• @kitnaht
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    1231 month ago

    Thank god. I’ve got too many friends who “can’t afford” anything, but order fucking uber eats almost daily. “woops, spent $70 on taco bell!”, they’ll laugh…

    Shit needs to legitimately stop.

    • @NegativeInf
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      691 month ago

      Of that 70 dollar order, none of it actually pays the driver. So yes. Let the companies die.

      If you really want that ultraprocess garbage spend the ¢50 in gas and drive to the taco bell. The new one by my house even has a mobile order lane separate from the standard ordering lane, so you can at least skip waiting behind the Civic full of baked college bros that forgot what a quesadilla is.

      • @[email protected]
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        271 month ago

        Baked college bros driving to Taco Bell seems like more of a case for convenient delivery options imo, they should not be driving at all

        • @NegativeInf
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          151 month ago

          Good point. I was more roasting my past self in my comment than anything.

          • @ohlaph
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            61 month ago

            I love that for you.

      • @kitnaht
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        51 month ago

        Not only that but it pushes the ‘everything on demand’ mentality. All of these people I know have gained 50 or more pounds since the COVID lockdown, and they got trained to order everything online.

    • mad_asshatter
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      121 month ago

      Got peeps ordering cigarettes, potato chips, chocolate bars, soda…

      “We’re house-poor!!!”

      • @jaybone
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        41 month ago

        And so much avocado toast.

    • @phoneymouse
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      1 month ago

      It really is that price too. You go in the app and start adding like $20 worth of food to buy and somehow by the time you’re done with tax, fees, and tipping it’s $70. Despite this price, your food usually arrives soggy and lukewarm.

      I haven’t used these apps since 2018 when it became pretty apparent what was happening, but some people are REALLY lazy and REALLY bad with money.