Remember when delivery just meant pizza or Chinese food and neither cost a fortune to have someone bring it to you? What’s up with DoorDashing everything? Is this not crazy expensive? Do you guys actually do this??
I did
When I lived and worked up in Monterey, where my office was there literally was nothing but a high end restaurant and a jack in the box closer than 3 or 4 miles and if you went into the touristy part of time, well, lunch was over before you even could sit down.
So I door dashed. I brought food most of the time but on days I didn’t it was easier to have it brought to you.
Came back to So Cal and ‘paused’ my dashpass and have used it like once. I think it is useful when you are sick or just exhausted. And if you are in a hotel in a place you don’t know and just want dinner without leaving the room, few have restaurants any more.
My daughter still does. She works locum/relief vetmed and is in different places ever day she works. She doesn’t often know if there is a frig, where food is, etc. She said DoorDash saves her stomach, LOL
We both actually went for DD too, not uber eats, not grubhub, etc.
I think some people do it too often
I have kept the app, because it is good to use to search for places and see how they compare to Yelp
@blaineg@jouest Well generally they’re cotton, but the print quality issue is that some aren’t holding up in the wash. Shirt.woot isn’t the one running the printers anymore; Amazon is – and the resulting quality can be a roll of the dice depending on who’s operating the equipment that day.
I’ve yet to get a one-wash wonder that some Wooters have received (pretreatment and/or improper curing), but some have arrived streaky (uneven pretreatment and/or clogged print head) and some do show wear after about a dozen washes, which is sooner than I feel a print should, DTG or not.
The vast majority from shirt.woot has been fine, though, with the fabric showing enough wear and/or tear by the time the print looks bad. The aforementioned ones to retire have multiple holes/tears and have been relegated to garage/yard work already; their final purpose is as rags.
@jouest@OnionSoup
THAT is exactly why I don’t have fast/ restaurant food (or anything not factory/manufactured sealed) delivered! Now groceries, that’s another story, and they’ll just take a whole bag of groceries if they’re going to steal.
@jouest@OnionSoup I did food deliveries like this for a few years and I can tell you I never did this once for 3 reasons:
that’s gross
I’m way too busy trying to not make poverty wages to fuck with your food a microsecond more than is absolutely necessary
most, if not all, restaurants seal their orders so it wouldn’t be hard to tell. And in most markets (where yhey aren’t desperate for workers) doordash will ban a driver on the sligbtest hint they’re fucking with customers. Even if a customer just makes up a complaint. So it’s very risky on top of that even if I wanted to
That said, about 30% of the other drivers I met during this were gross crackheads so I think those statistics are probably about right
I have free dash pass from Amazon and it is still not worth it. I did use it a few times a couple of years ago when I broke my right ankle. Obviously I couldn’t get around so I would order three or four meals at once to make it worth all the extra charges.
Anymore, no because Taco Bell should not cost $40.00 (including a tip) for lunch!!
@PooltoyWolf it is a complete racket. I should add that when Amazon added the free dash pass I thought, oh great no extra stupid fees! And logged on to order lunch delivery from TB. Picked my items and it was >$20. No way that is right for TB. Grabbed my TB app and selected the same items it was nearly half the price.
Dash pass does eliminate many fees, but not the per item mark up they add on the menu items
Outside of a few hypothetical situations where you might HAVE to have food delivered for whatever reason, I’ll never use services like DoorDash. It can easily double the cost of your food and for someone who’s already on a fairly tight budget, that doesn’t make sense. I know people who use these food delivery services more often than they go to get their own food and have to wonder where they get all this money they’re throwing at it.
EDIT: I can see how it’s a godsend for disabled folks so they can easily get food delivered, though. That, to me, is a valid use case on a regular basis…if you can afford it.
