How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.
Covid capitalized on it.
People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.
Even when we all know its exploitive labor.
It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).
Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.
It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.
It really depends on the area, usually it depends on the distance. Generally an order like that would probably start at like 4 dollars or something. I have noticed that I can’t really get over like 17-18 dollars per hour when I did doordash, like they would always give you a good order and the bad orders to even it out. I do think doing no tip and then adding it after the fact does make dd pay the drivers more but it would only work if everyone did it
We’re in a kind of small city in SC, with a lot of rural areas around, so that’s probably why we get $2 per offer. We get offers for $2 or $3 dollars with 10+ miles all the time.
I generally average $20 an hour, but I do a lot of grocery shopping, and my wife often goes with me and drives (and helps shop on very large orders), so that speeds the process up. But I also don’t take anything under $5, and nothing less than $1 a mile ($1.50 with gas prices the way they are now).
I agree that tipping after would put pressure on DD to raise the base rate, but with almost 4000 orders over the last few years, I bet less than 5% of the no tip orders have ever added anything after the fact.