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A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16

74 points| kkotak | 5 years ago |theverge.com | reply

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[+] hanging|5 years ago|reply

  GrubHub... lost $33.4 million over the last 3 months. (In fairness: COVID-19.)
I don't understand the qualifier. Hasn't Covid-19 been a boon to delivery services? If they can't profit during these artificially beneficial market conditions (boosted demand and endless supply of minions to do delivery), how can they ever profit?
[+] boublepop|5 years ago|reply
They are engineered to take a loss. If market conditions improve they ramp up costs. It’s not a game to maximize profits yet, it’s a game of trying to maximize vale extracted from losses.
[+] weare138|5 years ago|reply
I'm guessing it's because of so many of the restaurants being closed in urban areas during the lockdown and people having less money to spend on things like takeout.
[+] someluccc|5 years ago|reply
I live in Colombia. A couple years ago right before a new funding round (I guess looking to pump the revenue numbers), Rappi offered 50% cash back on unlimited purchases, up to $1000 per purchase. Bought a few iPhones and netted like 10k reselling them on FB, lot’s of people did too. How’s that for CAC.
[+] exabrial|5 years ago|reply
Yelp is another one of the trash companies that's acquired their customer base through bullying small business owners. They're welcome to piss off as well.