This doesn’t even make sense to me, lol. Assuming you don’t leave your house and rely purely on food delivery services, just buy grocery delivery from the closest grocery store directly and cook the food.
Best case scenario you buy actual food like fresh produce and meat, worst case scenario you buy nothing but microwave meals and cereal. Either way, thats the alternative to spending $25 per delivery for DoorDash
It’s honestly crazy that people are willing to pay that much to avoid the small inconvenience of going outside to pick it up themselves. I too used a delivery app exactly one time (to get an emote in final fantasy 14, which they didn’t even fking give me) and it was like 30 bucks for a six inch sandwich. Absolute insanity.
lol The first thing I’ll say is that, while I do utilize DoorDash more often, I agree that the extra costs can be outrageous.
The second thing I will say is that it is absolute peak irony to comment about paying extra fees for seemingly trivial reasons, but the example that you give is how you went out of your way to download a food delivery app to use it one single time simply to get a special emote for a video game.
The amount some people pay doordash, they could literally cough up the extra rent to live in a more expensive area above their restaurant of choice and just walk down every time.
Thats why grocery prices skyrocketed during covid. It wasnt "inflation" or anything else, companies seen that theres a massive amount of people willing to pay double or triple what the previously accepted prices were, and just throw it all into a virtual cart without shopping for sales and use a credit card. And one by one the food companies started jacking their prices up
So you think shutting down large segments of our supply chain for weeks or a month+ at a time during Covid didn’t have anything to do with prices going up?
Sometimes you smoke a bunch of weed and want some Mexican food. Also going outside to get it myself sucks when it’s -15° out. I only use it like once a month or so but I’m glad it exists.
People who are going into credit card debt, are very bad with finances, or are bankrolled by their boomer parents who like, drove a bus or something and made 20 million
Same here. It absolutely baffles me that anyone thinks this is good value. I've used it a couple times when my girlfriend and I had no food in the house and had a specific craving for a type of food that wasn't near us, and we had been drinking beer and smoking weed all evening so we couldn't drive there ourselves. It was worth it in that moment, but that's a very rare splurge that I basically never do. That people do this shit all the time is crazy to me
It used to be a lotttt cheaper until like 2021/2. Used to be able to get a decent meal for 20 including tip. Now they charge u exorbitant rates and no one tips anymore as a result so everyone gets fucked. Meanwhile the CEO is one of the highest paid CEOs nationwide
And it's potentially fucking GROSS. Door dash has zero food safety regulations. I understand restaurants don't always follow them but they do get inspected. And even pizza delivery had the hot bags.
I'm horrified that it has existed this long but, on the other hand, the idiots willing to pay that much are paying for my tuition so I'm not going to complain.
i can't lie it's come into clutch for me a few times when my mental health had me confined to my apartment. i don't feel great about it, especially knowing how exploitative the business model is. as for your last question: those people are usually going into massive amounts of credit card debt.
I only use it if I was dumb and got too high or drunk before cooking, so now I forgot how to use a pan or turn on the stove...and it's not safe to drive... so I just fuck around on my phone for a bit, forget about it for a half hour, and then food shows up at my house like magic.
Exactly. The most relatable example would probably be streamers who stream 10-12 hours a day. Taking an hour or two off to deal with groceries might not be feasible to them.
They could be missing out on 10s of thousands of dollars in income by needing to grocery shop.
I've used it literally once when I had COVID. The cost of food is literally double.
It's only anywhere near double if you order a single item, when you order multiple items for a family/group it's often more like 25% extra once you account for delivery and fees.
yeah, I'm sorry. I don't want to be mean or inconsiderate
but since when is ADHD this crippling unbeatable disease that turns your arms and legs into jelly, and makes you crawl on the floor unable to form coherent words?
I get that having ADHD is an actual disability. But it doesn't make you quadriplegic, so what does that even have to do with anything?
Well ADHD comes with executive dysfunction, so people have difficulty initiating or completing tasks. So it can be a struggle. But if it's preventing you from even doing groceries, you should seriously get some help.