@PooltoyWolf I don’t do DD but I’ve recently discovered Walmart plus and it is wonderful! I haven’t been able to do my own grocery shopping in a while, the main problem is carrying the bags into the house. (I use one crutch to walk and now have this stupid breathing issue ) My mom (who’s getting up there in age) and my guy had been doing it for years and I hated depending on them for my groceries when they both already do so much. It’s definitely worth the small charge just to have the independence. And, I don’t have to worry about grabbing unneeded items just because they catch my eye or I’m hungry!
@Lynnerizer@PooltoyWolf I love Walmart +!!! Its $99/year and it includes so many other things like gas discounts, paramount+, travel discounts, etc.
I work A LOT and for me it is just convenient to schedule delivery around meetings/calls (I work from home) so I can put away and go about my day protecting my free time. And as L said, saves me from those pesky impulse purchases.
@Lynnerizer@PooltoyWolf@tinamarie1974
King Soops and Safeway both have a subscription delivery service too (same price as Walmart, not sure about those other discounts.) I don’t use it but if I had to, it’s good to know. (No Walmart in town.) I actually like going to the grocery store, usually.
After being a driver for these food delivery services I can tell you most people who use them are either a) at work and can’t leave, b) babies/young kids, have a disability, are elderly, or something else that makes it harder or even impossible to get out of their house/hotel, c) are traveling or otherwise have no car (seriously, you would be surprised how often homeless people use doordash), d) live in the middle of bumfuk nowhere, or e) are really, really lazy
It’s way too expensive for me to bother with even eating out most of the time let alone having it delivered, but for some it makes sense. Probably 50% of customers are just wasting their money for no reason though
Never have and never will. The concept of putting a third party between me and food is just foolish to me. I’ve heard all the arguments, save it, enjoy your door dash, it’s just not for me.
We live in the country, outside the delivery area for any local food delivery service.
OTOH, my wife does most of the grocery shopping for her elderly parents (89 and 96), plus we regularly make meals to take to and share with them. So I guess we are (in a limited sense) the Door Dashers.
My wife used to use all of those types of services (including local options) but there was an incident with something she ordered for lunch that still wasn’t here at dinner time that put her off of third party deliveries. Not one of them was ever “good”, just good enough.
I’ll go get the food because of the extra costs and the extra time involved. Of course I would before doordash too unless I was really busy. 45-90 minutes for delivery but I can go get it in 15? No question I’m doing the dashing myself.
A few weeks ago my wife ordered pizza from the place down the road and somehow doordash got involved with that and the order was messed up. I fear that they may have contracted their deliveries to doordash and fired their local drivers and if so that’s a sad day. My avoidance of doordash will include anyone who involves doordash without me using them myself.
I kind of hate takeout in general, though. I want to go out if I’m dining out. My wife loves to get takeout and eat at home. But usually if something is wrong with an order it’s me that got fucked. It happens so often it’s a running joke with us.
I’ll also never use Instacart. I won’t by choice even use the Walmart or other grocery curbside pickup.
Also, another Doordash story: At an old job I once ran a report on all the corporate cards in the expense system and noticed one exec who averaged over $2200 a month in Doordash charges. On the corporate card.
The same person repeatedly demanded that I cut costs by renegotiating our VOIP contract to remove three extra direct dial numbers for people they laid off. The numbers cost a couple of bucks a month each, like less than $20 total. And renegotiating the contract and losing promo credits would have actually cost about a week worth of their Doordash habit a month extra. I never explained it in those terms though.
I did
When I lived and worked up in Monterey, where my office was there literally was nothing but a high end restaurant and a jack in the box closer than 3 or 4 miles and if you went into the touristy part of time, well, lunch was over before you even could sit down.
So I door dashed. I brought food most of the time but on days I didn’t it was easier to have it brought to you.
Came back to So Cal and ‘paused’ my dashpass and have used it like once. I think it is useful when you are sick or just exhausted. And if you are in a hotel in a place you don’t know and just want dinner without leaving the room, few have restaurants any more.
