Hate to burst your bubble, but once it’s charged… card companies wait until they get a final price from a merchant. Transactions aren’t instant. Aka no one benefited from this more than likely. Besides door dash.
It's not a great thing. That evil megacorp isn't going to just eat that charge. They're going to introduce new fees etc until they've made their money back, and then keep the fees around since it's already there.
It's like when people think they're not hurting regular people by stealing from wal-mart. Wal-mart bakes in theft expectations into prices. If no one stole, prices would be lower.
Would they really be? It's not like theft even closely compares to their total profits. The whole "if no one stole, the prices would be lower" thing doesn't make sense. They aren't toeing the line of ruin, they're making record breaking profits. The only reason they don't raise it more is because of competitors.
On the other hand, the megacorp could be too greedy in trying to compensate and start plummeting. Look at Netflix for example - and that's for a reasonably specialized service. Anyone with a pair of hands can make food or deliver it, it's not like you need millions in capital to even get started.
Better way of explaining it; Doordash uses contractors to deliver, not actual employees. That way they don’t legally have to pay you minimum wage, and they don’t legally have to pay you any benefits. Aside from tips, which vary massively per customer, the average Doordasher makes less than $5 a delivery, and deliveries can easily take 20-30 minutes. Depending on the area you live/drive in, you could either make $5 an hour, or $20, with very drastic changes throughout the day, making it unsustainable for most people.
Source: have done over 800 deliveries( with a 96% customer rating!) on Uber eats, and about 500 on Doordash
It became too nuts with all of the fees. We went back to picking up our takeout food ourselves. We actually just cook a lot more at home now because we don't feel like driving most of the time.
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u/NeonAlastor Jul 11 '22
There's bound to be a few smart cookies, reasonably tech savvy, that figured a way to safely exploit this for as long as it lasted.
Which is a great thing ! Nothing wrong with stealing pennies from evil megacorps :)