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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.
I’ve personally never used one of those apps, and I don’t intend to. But I’m a bit of an outlier for this kind of stuff. I could give my reasons, the response from ‘normal’ people would just be “yeah, but …”
I wouldn’t be surprised if “some” Australians are spending absurd amounts of money on… well… anything really. There’s a lot of people in Australia, and so if you look for someone with a trait like that, you’ll probably find someone. And I also wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people had allowed themselves to be deskilled in terms of meal organisation and food preparation to the point that they now are reliant on a service that has burrowed its way into their psyche. … Not sure how widespread that is though.