Fuck Doordash, fuck Uber Eats, fuck Skip the Dishes. These greedy motherfuckerswant me to pay a delivery fee, a "convinience fee", AND up charge me on my food, and act like triple dipping into my pocket isn't a fucking crime. Then they have the gall to tell me that waiting an hour and a half for my food while my driver sits in a random-ass parking lot to receive luke-warm food is acceptable delivery time and service and ask for a fucking tip.

And worse, no one wins! The restaurants hate it because they're paying fees out the ass and receiving hate for the delivery services failures, the driver's hate it because they're not being given a fair wage, and the end consumer hates it because they're paying literally 1.5x the cost of already inflating food prices! The only winner is corporate of whatever company you're using, all to save you a, what, 10-15 minute drive?

Fuck em', I will hop in my car and go pick up my food every single day of the week. I'm never too lazy to tell a bullshit service like those to go fuck itself.

[–] abk16@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there could exist a solution for services like these, but decentralized, as to cut out the greedy middleman as much as possible. I mean, lemmy sort of is the application of this concept. Sure, there's still costs with running servers etc., but the protocol regulates much of the interaction.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

The company (Uber, Instacart, etc) is basically:

An app for drivers/shoppers.
An app for consumers.
The servers to facilitate communication.
A subcontracted call center in India for support and customer service.
A third-party payroll processor.
A handful of administrative people and techs to keep it running. Plus some shareholders to take the money.

So not counting drivers and contracted services, it's practically a small business. Seems easy enough to emulate.

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