DoorDash is offering $17 billion to buy Instacart to supercharge its grocery delivery business in what would be a big consolidation in grocery delivery
because the demand for these services is growing rapidly.
where i live tons of people basically live off doordash and other delivery services. my own neighbors order it 1-2 times a day. on my block of maybe 50+ apartments, there are deliveries from drivers basically every 20m, during dinner/lunch hours often there are multiple drivers dropping off at the same time.
many folks I have met are spending well over $1000+ per month on these services.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use these services at least a few times a month. millions and millions of people are using them and many of those people are totally addicted.
I ordered it last night because I had to work OT and didn’t get home until 7:30pm, and I was starving. and for $25 bucks I got two meals worth of delicious hot food at my door in 20m.
Thats wild. I instacart maybe 3 times a year but have done it for years in a pinch.
Haven’t used any other food delivery for years because they’re a complete ripoff.
$25 for two meals is kinda meh, it seems good relative to everything else now but you can make a weeks worth of food with $20 and the right veggies, noodles, and a protein.
If you discount or coupon shop you can get even better.
Unfortunately most people in the US don’t respect themselves enough to fight for the rights and wages to not have to work 60 hours a week and then they get convenient overpriced food.
if you need to worry about that kind of money you are too poor to use these services. That’s fine, your not the target demo.
The people using them typically make over 100K+ a year and for them time is money. They don’t shop in stores, they don’t cook, and they don’t do take-out either. They dine-in or do delivery. For every meal.
For people making 10K a month, spending 2K a month on delivery food is 20% of their income. It’s entirely affordable. They are also spending 4-5K on rent/mortgage. A lot of them are young people making 100K and living with 3 roommates so they have like 8K+ in disposable income.
I spend maybe $100 month on delivery, during the pandemic it was closer to $300 because I dind’t have the option of dining out anywhere.
You can find it outrageous all you want, doesn’t mean it isn’t a growth industry. I don’t buy first class plane tickets or stay in $1000/night hotels, but those markets are also booming.
so why do you care if other people use it? it saves them time and they have the money to burn.
clearing six figures for a couple isn’t very much in 2026 dude. you’re not even in the top quartile of incomes. you only make more more than like 70% of americans. The people I am talking about are make 100K by themselves at like the age of 25, and are making 300-400K as couples in their 30s/40s. I clean 150K by myself and I am poor compared to most folks in my city.
you can be angry about it all you want but other people have the money to ‘waste’. for those people time is the most limited resource and they would rather not spend 10 hours a week shopping and cooking.
How is this even possible?
Door dash sucks ass. Instacart has been the only delivery service I’ve never had an issue with around my area and now it’s fucked too?
I don’t get it
because the demand for these services is growing rapidly.
where i live tons of people basically live off doordash and other delivery services. my own neighbors order it 1-2 times a day. on my block of maybe 50+ apartments, there are deliveries from drivers basically every 20m, during dinner/lunch hours often there are multiple drivers dropping off at the same time.
many folks I have met are spending well over $1000+ per month on these services.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use these services at least a few times a month. millions and millions of people are using them and many of those people are totally addicted.
I ordered it last night because I had to work OT and didn’t get home until 7:30pm, and I was starving. and for $25 bucks I got two meals worth of delicious hot food at my door in 20m.
Thats wild. I instacart maybe 3 times a year but have done it for years in a pinch.
Haven’t used any other food delivery for years because they’re a complete ripoff.
$25 for two meals is kinda meh, it seems good relative to everything else now but you can make a weeks worth of food with $20 and the right veggies, noodles, and a protein.
If you discount or coupon shop you can get even better.
Unfortunately most people in the US don’t respect themselves enough to fight for the rights and wages to not have to work 60 hours a week and then they get convenient overpriced food.
if you need to worry about that kind of money you are too poor to use these services. That’s fine, your not the target demo.
The people using them typically make over 100K+ a year and for them time is money. They don’t shop in stores, they don’t cook, and they don’t do take-out either. They dine-in or do delivery. For every meal.
For people making 10K a month, spending 2K a month on delivery food is 20% of their income. It’s entirely affordable. They are also spending 4-5K on rent/mortgage. A lot of them are young people making 100K and living with 3 roommates so they have like 8K+ in disposable income.
I spend maybe $100 month on delivery, during the pandemic it was closer to $300 because I dind’t have the option of dining out anywhere.
You can find it outrageous all you want, doesn’t mean it isn’t a growth industry. I don’t buy first class plane tickets or stay in $1000/night hotels, but those markets are also booming.
Try again lol.
Wife and I clear 6 figures easy.
That shit is still a massive waste of money and it barely even saves time half the damn time because the drivers are awful.
so why do you care if other people use it? it saves them time and they have the money to burn.
clearing six figures for a couple isn’t very much in 2026 dude. you’re not even in the top quartile of incomes. you only make more more than like 70% of americans. The people I am talking about are make 100K by themselves at like the age of 25, and are making 300-400K as couples in their 30s/40s. I clean 150K by myself and I am poor compared to most folks in my city.
you can be angry about it all you want but other people have the money to ‘waste’. for those people time is the most limited resource and they would rather not spend 10 hours a week shopping and cooking.
All I said was it’s a waste of money, if that feels like a personal attack, that sucks.