So lately [as in in the past month or so June 05, 2021] doordash has made some.... "price changes"... in some of their restaurant menus. One such example is in the cost of buying subway through doordash vs. ordering in person at an actual subway. The price of doordash is $2-4 [american] MORE than the physical locations. Seen below are the prices for the local subway near me:
These prices are recent as of the date above, and have not changed. Let us compare some of these to doordash prices as of today [august 2, 2021]. Seen below are just their "Popular items" list:
One can immediately see that the cost of several sandwiches are able to be compared, seen in the chart below:
We can see that some items have seen an alarming increase in price, like the Italian BMT, the Roasted Turkey, and Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki. And the Spicy Italian costs .10Cents less? Wait what?? BTW "Spicy Italian is my S/O's nickname for me when we were dating... just kidding, I never had a s/o because we live in the matrix. At least we MUST live in the matrix, because how else can you explain these insane price hikes?
I would bet you are thinking "Weeeelll, actually... they charge more because you are having the food delivered." To which the neko cat in my head says: UwU what are you talking about? silly goose, that is what the fees and delivery costs are for when you go to the payment page! The ridiculous price hike makes zero sense. Specially considering that Doordash had their prices much closer to the stores costs back in May and April 2021.
There was a sudden hike in price across many different restaurants [including other places than subway like McDonalds as well] without any cause or reason. This hike also happened to occur right after the Covid19 restrictions were removed and people were being let back out into the public. Now I am not one for conspiracy theory, but it seems kind of shady that at the EXACT SAME TIME that everyone was going back to work, leaving the home, making more money, and able to afford more food and delivery; that Doordash suddenly jacked up their prices. There is supply and demand, and then there is flat out throwing out a spike strip on the highway to force drivers to take the toll roads.
Now onto the main concern here, these price increases bring up three main issues:
1. competition from other services.
charging an almost 50% price hike across the board for most of their restaurants is rediculous, specially when Uber Eats already charges a double charge fee [they basically charge a fee equal to twice the cost of whatever you try to order], and other services charge low costs. Doordash charging a rediculously huge cost across the board makes them less desireable to potential consumers, and thus costs them membership costs and delivery orders. losing profits is bad for the business AND the people who serve it.
2. it results in decreased comsumption hurting the businesses.
when people see that it costs them an arm and a leg to buy a small sandwich, they are unlikely to make large orders. buying less hurts the businesses suported by Doordash and their employees. It also causes people to spend more then that may want and can cause people to not be able to afford things they need. It negatively affects the businesses AND consumers.
3. it makes Doordash look like total and complete a$$holes.
"we cannot afford to pay our drivers." "our drivers do not earn enough." "our employees want more pay." "we cannot pay more." "Doordash delivery drivers complain about lack of deliveries and not making enough to even pay for gas."
Meanwhile me: *screams while pounding head on desk*
When Doordash is jacking up their prices roughly 50% of the ACTUAL COST, and this is a cost separate from the delivery fees, tip, taxes, and general fees, how can they IN ANY RIGHT SENSE OF MIND, say they cannot afford to pay their drivers more? This money does not go back to the business, it goes into the pockets of Doordash along with the fees and costs you pay when you go to the payment page.
Doordash makes double payment from consumers now due to raised costs, and every purchase nets them HUGE amounts of excess funds that they rightly could use to fix their own infrastructure issues. Instead they likely pocket this incredulous amount of extra money and never will give their drivers a reasonable pay for their hard work or time given. If you work for Doordash and ESPECIALLY Uber Eats [as they charge TWICE the cost of your meals as fees and pocket it], and expect more money for your hard work, they DEFINITELY have the money. They just refuse to pay it.
You want change? Share this information, make sure that people see it and know, bring the injustice to light, and make sure that Doordash sees you all doing so on social media. change only happens when enough people do the right thing and the right people now change is needed.
I have been starting walking to subway when I want a footlong, because it is NOT worth it to pay $25.00 to wait for someone to likely never bring my food. Specially when I can buy the same thing for less than HALF the cost.