My daughter still does. She works locum/relief vetmed and is in different places ever day she works. She doesn’t often know if there is a frig, where food is, etc. She said DoorDash saves her stomach, LOL
We both actually went for DD too, not uber eats, not grubhub, etc.
I think some people do it too often
I have kept the app, because it is good to use to search for places and see how they compare to Yelp
tee hee
I rarely eat out due to food allergies, so I don’t. That savings gets better
spentwasted on stuff Idon’tneed.Like catshirts.
@narfcake fast food is temporary, catshirts are forever
@jouest It can be argued that the catshirts may be temporary too.
https://forums.woot.com/t/lets-beat-a-dead-horse-shirt-quality/633476/
(I haven’t had too much of an issue, but some are ready to be retired to rag duty.)
@jouest @narfcake What are those shirts made out of?
@blaineg @jouest Well generally they’re cotton, but the print quality issue is that some aren’t holding up in the wash. Shirt.woot isn’t the one running the printers anymore; Amazon is – and the resulting quality can be a roll of the dice depending on who’s operating the equipment that day.
I’ve yet to get a one-wash wonder that some Wooters have received (pretreatment and/or improper curing), but some have arrived streaky (uneven pretreatment and/or clogged print head) and some do show wear after about a dozen washes, which is sooner than I feel a print should, DTG or not.
The vast majority from shirt.woot has been fine, though, with the fabric showing enough wear and/or tear by the time the print looks bad. The aforementioned ones to retire have multiple holes/tears and have been relegated to garage/yard work already; their final purpose is as rags.
Absolutely not. Waste of money… And we’ve all seen the interviews, they’re all sneaking bites and sips of your drinks.
@OnionSoup wait what
@jouest Articles like this one frequently posted.
https://www.wjct.org/uncategorized/2019/07/1-in-4-food-delivery-drivers-admit-to-eating-your-food/
30% admit stealing food (the other 70% probably lying… Lol… I’ve seen the videos some door dash people have taken showing them sipping on drinks, etc.
Door dash is a big unhygienic “no” from me. I’m not paying a premium to have someone extra nibbling on my food.
@jouest @OnionSoup
THAT is exactly why I don’t have fast/ restaurant food (or anything not factory/manufactured sealed) delivered! Now groceries, that’s another story, and they’ll just take a whole bag of groceries if they’re going to steal.
@jouest @OnionSoup I did food deliveries like this for a few years and I can tell you I never did this once for 3 reasons:
That said, about 30% of the other drivers I met during this were gross crackheads so I think those statistics are probably about right
Nope. The extra costs are not worth it.
@yakkoTDI did you not enjoy your $17 fast food burger??
I have free dash pass from Amazon and it is still not worth it. I did use it a few times a couple of years ago when I broke my right ankle. Obviously I couldn’t get around so I would order three or four meals at once to make it worth all the extra charges.
Anymore, no because Taco Bell should not cost $40.00 (including a tip) for lunch!!
@tinamarie1974 Holy crap!!
@tinamarie1974 I didn’t even know that Amazon has free DD!
@Lynnerizer @tinamarie1974 Yep, for Prime members. Go to the bottom of any page and click “Benefits.”
@PooltoyWolf it is a complete racket. I should add that when Amazon added the free dash pass I thought, oh great no extra stupid fees! And logged on to order lunch delivery from TB. Picked my items and it was >$20. No way that is right for TB. Grabbed my TB app and selected the same items it was nearly half the price.
Dash pass does eliminate many fees, but not the per item mark up they add on the menu items
@tinamarie1974 TIL they also add actual markups to the food items themselves. As if I needed more reasons to stay away…
The only time I door dash is when it’s been a really long road trip and I really, really have to go to the bathroom.
Oh. Probably not what you’re looking for - never mind.
Outside of a few hypothetical situations where you might HAVE to have food delivered for whatever reason, I’ll never use services like DoorDash. It can easily double the cost of your food and for someone who’s already on a fairly tight budget, that doesn’t make sense. I know people who use these food delivery services more often than they go to get their own food and have to wonder where they get all this money they’re throwing at it.
