Thread 21402803

How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
>all menu prices are upmarked an extra $3-4
>service fee
>delivery fee
>"small order fee" if you don't buy enough
>tip so the driver actually takes your order and doesn't deliver it completely cold

By the end of it something you could pick up for 9 bucks ends up costing you double or more.

Is it just lazy morons wasting their money?

because they can

I'm rich

>>21402803 (OP)
It's really that much more? I've never, ever used some taxi service to pick up food for me because I knew it was retarded, but I had no idea just HOW retarded.
People paying 250% markup for cold food 45 minutes later? LOLOL

>>21402811
Then hire a limousine to take you to the drive-though in style so you can have hot and fresh food. Or rent out the restaurant and have a private dinner inside. As long as you're posting fantasies.

>>21402803 (OP)
>Is it just lazy morons wasting their money?
Yes

If you vote for me I'll make pizza delivery the fourth emergency service.

boss had me calculate a 30% upcharge on all items when making the uber eats menu
i'm sure if i could into excel and math it wouldn't have taken three hours
we started selling a lot more king crab

Do Americans really? Lmao, items are like 10-20% more expensive and sometimes you have to pay up to 2€ for the delivery itself.
Tips are out of fashion now that everything has gone up

>>21402882
>pizza now takes 5x longer to arrive
no thanks

>>21402803 (OP)
Forget delivery, how are people eating out and not cooking at home?

>>21402882
You can unironically get pizza and drugs delivered to your house faster than any of the three emergency services.

>>21402990
There are so many reasons to do that unless you are dirt poor that I don't even know where to begin, are you by chance antisocial or retarded?

>>21402803 (OP)
>Is it just lazy morons wasting their money?
obviously. they can enjoy their doordash, i bought a house without needing to take out a mortgage.

>>21403052
Epic, want a cookie?

>>21403055
no thanks, i don't know where your poor hands have been.
if i wanted a cookie i'd make it myself. i'm on /ck/ because i can cook & bake, not because i have brainrot & want to talk about fast food all day.

>>21403058
Epic, want a cookie?

>>21402803 (OP)
I only use delivery apps when I’m piss drunk and want something other than pizza
Still, the day after I cringe at the costs

Stopped by my sister's house last week and the driveway was blocked by a delivery driver. They were delivering groceries to my basement dwelling nephew. He works in a grocery store. He worked that day. He still had groceries delivered. WTF?

>>21402803 (OP)
because im rich enough to order food directly from my toilet. Some drivers will deliver it right to my first floor window if I'm busy with my business.

>>21402803 (OP)
It's called the stupid tax.

>>21403091
I think this explains a lot of it. When covid happened people started drinking a lot more and those delivery services all started being a big deal.
I'll bet almost half of their business is people so wasted not only that they won't drive, but that they temporarily don't give a fuck about paying $30 for a burger and fries "value meal" that would otherwise be $11.

>>21403048
>There are so many reasons to do that unless you are dirt poor that I don't even know where to begin, are you by chance antisocial or retarded?
>dirt poor
>antisocial
>retarded
Yes to all 3 of those things in fact.. But I don't think that's such a big deal.

If you weren't a fucking retard and could make a sandwich it would cost $2.

>>21402803 (OP)
>How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
Retardation induced laziness. I knew someone who would take an uber to pick up their ubereats order because uber would never deliver to their apartment door. He now spends his days sadposting on discord about being rejected from the marines because of weed.

>>21403055
Is it a cookie from Jersey Mike's because those are actually really good

>>21402854
They give you coupons every so often, like $10 off which make the food the same price as picking it up yourself. You used to be able to combine the coupons with other deals, like buy one get one free. I remember ordering $4 burgers, and paying $16 for 8 burgers, delivered straight to my door on a raining day. Also here, tips aren't expected.

>>21402855
He said he's rich, not retarded.

>>21402811
hi rich

>>21402854
this is not typical.
some restaurants are niggers and charge more on the app, but here's the trick, don't order from those restaurants.
also, the small order fee is easily ignored by ordering a normal sized order. get a side or a drink.
and yes, it will be more expensive than getting it in person, but that's because you're paying someone to deliver it. you want convenience? yes you're gonna pay more

i can't wait til we're all forced to be on some kind of subscription based meal plans because of you retards.
you think that sounds ridiculous? is it any more ridiculous than all of our media being subscription based? printers and vehicles having features behind paywalls? having to pay a monthly fee to have a place to live?

