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DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by illuminati1911 »

PedroCandeias wrote: post #10
NaughtyShiba wrote: post #2

As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.

Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?

Depends how you look at it.

Here in China (major cities) delivery is often free and when buying from delivery apps there are additional discount available that you can't get when visiting the restaurant.

So basically it's often cheaper to get food delivered to your home than going to the restaurant itself.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by NaughtyShiba »

PedroCandeias wrote: post #10
NaughtyShiba wrote: post #2

As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.

Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?

Pretty much everything else is under 1.5 euro or free.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by larschdk »

Kkoala wrote: post #13
robert_foss wrote: post #9

Gross. Wolt was in my mind one of the less amoral delivery services. It's delivery staff are (soon to be were I'm sure) actual employees.

The delivery staff definitely aren't/weren't actual employees. They all have some kind of business entity set up that they use to bill Wolt

It's still an open question whether this is legal in some countries, e.g. Denmark. It's being argued heavily that Wolt shouldn't be allowed to avoid pension, payed vacation, and payed sick leave, which are required by law for all workers. The competing Just Eat have just signed a union agreement with couriers which includes full benefits, without increasing prices for customers.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by beefield »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #6
atlasunshrugged wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who has used both Wolt and DoorDash I would say don't hold your breath on decreased fees. Probably it'll just get more opaque and restaurant menu prices will increase 10-20% while the additional fees stay the same so they can book more revenue without you feeling like you're paying more (because who is also googling the restaurant menu at the same time to compare?)

This is exactly what I see happening. Restaurants are increasing prices to cover the “Wolt tax”. My local McDonald’s does this.

Any contract that prohibits price differentiation between sales channels should be flat out illegal. Those kind of contracts are nothing short of evil.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by shafyy »

NaughtyShiba wrote: post #2

As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.

Jesus, this is exactly the problem, If you don't want to pay the people who deliver your food to your lazy ass a fair salary don't use food delivery. Go get your own food.

In my opinion it should be even more than €3 for most deliveries, I think this is subsidized by VC money and unfair conditions to the delivery people.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by tsywke44 »

Wolt was a show of Northern European style software/business development, and it’s why Doordash acquired them.

Now that US big tech has their dirty fingers all over Wolt, I’ll guess all that will be gone in 3 years as the bullshit starts creeping in.

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Post by NaughtyShiba »

rapsey wrote: post #5
NaughtyShiba wrote: post #2

As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.

It definitely won't get cheaper. 3 euros seems a completely reasonable price for this delivery.

Most other deliveries are cheaper even if they are 15mins driving distance. And some of them are free. The only reason McDonalds delivery is 3euros, because they refuse to pay 30% tax - so Wolt puts that tax on end-user.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by NaughtyShiba »

Hamuko wrote: post #15
PedroCandeias wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?

My experiences with Wolt are that the food comes in a car and is not warm.

I once had twister ankle, so couldn't bother walking 3min to pizza place. It took 30mins to deliver it by car, and it arrived cold.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by NaughtyShiba »

shafyy wrote: post #25
NaughtyShiba wrote: post #2

As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.

Jesus, this is exactly the problem, If you don't want to pay the people who deliver your food to your lazy ass a fair salary don't use food delivery. Go get your own food. In my opinion it should be even more than €3 for most deliveries, I think this is subsidized by VC money and unfair conditions to the delivery people.

Wolt charges 3 euros for McD delivery, because McD refuses to pay 30% tax. It's end-user who pays Wolt tax, rather than restaurant.

Re: DoorDash Joins Forces with Wolt

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Post by [deleted] »

PedroCandeias wrote: post #10
NaughtyShiba wrote: post #2

As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.

Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?

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