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Doordash deserves it's fate (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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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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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, doordash can gdiaf. Local burger joint only does delivery through doordash, but adds 20% on top of the base price to cover the fees doordash change them (fair enough), then doordash adds the delivery fee they charge me on top of that as well. They double dip on fees by changing both the restaurant and the customer, what should be a fairly affordable lunch when I don't have time to make something or go out and get it myself would end up being stupid expensive

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

These apps will die slowly until the companies can switch to self driving electric cars.

Once they become common/cheap enough that a pizza place can afford one or two self driving cars doing delivery the prices on these things will absolutely crash.

For pizza, I wouldn't be surprised if it went a step further and the pizza was made and cooked by a robot inside the vehicle while it drives around. Only needing to go restock and recharge every few hours.

Not needing a retail location or almost any staff would make the whole thing super cheap to operate.

In the meantime fuck all food delivery.

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I wished I could live in this fairy tale world where a driverless car won't be vandalized/stripped for parts

Like you'd be paying 30 bucks to basically have an unsupervised car show up at your location that's totally not gonna result in a lot of trouble and cost a shit ton

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

You say unsupervised, but they have as many cameras and sensors on them than your average military drone at this point. They can (and will) transmit this data live if they detect negative interactions.

It's not like people don't have unsupervised access to cars without people in them right now. People park and leave their cars alone all the time.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

Who’s gonna vandalize it when everybody biological is confined to their home for safety? Not like any of the interhome bots could ever escape their programming without the police bots disabling them immediately.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, cos the way the self driving thing will be structured will make it pretty much impossible to actually buy one - they'll be crazy expensive to buy outright, but you can absolutely lease one - oh but if you are using it for commercial purposes it's more expensive cos... insurance or something, oh and don't forget the per-km fees, and the servicing fee, and the battery wear fee, and ....

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

Self driving car companies benefit from more total units on the road compared to limiting service and charging more. It will only take one of the companies selling outright to customers for the entire industry to be forced to drop prices.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

What is standing in the way of an open alternative to these services? Both customers and workers getting a terrible deal, you'd think anyone would switch to something else at the first opportunity

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

average Treatlerite

[+] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world -28 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (11 children)

I don’t know your personal situation, but people need to learn to cook. Even a meal kit with 3 meals six plates all delivered to your door can cost less than that one order for two pizzas. Your local grocery has pre made pizza dough, sauce, and cheese, and can be cooked in less time than it takes to wait for delivery.

Hahaha. Just to really make my point: Safeway was offering premade medium sized pizzas for $4. You’re getting scammed.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago

Don't judge ppl for not cooking. It takes time. It takes effort. It takes more than the attention span of a squirrel. A lot of people just can't any more. Depressed people, old people, exhausted people, busy people. Some flats don't even come with kitchens and some people are forced to move somewhere. It also, doesn't stop with the cooking, you have to clean up afterwards as well. Cooking can be fun, but it can also be chore.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, if you want pizza that's even shittier than chain deliveries, sure, you can do that.

Let's be real. A home oven and premade dough might be cheaper, but it ain't good pizza.

You can get a pizza stone (or steel), or do a cast iron pizza and end up fine, that's for sure. But if you're using that premade dough, even Caesar's is going to be as good. That's not mentioning that the sauces available in jars aren't all created equal at all, or that it's a dice roll if the cheese is okay or not.

Even dominos and pizza hut are better than a cheap home made pie. You want a good home made pizza, you're spending roughly the same, but now you have to learn how to hey it right. The learning curve isn't horrible or anything, but it's there.

Most people that want a pizza want something decent, or they'd just throw in a digiorno's or whatever. Mind you, calling most chain pizza decent is a stretch of the term, but that's another issue entirely since a solid pizzeria isn't exactly a guarantee outside of cities

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

Just saying, this was made with premade dough in a residential oven. It was fantastic and cost about $7 total.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

Even dominos

Hey let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I'll give you Pizza Hut, but fuck Dominoes and their nasty excuse for pizza.

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