Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery?
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIsn’t that because of customers choosing to rely on third party apps instead of taking advantage of local delivery? This seems like it requires a conscious resistance on our part. If everyone keeps doordashing everything, local restaurants have no choice but to get on board, fire their drivers, and let us pay more for app delivery via underpaid gig workers.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes. The “free market” has chosen 3rd party delivery.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I suppose this makes sense, since 3rd party delivery opened up delivery options that couldn’t/wouldn’t provide delivery on their own—because before you could get anything delivered, it didn’t seem like a realistic or necessary service line. Now that we’ve seen how quickly 3rd party goes to shit and how important delivery actually is, the dream would be for some restaurant chain to evolve its own delivery service and use their size to gain traction, somehow slowing down the 3rd parties enough to allow smaller restaurants to slide in with their own private or cooperative delivery. And a dream it shall remain…