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Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by nogahelena »

obibring wrote: post #139

Market consolidation would limit competition and hurt consumers so I'm glad they were purchased by an external player. But local restaurants are still hurting from exorbitant fees and something needs to be done to help. Shameless plug: I'm working on a chrome extension that compares the price of your order across delivery services to get you the best price. We'll soon be linking to restaurants' websites to let people…

i love this idea! anything that tilts the power back into the hands of local businesses is def needed during times like this.

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by omerg »

obibring wrote: post #139

Market consolidation would limit competition and hurt consumers so I'm glad they were purchased by an external player. But local restaurants are still hurting from exorbitant fees and something needs to be done to help. Shameless plug: I'm working on a chrome extension that compares the price of your order across delivery services to get you the best price. We'll soon be linking to restaurants' websites to let people…

love this :) is there a mobile app in the works?

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

replyguy912 wrote: post #56
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #44

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I prefer Grubhub/Seamless in NYC. They're typically on bicycles or scooters and will bring the order up to your apartment door. Uber Eats people usually want you to come down outside so they don't have to double-park. I'm not giving you a $10 delivery tip to drive my Five Guys order eight blocks.. You gotta get out and come up the stairs to my door.

or you could, ya know, walk 8 blocks and keep the restaurant in business, but hey, we all have our limits.

the alternative is that I don't order from the restaurant at all. it's pretty simple

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by ngoldberg »

obibring wrote: post #139

Market consolidation would limit competition and hurt consumers so I'm glad they were purchased by an external player. But local restaurants are still hurting from exorbitant fees and something needs to be done to help. Shameless plug: I'm working on a chrome extension that compares the price of your order across delivery services to get you the best price. We'll soon be linking to restaurants' websites to let people…

I totally agree. By the way, I checked out the extension you are working on and it’s amazing. This is a no brainer solution and I expect it to go viral. Kudos on thinking about it and sharing it! Exciting...!

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by Melting_Harps »

JAlexoid wrote: post #94
Melting_Harps wrote: post #61

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Disclaimer: I'm not advocating this and I'm in no way condoning such behaviour with the following. From what I saw when they did updates, usually on Friday evenings during the dinner rush no less, the system would crash and result in any and all current orders being essentially undeliverable as the app crashed and often you couldn't log in or out of the system nation-wide for 30 mins to hours later. Furthermore, as I…

I'm highly sceptical about his prospects, mostly because of the upfront cost of being moral.(you'd have to pay $15/hr to a driver in NYC) Unless he decided to go immoral and shaft the delivery people.(Having seen how much abuse undocumented waiters and delivery people suffer from the restaurants)

> I'm highly sceptical about his prospects...

I'm not entirely sure who you're referring to in your response, or if that was even directed at my response.

Could you elaborate on what exactly it is you're talking about?

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by Avalaxy »

markus92 wrote: post #97
ErikHuisman wrote: post #76

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Aah thuisbezorgd/takeaway does squad domains so grubhub will fit right in.

You got a source for that or some other reading material? Never witnessed it myself so just curious.

I think this is an example: https://www.afhaalrestaurantpikantochicken-rotterdam.nl/

Its a place that's on thuisbezorgd but has no own website. Just this shady ridiculously long URL that is an exact copy of the thuisbezorgd page, with a thuisbezorgd banner on it.

If we do a whois on the URL, the registrar is TAKEAWAY.COM (so thuisbezorgd) who happens to have 90,237 more domains: https://whois.domaintools.com/afhaalrestaurantpikantochicken....

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by Avalaxy »

mcv wrote: post #110
ErikHuisman wrote: post #76

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Aah thuisbezorgd/takeaway does squad domains so grubhub will fit right in.

They do? I didn't know that. I only know them from their Dutch branch Thuisbezorgd, which seems fairly decent, and has contracts with connected restaurants. Quite recently they've been under attack for abusing their near-monopoly (they do have Deliveroo and Uber Eats as competitors, as well many independent restaurants; many connected restaurants also have their own site) by raising their margins, putting pressure on…

I think this is an example: https://www.afhaalrestaurantpikantochicken-rotterdam.nl/

Its a place that's on thuisbezorgd but has no own website. Just this shady ridiculously long URL that is an exact copy of the thuisbezorgd page, with a thuisbezorgd banner on it.

If we do a whois on the URL, the registrar is TAKEAWAY.COM (so thuisbezorgd) who happens to have 90,237 more domains: https://whois.domaintools.com/afhaalrestaurantpikantochicken....

Re: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

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Post by assafe »

obibring wrote: post #139

Market consolidation would limit competition and hurt consumers so I'm glad they were purchased by an external player. But local restaurants are still hurting from exorbitant fees and something needs to be done to help. Shameless plug: I'm working on a chrome extension that compares the price of your order across delivery services to get you the best price. We'll soon be linking to restaurants' websites to let people…

Amazing app just saved $18! Thank you for this!!

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Post by Closi »

megablast wrote: post #74
Closi wrote: post #70

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One of the things that article overlooks though is that almost all multinational companies wouldn’t be what they are today without acquisition and inorganic growth. Even that article says it: if Google avoided acquisitions they wouldn’t have Android and YouTube. Disney wouldn’t have Pixar and Fox. The biggest companies in the world would be different - and for the surviving multinationals often their acquisitions def…

How different would Disney be without Pixar? Not different at all. And fox? Too early to tell.

As a massive Disney fan, the parks would be very different! Almost all new rides in the parks are based on Pixar / Marvel / Fox properties.

Firstly Pixar - The Pixar brand pretty much turned around the failing 'California Adventure' after the 'Pixar Pier' conversion. Toy Story alone has more rides than any other movie with Midway Mania, Slinky Dog Dash, RC Racer, Toy Soldiers Parachutes and Slinky Dog Zig-Zag Spin. The French pavilion in Epcot is getting Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure (which is already in Paris). There would be no crush coaster, no Radiator Springs Racers...

Disney probably wouldn't have entire areas of their park dedicated to Pandora and Star Wars, both of which were after the aquisitions of Fox (Avatar) and Lucasfilm (Star wars). Both Florida and California have Guardians of the Galaxy rides enabled by the acquisition of Marvel, and are planning more Marvel based attractions.

Bob Iger realised that just licencing these properties wasn't good enough - only ownership of the brand can protect Disney's long term interests ('What if pixar decides just to stop making Toy Story? Or refuses to licence their next hot property? Or gets acquired by our competitor?').

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Post by JAlexoid »

Melting_Harps wrote: post #145
JAlexoid wrote: post #94

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I'm highly sceptical about his prospects, mostly because of the upfront cost of being moral.(you'd have to pay $15/hr to a driver in NYC) Unless he decided to go immoral and shaft the delivery people.(Having seen how much abuse undocumented waiters and delivery people suffer from the restaurants)

> I'm highly sceptical about his prospects... I'm not entirely sure who you're referring to in your response, or if that was even directed at my response. Could you elaborate on what exactly it is you're talking about?

Your last statement about the guy that was planning on starting his own delivery service.
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