• sue_me_please@awful.systems
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    It’s not just the delivery fees, it’s the markup of the food. It used to be that you paid the same menu prices for delivery or pickup, and the only additional fee was the tip for the delivery driver if you didn’t pick it up yourself.

    Here we have the food being significantly marked up (a Whopper meal is usually ~$8 dollars depending on where you are, not $18), on top of a delivery fee, on top of platform fee, on top of a delivery tip.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t use them, but this is a false dichotomy. It isn’t “don’t use them or shut up”, I’m going to talk about the blatant price gouging whether you like it or not.

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            You’re paying for convenience for literally everything, and this price gouging has effects on the market as a whole by raising price points.

            If delivery apps find that people will pay 30% more for a Big Mac, plus several additional fees and tip, it only makes sense for McDonald’s to eventually raise Big Mac prices by 0-30%, minus any fee or tip because there are none.

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            11 months ago

            Yep. Car, bike, bus, or buy food and cook. There are ways of not destroying the planet that exist

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                I use public transport and walk

                I live in a small city

                I am a dad

                It is very hard

                You don’t even understand your own world

                I cannot imagine myself taking the car to eat, once at a restaurant myself.

                If I ride the car it is to transport big or many things.

                I would not be able to give my kids the best future I can

                Also, I don’t get how this opinion and lifestyle makes you a personal attacking swine? Like grow up?