I’m glad we made all those laws about monopolies and stuff. Would be bad if one were to be created in any sector in this country. But with hard work, and a watchful agency, we can protect ourselves from those dangers.
Sure glad it’s all still working. ಠ_ಠ
Cool. Previously I never used two companies.
Now I only have to never use one.
Perfect.
Remember when we had functional anti trust investigations? I miss those days. I miss Linda 😭
This is obviously a resounding win for the workers and customers, right?
Right?
Careful, you’ll have cherrypickers coming in to defend/tell you how wrong you are for disliking “gig economy” apps when they’re a literal scam meant to keep the middle and lower classes subservient.
These cherrypickers are apparently making bank just doing these deliveries though, and we totally shouldn’t question their methods, how many apps they actually work for, or whether they’re just straight up lying.
I hate doordash, Ubereats, grubhub, any of them. It’s such bullshit to be constantly accepting orders that pay literally $2.50 for driving them a coffee from the one place they need it from across the county.
If you are using either of these companies you kinda get what you deserve.
That’s fucking bullshit! Anti-competitive, monopolistic practices like this should be blocked by the anti-trust laws that we have in place to protect against precisely this!
What the fuck.
I get my groceries delivered once a month from Instacart because I’m blind, so if I wanted to go grocery shopping myself, I would have to spend money on an Uber to take me there, then get a shopping assistant to help me pick up the stuff I need, and then pay for an Uber back home, so it actually ends up being cheaper to just get it delivered, and I can see what I’m purchasing in the app.
i see where its disabled people use apps like prime whole food shopping too. its useful for these people. also well off people use it to, so they dont have to spend time to go to the store when they are working at home.
Where I’m from we have services for folks like you through our local grocery stores, I wish that was the case everywhere. The people that work for the grocery stores get paid better too.
This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.
That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.
We don’t have a functioning government. If we did this wouldn’t be allowed along with the other massive consolidations going on.
Another item for the next administration’s checklist: break up all these damn corporate monopolies
That would be nice, but not likely to happen. It would be difficult once they are merged.
I’m no journalist, but something tells me ‘consolidation’ is the correct term for acquiring another corporation.
instacart already barely pays its instore shoppers, something to do with what kind of orders are given to them. also different chains grocery will probably limit how much instacarts are in a grocery chain at anyone time.
they started even before amazon had thier instore shoppers(now wf shoppers), and they dint really get big at all.
It’d only cost 10 billion if they went and picked it up in person.
DoorRash to buy InstaFart.
Anti-trust bullshit will be the death of us if we don’t get our poop in a group
Because competition is bad.
This feels like that bit about Taco Bell in Demolition Man. Idk, who would win each fight?
One network TV: Warner.
One US internet access, the utility and the equipment: FCC Inc.
One social media: Meta (because Elon will get bored and Spaz will sell out, but Zuckerberg only knows how to be the asshole he is in one specific way). Probably.
Blackrock, Health and Food divisions.
One computing component manufacturer: Nvidia.
Never mind how all of the above is supposed to be illegal.
How is this not a monopoly?
Aren’t Uber and SkipTheDishes still separate competitors?
And Grubhub
Now watch as they lobby for right-of-way in tax-free pedestrian walkways.
