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A comment on DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020). Parent comment

Re:DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020) by shagie on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:50PM (#32090198)
An EBT card often has one's name on it. Or a credit card. Or maybe a frequent customer card from the store itself.

There are many options to provide sufficient identification. The goal would be to have something that disconnects the person who is getting the food from the 3rd party delivery and allows the restaurant to charge the 3rd party delivery an additional premium.

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Re:DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020) by lotsofpulp on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:40AM (#32092088)
Sure, but I am not sure how it relates to my statement disputing that a business verifying the recipient of products/services is the payer is dystopian.
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Re:DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020) by shagie on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:12PM (#32097927)
Having had someone pick up my pizza order and a sub order in the past (be it an innocent mistake of a similar looking order or someone stealing my order), I don't exactly consider this dystopian to verify that the pickup order is the same as the person who placed the order.

It puts some addition friction and costs on 3rd party companies doing deliveries that the restaurant doesn't have a partnership with.

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