>>21402803 (OP)
This only makes sense if itll take you over a half hour to get to wherever you'd go to pick up the food yourself. But if you're ordering from a place ten minutes away you deserve to be charged up the ass for being a lazy faggot.

>>21403333
good doubles

>>21403048
did you never learn to cook?

>>21403312
people have been ordering pizza since before you were born

>>21402803 (OP)
I stopped when I moved recently. I'm not in a place where there's 50 charged on top of everything, but every store doubled their pricing for delivery, and where I am now it's much easier to drive 2 minutes to a pizza hut or the grocery store and buy normal food there.

>>21403338
Of course I can cook, are you people really this retarded?
Sometimes people just want to go outside. Have a date, meet up with friends, eat something unusual, treat themselves etc.
has covid wiped your brains or something? Eating outwards is something very normal like once or twice a month for the average family.

>>21402803 (OP)
Idk why they used them in the first place. How God damn lazy are you?

>>21403312
Who's gonna tell him?

Some people do not own cars, but are not poor.

I work from home, so I do not need a car really. But I rarely like to cook dinner. Door dash works perfectly, especially if you use the pass to save on fees.

>>21403357
>Eating outwards
oh you're one of *them*
gross

>>21403400
>Oh shit no argument
>Hurr durr you are "other tribe"
Not even American retard but that the idea of a restaurant is political to you tells me all.

>>21403451
>politics
you're making up things to get mad about

>>21402854
Kids don't know how to cook anything and have zero planning so they order food every time they get hungry.

>>21403048
There's like one reason, and it's convenience. There are so many reasons to not do it, it's insane. I haven't eaten out in 8 months

>>21402803 (OP)
>food
same price
>small order fee
order more retard
>service fee
alright fair enough
>delivery fee
like 6 bucks a month to have free deliveries+other discounts from hundreds of restaurants and markets
>tip
0
feels good to live with a decent delivery service

>>21403342
From the pizza shop

>>21402803 (OP)
Delivery is the epitome of lazy in a world where pick up apps exist. Just get the food yourself. It's not too hard.

I go to places in person and I order from the same places other times, you don't need some faggy breakdown to compare receipts that are the same orders but one is delivery and one isn't. It's usually 5 bucks more, don't know who the fuck is giving a 4 dollar tip to a driver, I tip a blanket $1.00 and most service/delivery fees are around 98 cents here, the rest is the uppricing of the items.

>>21402803 (OP)
Technically that's a burger

>>21403128
My friends have Doordashed food to themselves while eating at another restaurant. If you're drunk or high delivery apps are a godsend, but some younger people are also just irresponsible with money and kind of retarded.

>>21402803 (OP)
>How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
People who make very good money that have shit work hours and need something delivered or else they would never eat.

>>21402803 (OP)
the only time I ever use any food delivery apps is when I get a coupon for 40+% off and I'm feeling lazy, since that pays for all the delivery fee bullshit. I don't get how zoomzooms don't understand how badly they're getting ripped off buying things full price on these things

>>21403580
>>21403456
>>21404048

I think there's a considerable amount of credit card debt being racked up by this whole industry. I don't see people working hard and paying their bills and still paying $25 per meal on a regular basis, especially if it's all these zoomers who don't work good jobs.
I know several people who've accumulated tens of thousands in debt by just assuming they'll never have to account for all of that money. Getting multiple cards and maxxing them all out and then ignoring the mail for years.
You can't win against those creditors. You'll end up paying them back one way or another and your credit will be FUCKED going forward.

But the promise of some semi-warm burgers on your doorstep so your video game chair never gets cold and your Call of Duty strike team of other such incels don't have to wait for you sure makes that 'convenience' seem worth it at the time I guess.
Fucking idiots, all of them.

>>21402803 (OP)
Destruction of family left the world with a lot of single people with disposable income. My friend is 36, single and makes good money. He orders 90% of his meals and just doesn't care how much it costs. It ticks me off not because of the price but the quality. I tried a few delivery orders a long time ago and the food was so shit it wasn't even worth it. Pizza is the only thing that can be delivered and still be good enough to eat. Imagine eating a burger that has sat in front of some jeets air conditioner for 30 minutes.

