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I remember seeing a video about a similar service in the Netherlands for delivered groceries.
They deliver by bike, are faster by bike.
...and still are a bit of a controversial issue.
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I worked as an engineer at a food delivery company and I almost never used my own companies app, these companies charge both the customer and the restaurant and the restaurants raise the prices of their menu on the app to compensate for it, plus the delivery takes a long ass time and the food arrives cold. And the business is still mostly unprofitable and these companies stay afloat from investments while they suffer losses.
It's a natural consequence of decoupling value from productivity; and instead relying on data harvesting for predictive analytics as an alternative for anything truly valuable.
We're living in a world in which the wealthy keep coming up with ways to hand money back and forth, while creatinf new schemes to cut out the working class from any resulting 'value' creation.
AI will fuck over workers just like every other technological marvel that preceded it.
Never really thought of getting food delivered, with prices like that I shall continue not to.
A lot of people are bad with money and are way too ready to pay too much for convenience. This service has uses, but if you aren’t tied by need to use it, it’s pretty wasteful expenditure.
need to use it, it’s pretty wasteful expenditure.
At home, when we moved, we ordered a few times. The food ended up cold, late, wrong, AND 75% more expensive.
We used to order GH and DD at work a lot, they just priced themselves out of the market. on WFW days, we just either go there together or order form a place that has their own app and one person picks up for everyone.
We have a pizza place in the neighborhood that delivers to us for free, they're expensive but end up being the same price as ordering other places through GH/DD. When we want something outside the hood, I just go and get it. We get it faster, hotter, it's right and it's cheaper.
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I've never ordered food to my door. Not even pizza. The rare times I order takeout pizza I pick it up myself. Unless you're a senior citizen it just seems so wasteful and lazy and comically expensive to have food delivered to you. I mean I get that we're absolutely going to destroy this planet, but holy shit are we speedrunning it.
In my area, I'm going to have to drive 15 minutes one way to the nearest place to pick anything up, so it's not much different than having it delivered. We have never gotten delivery out here, since no one delivers but the third party ones (DD/UE), but someone delivering out here could possibly waste less fuel than I would to pick it up if they end up bring multiple orders out here.
They don’t deliver on e-bikes in NYC? That’s 90% of deliveries here in dense-ish urban environments.
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A lot of these are delivered by bike nowadays, no?
Edit: since people keep asking without reading below, I mean specifically in NYC.
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It's kind of wild how the standard fare of pizza and chinese food delivery was absorbed by gig work. They used to be employees of the restaurant.
Not sure about other places but here when you order pizza, it is MUCH cheaper to call the restaurant directly and have them deliver it. It's usually faster too.
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Technology should have made restaurant deliverer's lives easier and increased their efficiency. They should have made more money and worked less.
Instead we got gig workers who are basically impoverished wage slaves. They get no rights and no benefits. What is worse is whatever temporary profits they made have been sucked up by corporations by now.
This is a great case study for how to not use technology and how Tech Bros are not disrupters, they are destructors who profiteer, choke out, and then destroy markets.
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...if you think delivery is too expensive, maybe don't get your food delivered, then? Just a thought.
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The expectation comes from SoftBank investing billions into Uber to kickstart the ride share industry.