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I figured out how to get my food with NO delivery fee: I get off my fat ass and get it myself. Novel approach, I know.
And sometimes you're too tired for that or want something you can't reasonably make at home. There's nothing wrong with ordering food.
Nothing wrong with it rarely or if you’re disabled, but paying $30 for McDonald’s or whatever on a regular basis is insane
There's zero indication that OP is ordering delivery often, so I'm not sure why you have jumped to that conclusion?
Besides, whether or not ordering delivery often depends on what you're ordering and on your disposable income. McDonald's is far from the only option, plenty of real restaurants offer delivery too these days. If you can afford it, you can probably eat a fairly healthy diet even if you never cook. Not for me, in no small part because I usually enjoy cooking, but I'm not gonna judge people who don't. Doesn't affect me, I'm not gonna go out of my way to be annoyed.
My post was in no way attacking OP. I was just soapboxing about food delivery services that charge insane fees for something which, in my opinion, is mostly useless.
I fully admit I’m being judgmental. And people are free to disagree with me.
"Nothing wrong with ordering food" - correct
But there is something wrong with paying double to have it delivered - it's called wasting money. Do y'all have a lot of money to waste?
I actually order way too much, but it costs like 2 euros to get it delivered with a 5€/month subscription. My time is worth roughly an euro per minute. Anything farther than a 5 minute walk is a net loss to pick up on foot. There's nothing closer than a 30 minute walk there and back. Car also takes fuel to get started
If delivery starts costing me 10 or 20 euros, I'll start walking or driving to pick up my food.
there's nothing wrong with it but it's a luxury service so you shouldn't complain about it being expensive
I'm happy that you are physically able, that you have places within walking distance to pick the food up from, or if not that you own a vehicle and are not vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that would make driving impossible. I hope you reflect on how fortunate you are.
I do, all the time.
My point was that most people are able to procure their own food without paying exorbitant fees for it; in their case, I consider it lazy and wasteful. That’s also my opinion, and people are free to apply their own judgement.
It was a completely reasonable take and everyone understood what you meant.
Only on lemmy would someone try to paint an exploitative middleman like UberEats as a noble service for those unable to journey to the store.
There are actually services that do that and they don't charge a 30% markup. That actually seems even more exploitative and you'd think the other commenter would be enraged at Uber.
Such is the price for a popular top-level comment. I suffer so that those who must always be the contrarian can satisfy their unrelenting urges. Today, it is my internet cross to bear.
Jesus christ. When you piss does it come out like a corkscrew?
DoorDash is a hell of a lot cheaper than catching a DUI charge tho
Yeah, but the DUI also buys you 3 meals a day for 6 months or so.
Normal people have a stocked fridge and are not constantly drunk.
If being drunk seriously affects your shopping schedule, you have an alcohol problem.
Alcohol isn't the only thing you can get a DUI for....there are lots of things that it covers from prescription medication to weed. Anything that negatively impacts your driving ability can potentially lead to a DUI.
Shopping schedule? Bro life is hard and busy, plenty of people are struggling with all kinds of issues that they can’t easily schedule around and depression is it’s own beast.
Look, I don’t order food because of the price and because I don’t want to support that fucked up business model(also because I live in a walkable city) but, and I mean this in the most “I hope you take this as an opportunity to reflect” kinda way, go fuck off with that shit.
How's it look from that high horse you're on?
Me who is physically disabled and can’t leave my house: 👁️👄👁️
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In digest form, I presume?
But the entire point of having it delivered is so you can keep sitting on it.
It is not that easy for everyone. I for example can't afford a car. And restaurants aren't exactly around the corner. So if i want to get food like that, i have to have it delivered.
What about public transport?
5 euros is cheaper for delivery than 15 for a train ticket. Its not that big of a deal honestly. I don't know the pricing in america but its not to bad where i live. The food itself is becoming way to expensive though.
I only order food a few times a year so its no problem.
It's significantly different in America. I think doordash has different payment structures in Europe bcos of laws whereas, in most of America, drivers are paid next to nothing. It's like tipping culture with American service workers, except way worse.
So like, inflated prices (set by the restaurant and optional, but often done to make up for doordash's cut) + delivery fee (pocketed by doordash of course!) + ridiculous tip bcos now I gotta pay this driver's livable wage.
Door dash really is an unsustainable business. It's probably gonna tank in the next 5 years, I'd bet.
If I'm bothering to go out anyway I'll just get ingredients from the store and do it myself.
From one extreme to the next. Interesting.
That's just for cases where I'm bothering to go grocery shopping anyway. Sometimes I'm just too tired or lazy and then I'm ordering food.
An even better idea.
I feel so too, you get more for the same money. But getting stuff delivered has its place in situations where you for some reason don't have the energy.