> These platforms [Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats] are all losing money.
Has this changed? Do all these companies still losing money?
DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
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Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#12Wait what? What's preventing merchants from doing this now? Why even fill the pizza boxes? I must be missing something...
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#13The driver argued the amount of time it would take to come back to return the bag would mean he couldn’t make enough deliveries to “pay my rent”. There you have it. The actual “business model” of Doordash.
Not issuing bags to the contractors seems like a bad business model.
Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#14The driver argued the amount of time it would take to come back to return the bag would mean he couldn’t make enough deliveries to “pay my rent”. There you have it. The actual “business model” of Doordash.
Not issuing bags to the contractors seems like a bad business model.
They do issue insulated bags, they just don’t fit pizza boxes
Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#15Wait what? What's preventing merchants from doing this now? Why even fill the pizza boxes? I must be missing something...
DoorDash created the shop portal with no input from the store, and then put up incorrect prices. If that scenario still exists, they could still do this, but most of the time the store has some kind of deal with DoorDash so they would be responsible for pricing.
As for why fill the boxes, technically DoorDash would be the store's customer, so if you didn't give them what was ordered they could press the issue. It'd be hard to police, as the person making the DoorDash order wouldn't complain, but it adds a way things could fail.
Plus, the post said dough at that scale is practically free.
Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#16sliceline, sort of a rhyme pun
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not issuing bags to the contractors seems like a bad business model.
They do issue insulated bags, they just don’t fit pizza boxes
Not in Australia. No hot bags for any orders including Pizza. It drives me nuts, I never order really now. It’s not cold enough for the food to be stone cold, but it’s like warm at best. Not enjoyable at all.
Using a standard supermarket freezer bag makes a HUGE difference.
I don’t understand how it’s not a hard enforced requirement by doordash, Uber eats, etc. It’s nuts. I have seen it more common in other countries where it gets colder. They’ll have branded delivery bags. Though more often they are also bike couriers rather than cars.
Especially since they so often drop two orders now.
Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#18Would this be wire fraud?
maybe but it didn't happen so it's okay.
That isn't to say it isn't 100% possible, it is.
Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#19did this happen before or after the silicon valley episode
Re: DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
#20Previous discussion: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 - May 2020 (518 comments)
It was posted yesterday to reddit on "Today I Learned" and got over 59,000 upvotes. I knew I had seen it here before and now I'm seeing it here for the third time.