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Re:The problem with third-party delivery platforms by mrkirk on Saturday May 02, 2020 @04:23PM (#23054619)
The middleman nightmare. Everybody wants to capture the middleman, which drains those that deliver value. That can be applied to Airbnb, Ubereats, car dealership, gig economy. These platforms have very low liability regarding labor cost and controls the access to the goods offered. This whole gig economy is putting small businesses and workers in a position where the information asymmetry is so huge that is putting them in constant price pressure, below the reasonable to be worth operating. It’s too much competition on small business and workers.
Re:The problem with third-party delivery platforms by heliheliheli on Saturday May 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#23054850)
Convenience of delivery is a big point of improvement though, which the restaurants never used to compete on before. It's become commonplace to complain about the middle-men like Uber and seamless now, but before they came around the analog services that existed (taxis and restaurant delivery) were so much worse.