I don't use them for delivery. I check them to see if there are any combination BOGO + $x off $y deals nearby. And then, importantly, I pick it up myself. A lot of the time the deals are app specific, and the combination of deals on the app are better than what I'd pay if I walked in and ordered. I used to also get 10% cash back for any purchases made through Uber, but that ship sailed, but it was at the time another compelling reason to use the app for pick up orders.

You guys are all insane, aside from a few very strange cases, most people that do order regularly still only do it like once a week even if they have the money.
Same with going to a restaurant which happens even less.

>>21404653
Probably. Everything online is all exaggerated.

>Is it just lazy morons wasting their money?
It always was.

>>21402803 (OP)
There are days when I'm down and low and just don't fucking care about anything are all
It's fine, i only spend my money on groceries and meds for grandparents and occasionally buy the odd computer part for myself every 6 months.
I don't have a girlfriend so my bank account is getting fatter and fatter

>>21402803 (OP)
>How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
they're lazy

I'm admittedly a lazy bastard who doesn't cook much so I eat out often. Even I always go and get the food myself. I don't trust some random person to deliver my food and if there's a problem I can address it right away in person.

the funny part is, I heard that none of these delivery companies have found a way to turn a profit.

its really convenient when youre babysitting

>>21404653
that's still $thousands a year

>>21402803 (OP)
I hear some people claim they're too tired to pick up their food, even if it means taking the elevator down and walking a block or two.

>>21402803 (OP)
That's it, I'm making my own delivery service app.

>>21403459
Would you be, by chance, an incel?

>>21405840
>4chans
>asking if you're an incel
it's assumed lonely boy

>>21402803 (OP)
I have never used delivery platforms

I call the pizza place, order, and then drive over there to pick it up as it comes out of the hot oven. It’s a skill issue if you don’t do this.

>>21406099
just make your own at that point
i'm only ordering a pizza if i'm already busy

>>21406116
Must not have a good pizza place near you then.

>>21406180
I just know how to cook and enjoy cooking, which is why I browse /ck/.

>>21406180
I'm sure everyone has a Domino's nearby.

Never understood this myself.
Its a closed market designed to reduce consumer competition, anyone with a brain can see that in 5 seconds. they are paying to boot smaller eateries off these platforms, they are monopolizing.

Fast food isn't cheap any more, and it's not good value.
It was, but that's no longer the case.

>>21402999
>pizza and drugs
By the same driver?

>>21402803 (OP)
Its necessary. Roughly 50% of US GDP at this point is OF subscriptions and delivery. We need it for the economy

>>21402803 (OP)
Pretty much everybody I know that door dashes frequently is either outright rich or comfortably upper middle class.
I think the stereotype of zoomers and poor people door dashing every meal is just a few examples of comically irresponsible people getting blown out of proportion. When I was in college (way back when these apps first came out) 9 times out of 10 my classmates who would frequently use these apps definitely had parents who would just pay off their credit card bill every month.
People underrate how much support parents give your "broke" friends. I'm in my early 30s now and all of our friends who have bought a house coincidentally have rich parents who had $50k lying around for a down payment. Which sucks for my wife and I because our rich parents are hyper vigilant about not letting us be the kind of brats who are still dependent on Mom and dad into our 30s so other than helping us pay rent in college we were cut off after high school.
Those apps exist because there genuinely are just enough people well off enough to sustain them. The middle class is shrinking, but most of that attrition is because of growth in the upper middle class. Not a reversion to being low income.

>>21407568
I'm glad all the white collar jobs are getting replaced by AI.

>>21402803 (OP)
I use Uber Eats when I'm sick or just burned out from work. It's still like twice a month at most, and since I order rarely I get coupons. In my experience most of the people who rely on these services regularly are retards who buy $30 burgers from Wendy's then wonder why they don't have any money.

>>21402803 (OP)
>tip
Lol, I don't and theres nothing these faggot app cucks can do about it.

