Post #1935201

2026-04-27 04:42 UTC

The only things I have delivered to me are packages and envelopes through the mail. Granted, I am GenX, but I can’t recall a single time in the last half a decade where I’ve had anything like food delivered. Or used the services of any kind of gig company. And I simply can’t think of any benefit of doing so. It’s horrendously expensive, and simply not worth the expense.

Replies (5)

@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 14:50

I'm not against delivering services. Just gig jobs. Lots of people really need these. Like disabled people and the elderly. But those two groups are least able to afford it.

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@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2026-04-27 21:08

You're GenX and have never had a pizza or Chinese food delivered!? Do you live in the sticks? Town I live in now has never had a delivery restaurant (weird for a tourist town) and nobody runs Uber eats or whatever, but when I was a kid in suburbia delivery food was super common, mostly pizza and Chinese.

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@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2026-04-27 17:59

I found out my family were having fast food delivered by some service, and stomped on that immediately. Walk your lazy ass the two blocks to the pizza shop.

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@village604@adultswim.fan 2026-04-27 16:37

There are definitely use cases for delivery services, like the whole family having COVID and such.

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@onthesolivine@fedia.io 2026-04-27 10:05

For me at least, the people at my city's taxis are sometimes quite rude to me, whereas I've never had an issue with getting Uber. I feel a lot safer with them than with the regular taxis.

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