They do make multiple deliveries per trip…
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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week agoIf you can make multiple deliveries each trip then home delivery could be more efficient, but it’s hard to see how it could be cheaper than picking the meal up yourself.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Occasionally. I regularly see uber eats drivers picking up single orders from restaurants.
Carl@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I had a friend who did this for a living, he had two phones so he would run Uber Eats and Doordash at the same time in order to try and optimize, and even then he spent a lot of time just sitting around because these apps are extremely inefficient (and later they started cracking down on people trying to increase their pay by doing both, dunno if it’s still doable now).
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It feels like a problem that needs to be solved by a centralised entity, but whoever that is will most likely monopolise the situation.
I think this problem will disappear once drones delivery is common. Flying twice as much food uses about 2.5x more energy.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Where I am you’re almost never the only delivery.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 1 week ago
When I delivered pizza and BBQ(different places) that’s what we did. Load up 2-4 orders and delivery range was like 15 miles. The pizza place was always busy but the BBQ only did delivery during lunch and dinner. Now you can order a coffee from Pete’s 20 miles away at 7am. Some things don’t make sense to deliver and no one wins.