>>21406992
Often, yes

A lot of drug runners, at least in Europe, "work" on delivery services, taking orders rarely just for cover. It's a great way to be constantly zipping around town on a moped with a big backpack and not seem odd to police.
Have a bunch of styrofoam containers full of nugs ? Just keep a few of them with food in them at the top on the very rare chance you actually get stopped

>>21403206
>8 burgers
eat a salad, tubbs

>>21408412
Also bonus, you can have your face covered most of the time without it raising eyebrows

>>21402803 (OP)
I don't get it either. I used Uber eats once in my entire life back in 2017. I ordered chicken wings, they were cold by the time I got them, and it cost an extra $15. I deleted the app and never used a food delivery app again (aside from pizza, obviously).

I almost used doordash once when they sent me a 40% off coupon but with all the fees and tip and everything it ended up costing exactly as much as it would have sans coupon.

Then I saw doordash drivers saying if I didnt tip I might as well not even order because theyd just let it sit there.

So I just didnt. Fuck em.

>>21402803 (OP)
>all the same thing
this is rape

>>21402803 (OP)
I think what pisses me off the most is that you pay a service and delivery fee, but that's not actually paying for your food to be delivered - you have to pay another $4 delivery fee to the driver, or you literally won't receive your food. They'll go out of their way not to deliver it, or accept it in the first place, they will maliciously fuck with you if they do take your order, etc. And while they're fucking pricks for doing it, at the same time THEY don't get paid if you don't chip in that $4 tip, like the delivery company they "work for" doesn't even pay them a wage, so unless YOU pay their wage they're literally losing money to deliver food to you
Clown world shit

>>21402803 (OP)
Because our only other option is a sandwich we made at home however many hours before that we can only pray to Jesus has stayed cool enough to avoid giving us food poisoning.

Brain no work when sugar low

I'm not paying money for food delivered, prepared, or interacted with in any way by an Indian.

It's as simple as that.

>>21402803 (OP)
why are they pretending that tips aren't expected when you pick up takeout?
it doesn't matter that you went to get it, they still expect a 50% tip rounded up to the nearest $5

How much is the average delivery fee over there? Fuck the tip. When I'd order delivery here in the UK, first of all I was pissed off that the restaurants would bump up the price on the food - i.e. Something that was £2.20 normal menu would be £2.89 on the delivery menu, then a 10% service fee up to £2.49 then the delivery fee. I live in the centre, these restaurants are less than a mile away and it would still be £1.99 to £3.99. How much is it per mile there?

>>21402803 (OP)
>How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
by not living in the US. Food ordering is still acceptable here

>>21402803 (OP)
lazy people who have something called an expendable income - i know its a foreign concept to this dog ass board
once again, you reveal yourself as a bunch of seething poors, desperately gripping at any source of superiority you can wrap your penny pinching fingers around
>ah, they're lazy and they can't cook and they pay more for something!
>i'm not seething, i swear

>>21403613
i tip 4-5 dollars and never order from anywhere further than 2 miles. only issues twice - a jeet claimed his car broke down and begged me to cancel, and some spic tried to shake me down for more tip money, so i reported him

this is in like 3 years of using the service once a week, on average

>>21402803 (OP)
Ironically, its probably mostly poors using this

>>21402803 (OP)
It’s like a bad habit and learned behavior. Like how people reinstall tinder just to swipe or ordering random stuff off prime because it arrives the next day. People love instant gratification and the feeling of being catered to. Food delivery apps are the quickest vehicle for that. Also they took full advantage of the climate during the pandemic to make them become socially acceptable so people don’t feel bad whereas like 20 years ago ordering mcdonalds would be an insane slob move.

>>21402811
This.

>>21402811
>>21411312
how much do you have saved?

>>21408412
a sniffer dog showing interest in your package can also be easily explained as the dog smelling the food
unless they've updated the police dog training since the 90s that is
ex-cop barry cooper's never get busted series talked about this and tons of other strategies for hiding marijuana from the law
interesting bloke actually
he's got a regular livestream on youtube these days

>>21411316
About tree fitty

>>21409513
no, they're 3 different variables
small order fee disappears if you spend over x amount
service fee is a flat rate charged by uber
delivery fee depends on the restaurant
i know all this because i get these deliveries pretty regularly
it's only a few quid extra to get the order delivered if you're careful

>>21408412
>>21411364
On mythbusters they had a few episodes using police dogs, they were trained to ignore food.
One of them found the """drugs""" even though they were bagged multiple times and buried in a can full of coffee.

