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Or, it is the age of social distancing. Just order it to a random address and steal it off the porch/lobby area.
Majority of the liquor ordered using a phished account goes here – so sketchy: https://www.google.com/maps/place/101+bowery+st/@40.7176021,...
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So money laundering
Clearly the hotel business is a thin cover. One reviewer mentions dust as though the room hadn't been used recently. The reviews are incredible. https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...
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What was the deal? You pay 5,000, the owner gave you back your 5,000 and kept the 15,000 as profit from door dash? The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?
> The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything? We’re in the midst of a pandemic. The restaurant stays afloat, nothing more. The shelter got a donation, and I got promises of comped deliveries and catering. It cost me $5,000; it cost DoorDash over twenty thousand.
The real arbitrage opportunity is for a competitor to DoorDash to place orders through DoorDash, and pay the delivery person a small fee plus let the delivery person collect the DoorDash fee. You could scale this up to huge numbers. Curious if doing so would survive a lawsuit. On the one hand, DoorDash could argue that it's unfair competition, but only by admitting that their deliveries are priced too low, which itse…
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How many transient backpackers actually work for these companies to fund their immediate journeys and what do they have to do with a debate on localized externalities that they never experience?
No idea. It is probably not anywhere near the number of salaried employees who bully local governments into passing wage laws they will never experience the unintended consequences of. Yet somehow they still feel entitled to decide for other people what working arrangements they should be allowed to make for themselves.
Very important note (near the bottom of the post) on why Doordash did what they did: > Note 1: We found out afterward that was all the result of a “demand test” by Doordash. They have a test period where they scrape the restaurant’s website and don’t charge any fees to anyone, so they can ideally go to the restaurant with positive order data to then get the restaurant signed onto the platform.
I cut this deal with my neighborhood Italian restaurant! I texted the owner about being miffed they hadn’t told me they were on DoorDash. He replied. They aren’t. We compared pricing, and found the prices advertised are way off from what the restaurant charges. So I placed a $5,000 order to the neighbourhood homeless shelter. DoorDash paid him over $20,000, and I get free pasta for the rest of the year. (My neighbour…
Saudi money (via SoftBank) is paying for poor people's food (and also subsidizing their transportation, via Uber).
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> The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything? We’re in the midst of a pandemic. The restaurant stays afloat, nothing more. The shelter got a donation, and I got promises of comped deliveries and catering. It cost me $5,000; it cost DoorDash over twenty thousand.
That’s fine, I wasn’t trying to expose you, I just wanted to understand. It looks like everyone is happy, the restaurant gets cash, the shelter gets food, and you get... a lot of pizza for the rest of your life! I don’t think I’ve eaten 5,000$ worth of pizza in my life so far haha
No worries. I don’t feel anyone did anything wrong here.
> a lot of pizza
Orecchiette and Nebbiolo :).
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The automated system should say "weight, that can't be right". Works fairly reliably in supermarkets, especially if you allow a bigger margin of uncertainty on sku weight. Or verify the volume/shape - or both, like volumetric weight that shipping companies use. I'm guessing amazon has some system to automatically assign boxes based on the dimensions of stuff that's being picked.
> Works fairly reliably in supermarkets No it doesn’t. Not just because they can be badly calibrated, but also because the range of weight they have to deal with must make it hard to manage any sane range. The only SCO I’ve seen doing a decent job at dealing with weight use a binary check (“was there any product at all added to the to total weight of the basket ?”) and they still miss products like lollipops or anyth…
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>does anyone actually order franchise pizza on an app I do. I find the app to be a much nicer experience. I see all the available coupons/deals in a list instead of the 1-2 deals the phone person wants to guide me towards. With an app I can start and order and my family/friends can have an extended conversation to figure out exactly what we want on our pizza, what sides/drinks/etc. And in a pinch, we can completely s…
I imagine the OP meant through the DoorDash app? Recently, I've used the Dominos, Papa Johns, or Pizza Hut apps, which are, you know, fine enough, they get the job done, but critically: there's no surcharge beyond what you'd pay over the phone. I would be confused why anyone would buy a chain pizza like this through DoorDash (or a similar service). Beyond the one tenuous benefit of not having to install another app;…
Papa Johns is listed on Deliveroo. I often order PJs through Deliveroo when I'm hungry and don't want to think too much.
It costs more in money, it costs less in cognitive load. I know what I'm getting as far as the food is concerned, PJs is remarkably consistent, and I don't need to bother signing up for a new account with someone, working out payment details, etc.
You'd be surprised how many people like myself exist. Not everyone has every aspect of their financial life fully optimised. This is one area where I definitely have room for improvement.
In the mean time, Deliveroo ensures that when I'm exhausted at the end of a long week, I'm only a few clicks away from repeating my last PJs order and my Friday lunch pizza will arrive with minimal effort.