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DoorDash Is Hiking Customer Fees to Pay for a Law It Helped Write
- whoisburbansky 6y agoDoes anybody else understand how DoorDash isn't swimming in money? They seem to extract value from every side of the transaction, underpaying drivers, stealing tips, charging the restaurants fees, charging the customers fees, and yet still somehow only posted a (tiny) profit for the first time last November (which, given Covid, seems to be driven more by larger economic trends rather than soundness of business model). Do they just spend all that money on developers and advertising?
- lazylizard 6y agoyou used to do it for free. drive out and have a meal or buy groceries. now imagine paying yourself to do that. how much are you paid per hour? other than scale. nothing has actually changed in the economics of going out to have a meal or buy groceries in a long time? and doordash doesn't have a much different way to do it from your own. you drive and buy groceries? doordash is doing the same. scale might mean doordash might buy groceries for more than 1 customer per trip.. putting goodwill aside, how much would your neighbor need to pay you to buy groceries/takeout for her as well?