>>21402811
people dont stay rich by wasting money

>>21402803 (OP)
In bongland at least they are back into an investor-fuelled growth/loss-leader cycle focussing on certain areas. This means they're throwing stupid free money offers to try and push 'new' products for further squiggly line go up currently shopping delivery stuff. So on one day a week a random bunch of items are 50% off on top of a flat £10 discount voucher and free shipping. So while each item will have maybe a 10-15% retard tax you just bulk-buy whatever's on stupid discount and can be frozen/is shelf-stable, apply the voucher and get £30 worth of shopping that they claim is £40 worth done for £10.

Similarly if you open the app/site, make a bunch of orders and then back out at the checkout every few weeks they'll start throwing higher and higher 'please come back' discounts at you that you can stack up for a single order then come back in a few months. Just do this while working from home and stuck in meetings or whatever. It's similar to the idea that you should never order chain pizza without using the big discounts.

>>21403400
>outwards
esl or phonefag?

>>21404884
NTA and not defending the goyslop consoomers but if you paid $20 once a week for say 50 weeks a year not counting christmas and one other week off you only get to $1,000 not thousands. You could probably reasonably suggest a non-fatty is replacing a meal worth $3-5 as well, so either increase that budget to $25 or reduce the actual cost to $17 or something. Ditto if they aren't a greedy shit they probably get enough for leftovers the next day.

>>21402803 (OP)
Uber Eats is based as fuck, they send me free food all the time. Their drivers are retarded though, they always leave the food at my neighbors' doors for whatever reason.

>>21402803 (OP)
And then they claim they can't afford a home.

>>21411883
people don't get rich by wasting time

>>21407357
source?
of only made 6.3 billions in revenue in 2023. apple had made more than 5 times that in that year

>>21402811
Being rich doesn't excuse stupid purchases

>>21411900
Read the post they're replying to, retard.

>>21403048
>so many reasons
Such as...?
Please give at least ten, if there are so many.
Here, I'll help you: "Special occasion", like birthday or anniversary.
Now you only need to come up with nine more.

>>21404653
>only do it like once a week
>ONLY
you're already so far gone that you don't even realize how insane you are

>>21409521
Stop putting raw eggs on your sandwiches

>>21409694
>just because you have the money you should spend it

>>21402803 (OP)
I never understood getting delivery unless you were throwing a party and didn't want to leave your guests. It seems like shut-in behavior. I'd rather eat at a bar and spend that extra money on tip and drinks than spend it on some corporation's fees and Abdul's tip so I could eat it at my crummy apartment.

>>21402803 (OP)
I think OP is just angry because there are people who are rich enough to use these delivery services, and he is poor and not able to use these services.
You don't see me crying because I can't buy a $4,000 iPhone the same day it is released.

>>21413544
>You don't see me crying because I can't buy a $4,000 iPhone the same day it is released.
The question is: Will you eventually buy it or are you a sane person who would never spend 4k on a phone that can't do anything better than a phone that costs a tenth of that (and even that is already too much for a phone).

>>21413554
>or are you a sane person who would never
Sweet. Gaslighting.
Now how should I respond to this abusive behavior?

>>21402803 (OP)
i order my groceries sometimes, because its not a fucking sandwich they charge me store prices pls one small fee for delivery only downside is they dont have as many products as physically going there

>>21402811
You know what they say, and it's been true for centuries. Money just can't buy class.

>>21403092
What do basement dwelling nephews eat these days? Lots of cookies and candy...slim jims...etc?

>>21402803 (OP)
I used them because my job is exhausting and I don't have the energy ro cook when I get home from work.
>>21402854
It is. It's like $8 extra per order all said and done.

>>21403206
yeah that's the only time I ever used delivery services, like once every few months I'd get some coupon in an email and usually find a restaurant that already did 3 for 1 deals or whatever. But not everyone is as cheap as me.

>>21408415
you put them in the fridge for later dumbass

>>21403048
eh, once you hit 30 and people have families you're mostly invited to each other's houses for meals. Depending on your friend group the food can be better than most restaurants and you don't have to deal with all the bullshit the service industry pushes on you. Restaurants are for people on dates and celebrating something special, otherwise it's just money you could have spent on better things.

>>21403117
>Some drivers will deliver it right to my first floor window if I'm busy with my business.

