• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If you don’t like delivery fees then go pick it up yourself. It’s always been this way.

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      11 months ago

      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

        Yes so stop using these stupid apps. Get in your car, drive the 5 minutes it takes to get there, and order it straight from the restaurant.

        Otherwise you’re spending a fortune to be lazy. No point complaining about the prices if you can’t pry yourself off from your couch.

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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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            11 months ago

            Talk about it all you want. As long as there are idiots out there supporting the business it will be around and will continue to price gouge. It’s the entire nature of the business and it won’t be going away.

            You’re paying for convenience. I just don’t see the point in complaining about it.

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              11 months ago

              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

            Ya driving to get food is so iNsAnE.

            Better to just starve to death instead.