The lack is itself a reference to how many times OP has 69d (zero)

All of the "buy now pay later" or pay in installment schemes/apps popping up, supposedly they are popular but I don't get it, it is just a worse credit card.

If kid's mortgage is the one your kids continue to pay after your death, then I'm sure we'll see it soon.

Kids items are generally not available to adults in any form.

And this is the innocuous form of it. Places who don't serve children often are generally happy to make their profits off of adults and worry less about income from the odd child (especially Starbucks).

If you want to see real tiered pricing, look at all the fast food apps. The purpose of those is to extract as much money from you as possible. Those who don't want to deal with them pay double, and they don't lose much business from those who refuse because they're often willing to use the apps.

Eh, I have similar feelings, but there is a reason for the wedding price increase. As a florist once told me, there's a reasonable amount of 'oops' that can happen with a regular customer, and they're often accommodating. Only 11 roses came to the door on valentine's day, but they ordered 12? An apology and a discount is often more than enough to make the customer happy. If a bride doesn't get a perfect flower arrangement, it's already too late.

Extend that to the other sorts of merchants you'll be dealing with at a wedding, and look at the cost increase as buying super, ahead-of-time insurance to ensure that everything is perfect. For something like the cake or photos, that means you have to dedicate more time or resources than usual to make sure absolutely nothing goes wrong (enough to notice). Two photographers instead of the single photographer for a corporate shindig, three cakes baked just in case one of them turns out slightly flat, that sort of thing.

Nice.

goes bankrupt