In what world? Most drivers won't even bother to wait around if you're not magically in the place they went to because they misread your adress. Home deliveries with that much dedication only existed back when restaurants had their own delivery boys

>>21406180
it's a rare pizza place that makes it better than most homecooks. Pizza is not a difficult thing to make anon.

>>21406976
it's even worse than that. Last month I was eating at a local pizza place and got to talking with the owner, he said he can't even get listed on the app because the restaurant doesn't have enough fast food places around it. According to him, fastfood franchises make up so much of the sales on the app that if you're not next to a branch of like McD's or KFC you'll never get a driver to come to you area so the app filters you out during candidacy. He was really upset about it too even though his restaurant is packed every night, guess he figures he's getting jewed out of some extra sales.

>>21407568
I was in a training program last year that was aimed at people who were NEET or otherwise had not held down a job in ages. Everyone besides a few was on some form of NEETbux as their sole income and yet I've never seen so many people order in their lunch every single day. No idea how they afforded it, maybe they had rich parents like you I guess.

You're very right about parents helping children buy property though, I've seen the same here. My cousin just got his father to drop 100k on his new house.

>>21402803 (OP)
having food delivered costs money!? Outrageous!

>>21408412
yeah the guy who delivers my weed does this, the first time he delivered we got confused because I was assuming it'd be some guy in a tracksuit and he had no idea what I looked like.

>>21409934
>Food delivery apps are the quickest vehicle for that.
but the service quality is often shit and the food gets here cold, it doesn't feel like being catered to at all.

real talk though, why do people even need doordash? Couldn't there just be like a group of dudes in your area with a phone list and then when you want food you hit them up and see who's available?

>>21402803 (OP)
>How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
I use amazon, walmart, and my local liquor store for delivery.
>amazon
prime is pretty handy if you need something fast, and the shipping is free, so if you order stuff often it ends up paying for itself
>walmart
also has free delivery for anything over $35, and you can 'tip' whatever you want.
>liquor store
They give a discount if you buy two or more of something, and that discount covers the delivery fee. Just the savings in DUIs and shit are worth it.

>>21406992
I met my current DD off of uber

>>21402803 (OP)
>Is it just lazy morons wasting their money?
Yes.

/thread

>>21408415
back when McD had $0.29 burgers I'd buy 20 of them and put them in the fridge/freezer and live off of them and ramen (which cost more when making it edible).

>>21416722
Yeah, no. Nobody believes that shit you dense cunt.

>>21416725
To make ramen edible you need at least an egg and cheese. You could buy a hamburger from McD for less than that. Not hard to comprehend.

>>21416729
>Not hard to comprehend.
Unless you are a dense cunt. /ck/ memes for the win!

>>21402803 (OP)
>How the fuck are people still using delivery platforms?
because fast food places and restaurants dont do their own delivery anymore. they're happy for some 3rdie to do it for $1-2/hr than to actually have to pay someone $24/hr to stand around all night waiting for orders.

even Dominos, Pizza Hut and the others have fired their delivery drivers and outsourced it all. Its more expensive, takes longer and the customer service is worse.

>>21402999
whenever ive called the 3 emergency services they've all been here in under a minute, not my problem you live in Bumfuckanulla, outback Western Australia

>>21402990
>how are people eating out and not cooking at home?
working 2 full time jobs or a full-time plus a part-time has become the norm.
lots of people pulling 70+ hour weeks, getting home and wanting hot food ready to eat, but are still somehow too braindead to plan ahead to fill their fridge/freezer full of ready to eat meals.

If you want a window into the future look at China. The men all work delivery to pay the women who are streaming on twitch, then the women use that money to order delivery.
Most of their economy is like that now, streamers there with 15 million followers barely living pay check to pay check.

>>21403312
>is it any more ridiculous than all of our media being subscription based?
Honestly the Subscription-ocracy is such a big problem but no-one fucking talks about it.
Though picrel is a joke, I know a lot of people who are pretty close to this level, sinking at least a couple of hundred a month into random $5-10/mo subscriptions.

Meanwhile /v/ fucking cries and shits and pisses its pants over paying $12/mo for an MMO they'll sink 16k hours into over 3 years.

