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2 pizzas, a small order of breadsticks, and wanted to splurge and get cinnamon sticks.

Pizzas are a "Buy one get one deal!" at 13 bucks a pizza. Figured what the hell, I'll splurge on desert then with the deal. Get to checkout... hold on a minute.... 50 dollars for pizza?! Wait a minute 80 dollars after fees and taxes?!

Usually I only use Doordash for finding something, then I order direct from the store. I just saw the sweet "buy one get one" deal and thought eh, fine I'm here. Right, that's why I stopped using door dash. I'm not spending 80 dollars on freaking pizza. I'll just go pick it up and spend a quarter of that price.

At least I would have saved the $3 dollar delivery fee. Phew. Thanks DoorDash.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 minutes ago

Ive deleted all those apps. They really got greedy. And the crazy part is I think I remember the government giving them money for grocery delivery.

I dont get it.

[–] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

“Estimated taxes” what is that for bullshit? You can just calculate how much the tax should be.

I know it’s not how it works in the US, but if they advertise it for 13$ they should sell it for 13$ including tax.

OP. How is it 53?

13 for the two pizzas. How much are the breadsticks and dessert?

As someone who is disabled and known people who are disabled, we don't have the luxury of going out to eat as it is incredibly hard on us, I don't use them but if I want to get nice food from a restaurant I really don't have a choice besides delivery and there's not a lot of places that do delivery without these apps (and some places hide that it's doordash and say it's there own)

For one of the people I knew in the past who couldn't cook there own food because of there disabilities, they heavily relied on doordash type services and they barley ate because being disabled means your incredibly poor, but this anti human society doesn't care about disabled people.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago

You did it! No delivery fee! You're so lucky!

Oh hey... Unrelated, but let me get $20 in "fees" please.

Really though, congrats on that delivery discount though, you're really coming out in top, putting me through the ringer, bud!

Even taking away all these delivery services I hate having food delivered as you don’t know how long it’s sat in the car whilst they deliver other orders. The fries are soggy and it’s just not good.

I use those sites to browse the menu then i call the restaurant, which is cheaper, then go and collect it myself.

These services have also ruined fast food. McD although shit is convenient on the commute home It’s just filled with Uber eats and Just eat drivers and really makes it slow now to get food. Then they have these screens to order on so you can’t even get hold of a member of staff to ask for salt cause they’re too cheap to leave it out like they used to.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 36 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand how all of these delivery services are so popular when everyone is saying how high the cost of living is. People have money to blow on delivery fees?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just fools and their money being parted.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm missing something. If the two pizzas were 13, then the sticks + desert were 40? Then tax and service fee on top (40% lol)

Yeah I’m confused about this too.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 23 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

My sister uses doordash and there's always something wrong. Yet she insists on trying again and again, and I can't understand why.

I have never used them or Uber or others like this, and refuse to do so. They exploit their workers, they charge exorbitant fees, and when something's wrong, it's nobody's fault.

If I want food, I go get it myself. I'm my own delivery boy! And contrary to a lot of people delivering food, I will not park on a sidewalk or in a bike lane.

[–] mwproductions@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

I have a friend who hates grocery shopping, so they get their food delivered, but then constantly complains about nonsensical substitutions. They're not wrong that the substitutions don't make sense, but there's a really easy way to ensure you get exactly what you want...

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Me seeing the pic: Oh, doordash just dropped the delivery fee.....wait, $50??? What the fuck is he ordering in one meal that I could get a weeks worth of groceries???

reads text in topic

Oh, good. For a second I thought he was an idiot....

I said....2 days before the superbowl....knowing what I'm about to spend......

[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

$50 for a week worth of groceries? Either you are posting from 2003 or the developing world.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

You can definitely get a week worth of groceries for that in the UK or Europe. Nothing fancy, only ingredients, but good nutritional food and enough of it.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 minutes ago

You can do that here in the US too (for now). But the pre-packaged junk food is really expensive and that’s what people want.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

What are you eating that is costing more than $50 a week? You buy a loaf of bread. $3. 3 or 4 packs of lunch meats. Call it $12. Pack of cheese singles. $3. So you're up to $18. You now have sandwiches for every lunch this week. Now buy 1 pack of chicken, varies between 10 and 12 dollars for 4-5 chicken breasts. Let's call it $11 for 4. That's $29. Grab a box of cereal. Call that $3. Up to $32. Grab a pack of porkchops. Usually 4 in a pack for about $10. $42. Grab 2 bottles of pasta sauce, $8. And a pack of spagetti for $3. Now grab a bag of potatoes, call that $6. And a bag of oranges, or a bag of apples. $6. Grand total $65, and I even went overboard. That's like a week and a half, but I'm also assuming your kitchen is totally empty. Otherwise, you might only need 1 bottle of pasta sauce. You might already have half a bag of fruit left from last week. You might still have half a box of cereal left. I also said a LOT of lunch meat for 1 week.

On top of that, I bought meals for every meal. I don't eat 3 meals a day. I eat 1. Sometimes 2. Today I've had 0, and I am hungry, but it's also bedtime within an hour. So I'm just going to wait until I wake up.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

You can get a weeks worth of groceries for 80 bucks? Doubt (x).

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cooking for yourself and not eating out ever, and my bill from Aldi rarely is above $50, just buy seasoning as you go. I make a week's worth of food on one day a week, freeze most of it, and then just reheat it in a microwave.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. I'd make a tray of lasagna, in my bachelor days, and it would last me about 4 days. Of course I'd be really tired of lasagna by then lol

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Man.......I just spent a month cooking chicken, and freezing it. My freezer is FULL of frozen chicken in ziplock baggies. I'd buy 6 packs of chicken, which have 4-5 pieces each. I'd cook 1 pack a night for a week, and on my off day go buy 6 more packs for next week.

Then I'd throw them in the freezer individually in ziplocks.

I work Sunday-Thrusday. So on Friday, I pull 5 chickens down to the fridge to thaw, and that's ready by sunday. Then every day I just grab 1 chicken to bring to work. Aldis also sell lunch meats, but they have reusable containers. So I bought these condiment cups with sealable lids, fill each of them with BBQ sauce. Put the chicken still frozen in the ziplock into the former lunchmeats tupperware. Then put the bbq sauce up in. Seal the tupperware, and stack them 5 high like that. Then Sunday before work, I just reach in, grab one tub, and throw it in my bag. My bag also has some fruit, and some little snacks inside another lunchmeats tupperware. Just grab 2 tubs. throw them in my bag, and it's ready for me.

Adulting!

......cries.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

You can get a weeks worth of calories plus a multivitamin for $80

[–] Stez827@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 7 hours ago

The USA. What are you buying 20lb bag of rice and 20lbs of beens?

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 57 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

Stop using it. It's that simple.

Gig economy work is horrible for the workers, and incredibly exploitative. The workers frequently make less than minimum wage.

I refuse to order from any restaurant that doesn't do their own delivery. If enough other people do the same, these places will curl up and die very quickly.

They said they don’t use it and only use it to browse the menu.

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 55 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Your driver would have been paid a total of ~~$6.50~~ $5.00 on that order.

Thank you for canceling.

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 33 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah, every time I think about getting Doordash, they sucker me in with promises of $1 delivery fees, etc. Then I take the time to find out what I want, put it in my cart, get excited, and...then I see the final price.

That's when I close out of my browser and go preheat my oven so that I can put in a frozen pizza.

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