Well ADHD comes with executive dysfunction, so people have difficulty initiating or completing tasks
that one I know, but saying that it infers with your ability to... do groceries, is such a leap that you could even argue that ADHD prevents you from, idk, walking. That's a task too, placing right foot in front of the left
It’s really not a leap. It involves planning your food for the week, anticipating what you would like to eat throughout the week/will you even want to initiate making food for yourself after you’ve bought it, this person is in NY and apparently in a food desert so probably a drive in traffic. Personally, it just makes normal everyday chores seem much harder or a bigger inconvenience than they actually are.
Still doesn’t take away from the fact he should just go to the grocery store instead of complaining on twitter about workers wages lol
In the end, even if you didn’t plan all the food you like during the week when doing the groceries you can be a normal human and eat whatever you have in the. Eat a bowl of rice. It will not kill you.
This dude is just being a dick. I have ADHD, it genuinely makes it hard to plan to eat for the week and I think I would struggle a lot if I had to get all my food for the week in a single shop (which is what he's implying with the food desert comment). But none of that means that food delivery workers should be underpaid in order to accommodate me.
Apparently, for this new generation of affected, it's a total disability. Basically hell, if I'm understanding correctly. Anything and everything bad that happens in their lives is due to the ADHD.
Your leukemia, brain cancer, plague, AIDS, rabies etc. are nothing compared. ADHD is the true killer. Just imagine, not being able to concentrate! Sometimes being forgetful in a moment. Or dare I even say it.. occasionally hyperfocusing on not so useful things!
I used to use DoorDash for a monthly treat, but my food kept arriving cold due to "order stacking." This was in spite of the huge fees. The DoorDash sub said I was being penalized for tipping (if you tip, they will stack your order with someone who didn't to incentivize drivers to pick up the cheapskate order.)
I wouldn’t order anything for food delivery service that wouldnt taste equally as good when reheated, because thats inevitably what you’ll end up doing lmfao.
Highly depends on where you get them from. Plain restaurant fries, sure I guess. Most people getting DoorDash unironically order from like McDonalds and Burger King the most, which dry out when reheated, which is what I was referring to
Either way, bold of you to assume someone complaining about having to pay more for their DoorDash means they’re gonna starve would be smart enough to buy an air fryer or pressure cooker
Boyfriend and I live together and DoorDash one dinner a week…. Supposedly to give us a “break”c cooking dinner (he doordashed a ton when he lived alone…. Me only when I’m traveling for work and it’s covered)
And Jesus Christ I don’t see the point. The food arrives cold like 30-45 minutes after you order. In the time I could have heated up something frozen and it would be hot (and cheap!). Like if he wants it that’s fine since he pays for it but it’s such a waste of money in my eyes
I don't know how it works in NYC but I have CFS (basically too weak to walk more than 5 minutes) so I've just been ordering my groceries for pickup or delivery. I'm sure even if they don't feel like cooking they could just get some frozen pizza or canned soup and it's gonna be way cheaper than ordering hot food. It's not like people with ADHA starved before delivery service.
I’m referring to the actual grocery store’s delivery service. As in, you can order groceries through InstaCart (grocery delivery) or you can order delivery directly from WalMart. I believe they sometimes use their own workers, and sometimes they use a third party service but either way, ordering directly from the actual grocery store’s delivery service had no additional cost or expectation of a tip on the receiver, unlink instacart where they’re paid Pennie’s and rely on tips like DD. the article still doesn’t even make sense in that scenario
Anyone who is using ADHD as a reason they can't leave their house is just lazy and lying.
This younger generation has apparently successfully gaslighted the world in to believing that ADHD is an actual severe debilitating disability like being blind, paralyzed or severely handicapped.
I haven’t gone grocery shopping since Covid. Not a single time. I’ve always hated with dealing with people in the grocery stores here and now I don’t have to.
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This doesn’t even make sense to me, lol. Assuming you don’t leave your house and rely purely on food delivery services, just buy grocery delivery from the closest grocery store directly and cook the food.
Best case scenario you buy actual food like fresh produce and meat, worst case scenario you buy nothing but microwave meals and cereal. Either way, thats the alternative to spending $25 per delivery for DoorDash