>>21404884
Alcoholics spend $10k/year on grog easily and sweep it under the rug, its just one of those things.
People are more loose with their money if its small gradual increments over one lump sum payment, thats why every video game is "free" now but has battlepasses, microtransactions, loot boxes and premium tiers.

>>21416741
This was prior to delivery services anon.

>>21413518
I'd been waiting to say this, but it's much cheaper than a DUI. Unless you can walk to your local bar or other places, it's the only option without risking thousands of dollars, time in jail, and a suspended license that makes you Uber to work.

I live in a city in the Southwest, and it's not like I can just walk downstairs and find food like in New York. I've gotta drive. The closest thing I have is a Walgreens with frozen shit, and I'm not taking a 30 minute walk to get Hot Pockets when boozing.

>>21416800
This sounds like something a dense cunt would say.

>>21402803 (OP)

Why is Jersey Mikes charging 54% more for the same sandwich when ordered via UberEats (other then they can gouge dumbasses)?

Because I would think the restaurant would prefer dealing with orders via apps with direct deposit and having a driver just pop in and get out quickly, instead of possibly having some soccermom in the store, hemming and hawing and slowing everything down? Time is money.

>>21403092

At least your nephew works, mine was a straight-A student thru jr.high and high school and got scholarships for college, then did literally nothing for 1/2 a year and dropped out, citing "anxiety" and "suicidal thoughts" and now (he's 26 years old) he just sleeps all day, fucks around on discord all night and has declared that he identifies as a woman...

>>21416256
>Most drivers won't even bother to wait around if you're not magically in the place they went to because they misread your adress.

Yeah, it's not uncommon to see food deliveries just left on the floor of entry lobby of my apartment building. What happens then, is the restaurant charged, the driver or the customer?

>>21415126
He has his own fridge down there and I've never looked in it. The only thing I noticed in the delivery was milk. I've never known him to be a picky eater but at that age I ate a lot of Chunky Soup and Hamburger Helper.
>>21416948
Sorry to hear that anon. He sounds lost and modern society goes out of its way to ensure such young men remain lost instead of finding a good path. Don't what they're going to do when their parents start dying off and they have to run their own lives.

>>21403143
>If you weren't a fucking retard and could make a sandwich it would cost $2.

A young coworker either gets fast food on the way into work or (because he doesn't have a car) has it delivered literally every day. I've tried convincing him to just buy some lunchmeat, bread, cheese, etc and make a sandwich but...

>>21416962
>Don't what they're going to do when their parents start dying off and they have to run their own lives.

He's only had one job in his life (an easy gig at a label making company) and it only lasted a few months before they shitcanned him.

>>21416974
My last college roommate dropped out after I graduated. He moved back to our hometown and back in with his parents. That was almost thirty years ago. His dad has since died and his mother is elderly.
His plan when he was young and dropped out was to inherit the house when he is old and coast through the rest of his life in a paid off house, using whatever his parents left him for living expenses. What he didn't expect was an extreme change in the neighborhood. Let's just say basketball is now universally enjoyed in that area whereas there was a love for mayo sandwiches when we were young. The value of the houses has dropped, even with the rest of the housing market going up. My guess is someone from the neighborhood is going to solve his longevity problem for him. The time to sell was a decade ago when the area was just starting to change and his dad had died.

>>21416990
blame woke real estate agents, the practice of steering is now taboo,

>>21416753
>working 2 full time jobs or a full-time plus a part-time has become the norm.
Not in the first world though

>>21402803 (OP)
you forgot sales tax! In my state that $9.25 sandwich would cost a whopping $9.99!

>>21402803 (OP)
>Is it just lazy morons wasting their money?
That's the human experience.

It all makes sense when you realize at least 73% of all of humanity are basically Canopic Jars.

>>21417399
>73% of all of humanity are basically Canopic Jars.
I'm not your mummy.

>>21417401
ayyyyyyyy

>>21416961
from what I've heard it depends, if this is the first time this has happened to your account you're automatically reimbursed. But if somehow you've been having the same problem over and over, there's some automatic flagging process that will mark you as suspicious and not only do you not get reimbursed but potentially could get your account banned. This happened to a guy I know at work, he got unlucky with drivers four times in a month and got banned because they thought he was running some sort of scam imo (this is just me speculating, all I know is he got an email saying he was displaying sufficient suspicious behaviour to be banned).