delivery
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DoorDash ‘Pizza Arbitrage’ Shows The FUBAR Economics Of Delivery Apps
Another sign of how fundamentally screwed the economics underlying the app economy are: It is possible to take advantage of exploitative food delivery platform DoorDash’s efforts to sign up restaurants without their consent to engage de facto “pizza arbitrage,” according to a report by the Margins.
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Lawsuit Accuses Grubhub, Postmates, DoorDash, And Uber Of Unlawfully Driving Up Restaurant Prices
The primary group of food delivery service apps—Postmates, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, which also owns Seamless—are being sued over what the complaint describes as anti-competitive tactics and hefty fees that hurt businesses and customers by limiting consumer choice.
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DoorDash Has A New Plan To Make Workers Gamble On How Much They Will Get Paid
Courier service and notoriously predatory employer DoorDash is still messing with its pay and tipping systems. This time, the company has informed its delivery drivers that it will soon only show them the minimum earnings for each delivery rather than the total earnings, a change dashers worry is an attempt by the company to bait…
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Turns Out Yelp Is Just Changing Restaurant Phone Numbers Now
Little more than a month after it was revealed that Grubhub was screwing with local restaurants in America by buying up thousands of domains that rerouted customers to its own service, a new report claims that the company is also replacing their phone numbers without informing either the businesses or their customers of the practice.