@loki said in Doordash vs. Direct:
All the start ups are losing money like crazy, let’s just say that the prices we get are subsidized by investors. That era is over. There are increasing volumes of articles about millennials who have built a lifestyle around free news, cheap Uber, cheap Airbnb whatever…. And now the costs are spiraling up to the actual cost once all the middlemen are paid off.
I think at the end of the process which is still a problem as George pointed out…. Is that labor and middlemen are expensive and all the anomalies will sort out and the inherit less cost of you going direct or picking up the stuff yourself will be reflected in what you pay.
In a vacuum, that's true of a lot of things. But what happens when those companies run out of investor money is that they simply go under.
In the case of Doordash, Grubhub, etc., COVID was an absolute boon to their businesses. I suspect they'll be fine, and prices aren't going to spike all that much. Especially when the smart restaurants are hitting back with more unique ways of staying in business.
