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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
So I don't really understand why you are paying so much for food? Looking at the local delivery app, I just now chose a "big Mac mcmenue" containing a big Mac, fries and a 0.5l drink. This would cost me 10,89€, let's say 13€ with a very generous tip.
At this moment it seems 13€ are worth $13,48. What are you ordering that costs more than double of that?
Almost everyone on uber eats (and similar services) mark up their items. This sausage burrito meal is $10 on uber eats and is 8 something in store
Delivery fee 5.99
tip (whatever you want to pay)
For a normal meal this will more than double the price. Order just about anything else and you’re easily at $30 with still almost half the price being the delivery.
That's crazy
Not everyone is ordering for a single person.
Two Big Mac Menus? And some chicken nuggets.
So people in the USA just eat a lot?
Another stereotype confirmed I guess
Food was cheap for a long time, and mental healthcare is prohibitively expensive.
Much more financially responsible to eat one's feelings.
I know some in Europe as well. A colleague from work regularly eats a large menu with an additional burger and chicken nuggets for lunch.
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'd rather "waste" some money instead of my time picking it up ... or even worse, shopping and cooking.
How would they complain that everything is way too expensive nowadays if they didn't?
DoorDash is a hell of a lot cheaper than catching a DUI charge tho
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.
And you really think so many people are on these medications that they make up a serious percentage of the market share?
How do all those people get to work on their medication?
There are a lot of medication you really shouldn't drive on, it's a common side effect, so probably hundreds of thousands if not in the millions
Buses, Uber, Family/Friends, medication timing (eg not taking until you get to work and not taking the next dose till after), WFH jobs
Or, you know, driving under the influence.
Who mentioned market share?
I'll take "this dumbfuck has never had to use a prescription in their life" for $500, Alex.
Oh look it's the daily double!
I'll take "medications can have various strengths of side effects, especially in the first few hours of taking them, and thus many need to be taken at home on a strict schedule, often before or with a meal, immediately when waking up, going to sleep... and it is very common for drugs to say not to operate a vehicle or machinery after taking and/or until you know how your body reacts"
They should really shorten that category, phew
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.
Ah yes. You have the time to sit around and get wasted but life is too busy for you to go to the store.
👍
Fuck you for telling people what to do with their time.
"I'm the ideal human who never has to think about other people's situations, struggles, or addictions. Everyone should be like me, just stop being stupid! Duh!" --this fucker
Like yeah, theoretically one shouldn't prioritize drinking or whatever over resources to sustain one's self. But theoretically, people also aren't massive shits to each another.
Walk a mile in their shoes or shut the fuck up.
Pull your shit together man
How's it look from that high horse you're on?
Yeah, but the DUI also buys you 3 meals a day for 6 months or so.
Me who is physically disabled and can’t leave my house: 👁️👄👁️
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?
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.
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.