Food Delivery
Perhaps it’s a generational thing. The price of having food delivery seems outrageous to me. Am I the only one?
Expensive Food Delivery
I see UberEats or GrubHub, or one of the meal delivery services stop at my neighbors at least once or twice a week. During recent visits to Starbucks and McDonald’s, there were food delivery guys picking up orders to deliver.
If I were housebound, or just sick, and needed an order of chicken soup delivered, I’d perfectly understand using these services. But having Dunkin Donuts coffee delivered?!?!
I do ask myself what the difference is of ordering pizza delivery. And for me, the main difference is the cost of delivery. Adding Uber or DoorDash into the mix adds a significant delivery and tip cost.
So strange at the kinds of expenses that I balk at. Every once in a while, I’ll see someone post some of the most beautiful knitting needles from DyakCraft.
But I just can’t force myself to spend $350 for them. Don’t get me wrong, for all the work that Tom and Linda do to make and sell these needles, it’s a very fair price. But I still can’t justify it when I can use my current interchangeable needles just as well. Albeit, not as beautifully.
Similarly, I just don’t think I’m constitutionally able to spend money on taxi-cab food delivery. At least not at this point in my life.
As always, I’m receptive to all other points of view on this.
Current Knitting
Two weeks over initial deadline, and the scarf still isn’t finished.
I’m almost at 64″. But I’ve also decided to make it about 70″ in length.
Trust me, even I am looking forward to my next project. Sorry to bore you with this one for so long.
I did uber eats driving for a bit. It was kind of fun, but I too was amazed when I would delivery a fancy coffee to some tiny obviously low income dwelling. I’m like that must have cost like $12 because the coffee was at least 6 and I got 4 and you know Uber took a chunk…. It’s expensive because you’re paying the driver instead of the driver working for the business like a pizza delivery person. I don’t think you were really asking why it’s expensive though, just why people use it. I suppose I can think of lots of reasons that I would consider “legitimate” —overall cheaper than actually owning a car and driving out to get coffee, just had a baby/surgery, etc, but I do think a fair number of people do it because they are unable to manage their time enough to provide themselves food when they need it. Another hidden cost of ADHD. lol. And it’s all cold by the time you get it despite the silly insulated bags. I twice something like 30 miles away!
I don’t think it is just time management for some, but health as well. I do know someone whose health is precarious and they are physically unable to get to their car to go out to pick up stuff on some days. Sometimes that delivery is the only way that person who has run out of food at home can eat that day. We all think that won’t ever be us….. but it could be. No, it isn’t cheap. But it can be salvation in some circumstances. Grocery delivery also has fees… and while that could be the answer, if you cannot stand at the stove to cook for 15 minutes delivery may be the better choice, albeit at the higher hit to the wallet. I don’t understand ordering a Dunkin Donuts coffee by itself though. I’d at least get some donuts to go with it. This topic does bring up the lack of social safety nets for many.