Post by account_disabled on Feb 13, 2024 23:59:05 GMT -6
The on local business listings and telling furious business owners its on them to request removal of these unauthorized links. Grubhubs awkward refutation and subsequent cancellation of the appearance of cybersquatting i.e. buying up the domain names of its customers. Doordash cited for pickpocketing its drivers tips Uber Eats cited for giving no thought to safety inspections and delivering food from unvetted backyard BBQers. Most recently and perhaps most infamously Doordash cited for unauthorizedly scraping restaurant website menus and opening the door to bizarre pizza arbitrage. This last example published by Ranjan Roy received hundreds of frustrated comments but it was the epic statement of.
Collin Wallace that glued me to my screen and deserves Iceland Email List excerpting here I was the former Head of Innovation at Grubhub so I have seen the truth behind many of these claims first hand. Sadly I invented a lot of the food delivery technologies that are now being used for evilCOVID is exposing the fact that delivery platforms are not actually in the business of delivery. They are in the business of finance... like payday lenders for restaurants and drivers In the case of restaurants these platforms slowly siphon off your customers and then charge you to have access to them. customers to your competitor across the street but dont worry they are also selling their customers to you.
For drivers they are banking on a workforce that is willing to mortgage their assets like cars and time well below market value in exchange for money now. They know that most delivery drivers are simply not doing the math...If they did drivers would realize that they are actually the ones subsidizing the cost of delivery. Delivery platforms are hypergrowth businesses that are trying to grow into a nogrowth industry. Food consumption really only grows at the rate of population growth so if you want to grow faster than that you have to take market share from someone else.
Collin Wallace that glued me to my screen and deserves Iceland Email List excerpting here I was the former Head of Innovation at Grubhub so I have seen the truth behind many of these claims first hand. Sadly I invented a lot of the food delivery technologies that are now being used for evilCOVID is exposing the fact that delivery platforms are not actually in the business of delivery. They are in the business of finance... like payday lenders for restaurants and drivers In the case of restaurants these platforms slowly siphon off your customers and then charge you to have access to them. customers to your competitor across the street but dont worry they are also selling their customers to you.
For drivers they are banking on a workforce that is willing to mortgage their assets like cars and time well below market value in exchange for money now. They know that most delivery drivers are simply not doing the math...If they did drivers would realize that they are actually the ones subsidizing the cost of delivery. Delivery platforms are hypergrowth businesses that are trying to grow into a nogrowth industry. Food consumption really only grows at the rate of population growth so if you want to grow faster than that you have to take market share from someone else.