's about THE BROWNING THAT HAPPENS WITHIN HOURS OF YOU REMOVING THE PEEL. Caused by an enzyme in bananas that is generally harmful to the human diet anyway (degrades vitamin C and polyphenols and reduces protein digestibility).

Just did. It also has no clue what the hell you're talking about. So how about instead of saying "Ask an AI" what YOU meant, how about you actually tell me, the person with a BA in horticulture, what the hell you think you're actually talking about?

Yeah, no question about that as well :(

They are in a contractual relationship with that parent corporation and that contract includes a significant amount of cooperation.

Wrong, He tried to reform a communist system. It wasn't working. After the random visit to a US grocery store he lost his faith in communism. Realized reforming the communist state was futile. And decided capitalism was superior.

Marxism provided the economic foundation of the USSR. Lenin proposed Vanguard leadership due to the overwhelmingly rural population.

No, leadership was provided by Lenin's "Vanguard" concept, embodied by the Communist Party.

You misunderstood. Those two events were mentioned because of GP assertion that communism is the solution to the food pricing problem McDonalds presents.

Actually, the underlying economic theory based in marxism.

I have, western and eastern europe. Various capital cities. About the only superiority is mass transit in cities. We truly suck at that. NYC, SF, WDC subways pale in comparison.

Actually it is comical to Americans too. But like the Europeans we also love it, learning its convenience and value.

LOL, why am I not surprised at the lengths you denial goes to. Was Yeltsin somehow duped at his supermarket experience where he learned that superiority of the capitalist economic system. Note also the Chinese Communists also learned the superiority of the the capitalist economic system. Like Yeltsin, choosing not to go down the suicidal marxist path.

World history shows that capitalsm raised people out of poverty, communism pushed them a big step back towards poverty.

The "Year of the Linux Desktop" is finally arriving. Admittedly Linux on the Windows Desktop wasn't quite what we were expecting. :-)

I don't think we have "other restaurants pricing". I think we have each restaurant experimenting with its pricing using guidance from the parent corporation. Each restaurant will discover a different price.

Its not propaganda that the leader of the Soviet Union visited a random US grocery store and lost his faith in communism. It happened.

Other than the Soviet union being fundamentally based on the theories of Marx and Lenin?

Bread lines and empty shelves long predated those events.

Only if you don't watch them. They exist nonetheless.

Actually the US standard of living is higher. Hence the European socialist joy when they visit a USA supermarket. The national government involved in national issues and needs is not socialism in the marxist socialist sense. Neither is a local government involved in local issues and needs.. It all predates Marx even in the USA.

They are still part of the same parent corporation. And there is much legal coordination, sharing of trade secrets, etc as a result.

Another difference is that the two restaurants will not ultimately have the same price. Each will independently determine the willingness to pay of its respective customers and price accordingly.

This sounds more like price experimentation. Franchisees have always been able to have different prices. This is just a new way to determine a different price. Its not like they are directly or indirectly (some ration relationship be tween prices) sharing some price.

So do the corporate owned restaurants.

Are they conspiring, or are they each determining their respective customer base's willingness to pay? I don't think the end result of this new process is a common price, that would not optimize revenue as would each discovering its own customer base willingness to pay

It sounds like corporation has some pricing algorithm to maximize profit, it then tells franchisees what to charge, monitors sales, tunes the prices with experimentation, etc.

Except franchisees are part of the same corporation and are already coordinating in many different ways.

Note "competitors"

"Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels."
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A company doing some sort of price discovery process at different locations, say A/B testing, is something different. Technically, I think its "price experimentation"

"Pricing experimentation is the systematic process of testing different pricing strategies, structures, and price points to determine what maximizes revenue, customer acquisition, and profitability. Rather than guessing at optimal prices, companies run controlled experiments to understand how pricing changes affect customer behavior."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meteroid.com%2Fgloss...

The Fresno example sounds like basic A/B testing