- schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
Yay! Higher fees for customers and businesses, lower wages for workers, more profit for corporations! The system works!
- BuckFutter@timeyak.comEnglish9 days
Revised
Ingredients: 100% Concentrated Billionaire’s pissIngredients:
99.9% Concentrated Billionaire’s piss
0.01% Fecal matter and fecal matter derivatives
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
Holy shit just the maneurisms in that movie would make it impossible to get anything in one take without laughing.
They did so well.
- schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
Yeah, that guy on the right is barely keeping it together; can barely get through a 3-second meme.
If they can afford to buy out competitors, they aren’t paying drivers and employees enough
- ryper@lemmy.caEnglish9 days
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.
9 daysThat 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. 😁
- Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
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.
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
Oh no they will, once you’ve enshittified the business you operate, you have to enshittify the entire business sector, during all of that you have to enshittify our government agencies in order to trade your corporate dumps on the populace for cash.
“Capitalism! It’s working for someone!”
- Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
If they pull the private equity BS, door dash will make loads while instacart posts nothing but losses ‘for unknown reasons, probably just a downturn in the market or something’.
- 9 days
Gross. Let’s bring back the Bull Moose party and start busting up all these shitty megacorporations!
This is obviously a resounding win for the workers and customers, right?
Right?
- Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
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.
- NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
If you are using either of these companies you kinda get what you deserve.
- NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
Cool. Previously I never used two companies.
Now I only have to never use one.
Perfect.
Remember when we had functional anti trust investigations? I miss those days. I miss Linda 😭
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
- BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
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
- TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
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.
- Toga77@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
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.
- Toga77@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
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.
- 9 days
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?
I get my groceries delivered once a month from Instacart because I’m blind, so if I wanted to go grocery shopping myself, I would have to spend money on an Uber to take me there, then get a shopping assistant to help me pick up the stuff I need, and then pay for an Uber back home, so it actually ends up being cheaper to just get it delivered, and I can see what I’m purchasing in the app.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish9 days
i see where its disabled people use apps like prime whole food shopping too. its useful for these people. also well off people use it to, so they dont have to spend time to go to the store when they are working at home.
- 9 days
Where I’m from we have services for folks like you through our local grocery stores, I wish that was the case everywhere. The people that work for the grocery stores get paid better too.
- HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
I’m glad we made all those laws about monopolies and stuff. Would be bad if one were to be created in any sector in this country. But with hard work, and a watchful agency, we can protect ourselves from those dangers.
Sure glad it’s all still working. ಠ_ಠ
- jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish9 days
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.
- 9 days
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
- 9 days
That would be nice, but not likely to happen. It would be difficult once they are merged.
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.
It’d only cost 10 billion if they went and picked it up in person.
- 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
I’m no journalist, but something tells me ‘consolidation’ is the correct term for acquiring another corporation.
- Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish9 days
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.
