That’s fucking bullshit! Anti-competitive, monopolistic practices like this should be blocked by the anti-trust laws that we have in place to protect against precisely this!
What the fuck.
Remember when we had functional anti trust investigations? I miss those days. I miss Linda 😭
I’m no journalist, but something tells me ‘consolidation’ is the correct term for acquiring another corporation.
If they can afford to buy out competitors, they aren’t paying drivers and employees enough
The article doesn’t say how they’re planning to pay for Instacart. They could be planning to take on billions of dollars in debt for all we know.
That still means the same thing though. If they’re planning to take billions of debt, they and their lender think they’re either making good money today or they’d be making it in the future. Or in other words they can either pay their workers more today or in the future. 😁
Or they are going to do the typical private equity thing and transfer the debt to instacart as soon as they are acquired and then use the debt as an excuse for instacart to go bankrupt in a few years (or months) and walk away one competitor less in the market.
It’s never about what they can do, only what they want to do.
Yay! Higher fees for customers and businesses, lower wages for workers, more profit for corporations! The system works!
You feeling that trickle down too? Tastes like gatorade lol.
Why’s it smell like sewage?
Ingredients: 100% Concentrated Billionaire’s piss
Pretty sure there’s some shit in there too…
Revised
Ingredients: 100% Concentrated Billionaire’s pissIngredients:
99.9% Concentrated Billionaire’s piss
0.01% Fecal matter and fecal matter derivatives
You forgot microplastics
Lol, I did, look Im not the FDA, okay lol
Yeah, shit, why?
Its got electrolytes!
This is obviously a resounding win for the workers and customers, right?
Right?
Careful, you’ll have cherrypickers coming in to defend/tell you how wrong you are for disliking “gig economy” apps when they’re a literal scam meant to keep the middle and lower classes subservient.
These cherrypickers are apparently making bank just doing these deliveries though, and we totally shouldn’t question their methods, how many apps they actually work for, or whether they’re just straight up lying.
I hate doordash, Ubereats, grubhub, any of them. It’s such bullshit to be constantly accepting orders that pay literally $2.50 for driving them a coffee from the one place they need it from across the county.
Hey ABC News, the word that you were looking for is Monopoly.
Came here to make the same comment lol
This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.
That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.
We don’t have a functioning government. If we did this wouldn’t be allowed along with the other massive consolidations going on.
Another item for the next administration’s checklist: break up all these damn corporate monopolies
Gross. Let’s bring back the Bull Moose party and start busting up all these shitty megacorporations!
How is this even possible?
Door dash sucks ass. Instacart has been the only delivery service I’ve never had an issue with around my area and now it’s fucked too?
I don’t get it
Funny, where i am, instacart constantly, like every single order, would get shit wrong.
The last time before cancelling my subscription in my order i requested frozen prepared cannelloni. I received dry noodle tubes.
And every dasher around here in the very poor part of the city drive bmw, Mercedes, tricked out subaru BRz, etc.
Did you select a preference for “What to do if this item is out of stock” or did you just wing it and get mad when it wasn’t what you wanted?
because the demand for these services is growing rapidly.
where i live tons of people basically live off doordash and other delivery services. my own neighbors order it 1-2 times a day. on my block of maybe 50+ apartments, there are deliveries from drivers basically every 20m, during dinner/lunch hours often there are multiple drivers dropping off at the same time.
many folks I have met are spending well over $1000+ per month on these services.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use these services at least a few times a month. millions and millions of people are using them and many of those people are totally addicted.
I ordered it last night because I had to work OT and didn’t get home until 7:30pm, and I was starving. and for $25 bucks I got two meals worth of delicious hot food at my door in 20m.
Thats wild. I instacart maybe 3 times a year but have done it for years in a pinch.
Haven’t used any other food delivery for years because they’re a complete ripoff.
$25 for two meals is kinda meh, it seems good relative to everything else now but you can make a weeks worth of food with $20 and the right veggies, noodles, and a protein.
