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Reddit forums are awash with people seeking help for their self-prescribed online food delivery addictions.
“It’s getting exhausting having to fight my mind every day to not buy something to eat. It feels like an intrusive thought – boom, I can’t stop thinking about ordering food for the rest of the day. Even if I eat something at home,” says one user.
“It’s been to the point where I would order two to three times a day,” another user wrote. “$50 orders each, for weeks on end.”
is this a wide spread thing ? or a beat up ?
is it this, or house prices causing cost of living concerns ? (sarcasm)
Declaring where I am at , I have never ordered online here in Australia. Way to lazy and they seem expensive. I have occasionally when OS.
In terms of Uber Eats specifically, another rising problem is the lack of competition. Menulog is dead and there are concerns about DoorDash’s future too. Of course, the obvious answer is to not rely on these services at all but we all know many people will not do that. We are going to end up with another monopoly in the food delivery space and this will become an even bigger problem.