Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery?

• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  you think they should refuse to sell food to people in underprivileged areas? are you nuts or what

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I did just edit it to make my point a little clearer, which changed quite a bit of it. But to answer your question, if that area is an unsafe area, yes 1000%

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think you’re just extremely wrong about all of this. The doordash app could warn drivers about certain areas and give them the option to refuse orders, but this has nothing to do with dominos. They are responsible for their own staff. Dominos isn’t a government

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      • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh, don’t get me wrong. DoorDash is as much at fault as Domino’s would be in this scenario.

        I just don’t see the comparison of oh, it’s not safe enough for my company to send people there, so let me allow another company to send people there because they are willing to give me money for it.

        If it’s not safe to go to, then neither company should be sending there, and anyone that’s assisting in allowing that to go there would be equally at fault.

        it sucks for the people who live in that area, but I don’t see where it makes logical sense to cause additional human risk for someone else’s situation for the intent of increasing profits. It’s morbid.

        the core issue is exactly like what you just mentioned. DoorDash could do that, however they don’t, they even actively penalize their drivers for refusing routes that go to specific areas. if DD isn’t going to do it, then that responsibility morally falls on dominoes.

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s huge “I can’t fix this problem myself” mentality. Dominoes isn’t sending anyone to that neighborhood. Could you imagine the furthered dystopic trend if Dominoes (and others) COULD choose which neighborhoods to not serve by 3rd party? If multi-brand corporations could so directly manipulate product availability like that?

  There’s enough problems in poorer areas becoming “food deserts” by lacking proper groceries and only having garbage fast food available in walking/bussing distance. Let’s not give the French fry overlords any more power to tailor the markets through delivery denial.

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Firstly, I don’t think the statement of I can’t do anything about it is valid here. Those chains could for sure offer a safe way of delivering it to those areas, but they choose not to because of cost, which is somewhat understandable but still bleh to me.

    The food deserts, as you described, is going to happen regardless of if Domino’s allows DoorDash to deliver to bad areas or not.As at the end of the day, Dominos decides where they open and how they operate and that’s not changing any time soon.

    I can’t wrap my head around any situation where, logically, you should be sending someone in to a risk area that’s known for people getting mugged slash robbed because someone lives there. especially for the wages that those delivery drivers make on both Domino’s and DoorDash.

    There are solutions to the problem you listed there and allowing a company to pawn everything off to a company that isn’t putting the proper safety measures in for their drivers is not the solution.

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