If you discount or coupon shop you can get even better.
Unfortunately most people in the US don’t respect themselves enough to fight for the rights and wages to not have to work 60 hours a week and then they get convenient overpriced food.
$25 for two meals is kinda meh, it seems good relative to everything else now but you can make a weeks worth of food with $20 and the right veggies, noodles, and a protein.
If you discount or coupon shop you can get even better.
This isn’t very helpful when someone gets home unexpectedly late and is exhausted and hungry. $25 is a pretty good price these days for two meals delivered to your door. How many meals you could get out of that $25 if you had the time and energy to cook isn’t really relevant.
if you need to worry about that kind of money you are too poor to use these services. That’s fine, your not the target demo.
The people using them typically make over 100K+ a year and for them time is money. They don’t shop in stores, they don’t cook, and they don’t do take-out either. They dine-in or do delivery. For every meal.
For people making 10K a month, spending 2K a month on delivery food is 20% of their income. It’s entirely affordable. They are also spending 4-5K on rent/mortgage. A lot of them are young people making 100K and living with 3 roommates so they have like 8K+ in disposable income.
I spend maybe $100 month on delivery, during the pandemic it was closer to $300 because I dind’t have the option of dining out anywhere.
You can find it outrageous all you want, doesn’t mean it isn’t a growth industry. I don’t buy first class plane tickets or stay in $1000/night hotels, but those markets are also booming.
Flabbergasted that people will pay so much to have McDonald’s delivered.
Top Ordered Food Nationwide:
Fries
Chicken Quesadilla
Mozzarella Sticks
Garlic Naan
Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Pepperoni Pizza
Chips & Queso
Traditional Wings
Cobb Salad
Fried Rice
I wonder if it’s gotten so expensive to eat out, that the delivery fee doesn’t appear as bad any more (comparatively)
It was 40-fucking-dollars to get two meals at carls Jr. I’ll never go there again and would rather buy local than a chain, but even another $10 wouldn’t look too bad for delivery
I don’t do delivery so idk what the actual cost is
it’s mostly tip, and tip is optional.
if you pay them a monthly free, like 10 bucks, you get no delivery fees. if you order like twice a month, it pays for itself.
you also often get coupons, discounts, etc. i use these services because I can get $50 in food delivered to my door for like $25.
I’m flabbergasted at the amount of energy their occupation demands of them so much that it makes delivering naan and fries worth the cost in contrast to the time and energy savings it takes to get it yourself. Sounds like people are getting overworked or otherwise anxious. It’s not like people are doing it for the cost savings.
It’s dumber when you consider that cooking is not only fun, but once you’re good at it, it’s really fast and easy to make a way better meal than you’d ever get.
I can make a better smash burger than 95% of the bullshit places popping up, and for a literal fraction of the cost.
Lots of people struggle with things like dishes, which makes things like cooking not realistic or fun option. And getting out of that rut is hard.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but depression is only made worse by overspending on luxury food because you couldn’t do dishes.
Nearly everything on that list tastes better fresh and hot.
Chinese and pizza are typical delivery items because there’s a pizza joint in every neighborhood and Chinese can sit an hour with very little change to the food but why would anyone pay double or triple for McDonald’s when their fries are gross and soggy fifteen seconds out of the fryer?
Because competition is bad.
This feels like that bit about Taco Bell in Demolition Man. Idk, who would win each fight?
One network TV: Warner.
One US internet access, the utility and the equipment: FCC Inc.
One social media: Meta (because Elon will get bored and Spaz will sell out, but Zuckerberg only knows how to be the asshole he is in one specific way). Probably.
Blackrock, Health and Food divisions.
One computing component manufacturer: Nvidia.
Never mind how all of the above is supposed to be illegal.
It’d only cost 10 billion if they went and picked it up in person.
Enshitification incoming
That was doordash from the very start
I’ll refer to them both from now on as WhoreDash and Instashart.
