The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
Ok but this kind of stuff is usually given to the place as promo gifts since they have a contract to supply the drinks.
Those bar ans restaurant owners all over the world aren't always big fans of Heineken, but if they give you Parasols for your terrace in summer, you're gonna put them up.
I remember seeing these things everywhere growing up 20+ years ago. Nowadays there are much fewer of them for some reason.
Breweries are more frugal and don't give much stuff away anymore. It also didn't help that representatives of the brewery would drive into towns and see their parasols at houses everywhere.
Pretty much every single bar/cafe I see in the Netherlands has these branded parasols, and the vast majority are beer brands (Heineken, Brand, Hertog Jan, Jupiler are all ones I regularly see)
They can probably buy them cheap from the brewery, or the bars are outright owned by the brewery.
I heard this from a bar owner I know, he had the experience with Grolsch that they could freeby him a few kegs of beer once in a while but not give merchandise other than small stuff.
There are companies that give away restaurant furniture for free in exchange for advertising on the table. For a mom and pop restaurant or B&B that is just starting, that furniture is a landline. Most of the time the advertisers are local.
Now, if this is a corpo, wolf lodge, Marriot resort, then yeah, fuck 'em
Hate this crap.
In what country is this ski resort? :)
Cerro Chapelco, Argentina
A good reason to carry markers
Yes, and it's the choice of the next generation.
I've never been to a ski resort, but Levi Ski Resort is all Audi ads:
Lucky Southern Hemispherian! It's been scorching hot here in the NorHem for two months straight. (June was of course more gay than straight.)
We‘ll be picking up the baton soon, stay strong!
