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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (5 children)

other countries deliver most things using motorbikes, it always sounded ridiculous to me to use a car to deliver food

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 25 points 3 days ago

OOP has no idea what they're talking about, in NYC too all food deliveries come by bike, and in the large majority of cases it's an ebike

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago

Most food deliveries in NYC happen on two wheels.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nicer in the winter to use a car. And depending on the type of service, these might otherwise be used as personal cars

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your personal car doesn't make 50 deliveries in a day though, so that equation won't work out.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

?? I'm talking about the delivery people owning those cars and using them as personal cars after work, so they're not being bought just for deliveries

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

its also expensive, if you calculate the maintenance /insurance and gas into your vehicles. thats why there isnt more deliveries services for instore shopping outside of a few.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

To be fair, most drivers have multiple ongoing deliveries (and space for them). So it's not quite one car per burrito