EDIT: I can see how it’s a godsend for disabled folks so they can easily get food delivered, though. That, to me, is a valid use case on a regular basis…if you can afford it.
@PooltoyWolf I don’t do DD but I’ve recently discovered Walmart plus and it is wonderful! I haven’t been able to do my own grocery shopping in a while, the main problem is carrying the bags into the house. (I use one crutch to walk and now have this stupid breathing issue
) My mom (who’s getting up there in age) and my guy had been doing it for years and I hated depending on them for my groceries when they both already do so much. It’s definitely worth the small charge just to have the independence. And, I don’t have to worry about grabbing unneeded items just because they catch my eye or I’m hungry! 
@Lynnerizer That’s a use case that makes sense!
@Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf I love Walmart +!!! Its $99/year and it includes so many other things like gas discounts, paramount+, travel discounts, etc.
I work A LOT and for me it is just convenient to schedule delivery around meetings/calls (I work from home) so I can put away and go about my day protecting my free time. And as L said, saves me from those pesky impulse purchases.
@Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf @tinamarie1974
King Soops and Safeway both have a subscription delivery service too (same price as Walmart, not sure about those other discounts.) I don’t use it but if I had to, it’s good to know. (No Walmart in town.) I actually like going to the grocery store, usually.
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer @tinamarie1974 Same here, shopping is usually fun for me, heh.
After being a driver for these food delivery services I can tell you most people who use them are either a) at work and can’t leave, b) babies/young kids, have a disability, are elderly, or something else that makes it harder or even impossible to get out of their house/hotel, c) are traveling or otherwise have no car (seriously, you would be surprised how often homeless people use doordash), d) live in the middle of bumfuk nowhere, or e) are really, really lazy
It’s way too expensive for me to bother with even eating out most of the time let alone having it delivered, but for some it makes sense. Probably 50% of customers are just wasting their money for no reason though
Never have and never will. The concept of putting a third party between me and food is just foolish to me. I’ve heard all the arguments, save it, enjoy your door dash, it’s just not for me.
We live in the country, outside the delivery area for any local food delivery service.
OTOH, my wife does most of the grocery shopping for her elderly parents (89 and 96), plus we regularly make meals to take to and share with them. So I guess we are (in a limited sense) the Door Dashers.
Nope.
My wife used to use all of those types of services (including local options) but there was an incident with something she ordered for lunch that still wasn’t here at dinner time that put her off of third party deliveries. Not one of them was ever “good”, just good enough.
I’ll go get the food because of the extra costs and the extra time involved. Of course I would before doordash too unless I was really busy. 45-90 minutes for delivery but I can go get it in 15? No question I’m doing the dashing myself.
A few weeks ago my wife ordered pizza from the place down the road and somehow doordash got involved with that and the order was messed up. I fear that they may have contracted their deliveries to doordash and fired their local drivers and if so that’s a sad day. My avoidance of doordash will include anyone who involves doordash without me using them myself.
I kind of hate takeout in general, though. I want to go out if I’m dining out. My wife loves to get takeout and eat at home. But usually if something is wrong with an order it’s me that got fucked. It happens so often it’s a running joke with us.
I’ll also never use Instacart. I won’t by choice even use the Walmart or other grocery curbside pickup.
Oh, and get off my lawn!
Also, another Doordash story: At an old job I once ran a report on all the corporate cards in the expense system and noticed one exec who averaged over $2200 a month in Doordash charges. On the corporate card.
The same person repeatedly demanded that I cut costs by renegotiating our VOIP contract to remove three extra direct dial numbers for people they laid off. The numbers cost a couple of bucks a month each, like less than $20 total. And renegotiating the contract and losing promo credits would have actually cost about a week worth of their Doordash habit a month extra. I never explained it in those terms though.