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Can't help but think of this article[0], which summarizes the food delivery market pretty nicely.

"You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. It's used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expenses. The companies unload their capital cannons on customer acquisition, while this week’s Uber-Grubhub news reminds us, the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable?"

[0] https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...

parent ruddct 6 years ago

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