Is Deliveroo still a sponsor?

[Rourke]

How come clubs don't do due diligence before taking money from a shyster ?

Just following HQ's lead

[saynta]

From the age.com.au

"All hail the demise of Deliveroo - now bring on the end of delivery culture
Michael Koziolr
November 19, 2022 — 5.00am



We shouldn’t dance on the grave of Deliveroo so soon after its death, if only because people have lost their jobs, thousands have lost their source of income and, just on principle, celebrating the failure of others is generally considered a breach of taste.

However, I’m now going to do exactly that.
The apps have a way of making you feel you’ve earned their convenience even when you resolutely did not.

The apps have a way of making you feel you’ve earned their convenience even when you resolutely did not.Credit:Steven Siewert

It turns out the Australian market cannot sustain the plethora of food delivery services that have cropped up in the past decade, and that can only be a good thing. There are still enough people willing to leave their house for sustenance that four big delivery players has proven too many.

I am something of an outlier in this regard. I’ve never used UberEats, Menulog, DoorDash or any of these apps that have become ubiquitous on the phones of my fellow Millennials. A couple of weeks ago at a party I met another delivery app refusenik my age; it was like encountering a member of the Maquis in Vichy France.

Since I last wrote about this topic, the number of services created to foment and reward laziness has only increased. In addition to the well-established alcohol delivery companies, we now have Milkrun - though maybe not for much longer - which will deliver your groceries and booze in just minutes.

To be fair, there are circumstances in which Milkrun can be useful - you’re hosting a dinner party and you’ve forgotten a crucial ingredient, you can’t really leave and you’d rather not send a guest on an errand. Fair enough. What a time to be alive when a courier can instantly bring you a red onion and a sprig of rosemary.
Our takeaway food habits have gone to the dogs.

Our takeaway food habits have gone to the dogs. Credit:iStock

But let’s not beat about the bush here, our love affair with delivery apps is mostly born of plain old indolence. Any excuse will do - long day at work, it’s raining outside, my cat is asleep on top of me. The apps have a way of making you feel you’ve earned their convenience even when you resolutely did not.

It’s almost a point of pride in Millennial culture; you sometimes see people boast, if that’s the right term, about how they were so exhausted they DoorDashed their chicken pad see ew from a Thai restaurant three blocks away.
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Or you might witness their explosive frustration when an order is delayed or mixed up or cancelled, as if it were an injustice worthy of The Hague. It’s a burrito, people - it’s not the end of the world.
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Not only have the apps tickled our penchant for rapid gratification, they’ve accustomed us to infinite choice. Yes, you could walk to the high street and choose from half a dozen local restaurants - or you could browse hundreds on your phone. The tech companies and evangelists want us to believe this is optimal living. But overwhelming choice is not necessarily the utopia some think it is.

I’m not a complete Luddite; I use the streaming services and I think it’s a vast improvement on the days when television meant five free-to-air channels and cable if you could afford it. But streaming is arguably at its best when a new episode of the latest craze drops and everyone’s talking about it the next day - in other words, when it resembles TV.

Infinite choice and personal convenience lead us away from shared, collective experience. Food delivery is anti-social: even if you were only going to trudge up the street to pick something up, that’s an activity which involves interactions with other people, however cursory. Staying home chips away at the public square.

As pandemic lockdowns and hibernation ended, the return to “real life” was always going to disadvantage the apps that encourage us to stay home. In the US, DoorDash’s share price dropped from a high of $US246 ($367) in November 2021 to $US43 in October. Uber’s has now halved from its high above $US60 in the first half of 2021.
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Reporting on the end of America’s obsession with food delivery earlier this year, NBC speculated several factors were involved; the end of COVID and the renaissance of restaurants, yes, but also inflation and frustration with higher prices and charges on the apps.

Deliveroo’s demise is hardly the end of delivery culture - it’s probably just a boon for competitors. It would be great, though, if it marked a point at which Millennials pivoted away from our reliance on having food pumped in by underpaid couriers and embraced the DIY world of browsing, discovery, happenstance and randomness - you know, the real world.

The evidence is mixed but some surveys both in Australia and overseas suggest Generation Z might be slightly less inclined than Millennials to use food delivery apps. Perhaps if UberEats started delivering reusable water bottles or therapy sessions, that would change.

At any rate, it seems clear Zoomers are not significantly more likely to use the apps than their predecessors, arresting this notion that technological convenience is on a linear and unrelenting march through our lives. And once again, that’s probably a good thing.

So, farewell Deliveroo - I hardly knew ye. I don’t think I missed out on all that much.

[asiu]

haha

that was a good read

finally , lol ... a me2 moment

i'm also a ...

delivery app refusenik

nor will i use the self checkouts in any establishment
... PERIOD

give me a real person to interact with
(so as i can support A job)

or i'll take my 'cash' somewhere else

[mr six o'clock]

Now that deliveroo is history and we have taken on CMC Markets as a principal sponsor , will we start receiving calls and advertising from the coaches and players informing us to advantages of crypto currencies ?
And also as Ross the boss as been getting the band back together , will he invite that delusional female (whose name cannot be mentioned , but if she's to be believed babe's , has made squillions from crypto coins and lottery investments ), back to the club in a advisory role .

[D.B.Cooper]

nor will i use the self checkouts in any establishment
... PERIOD

give me a real person to interact with
(so as i can support A job)

or i'll take my 'cash' somewhere else

Or do what everyone else does and scan one, miss one, scan one, miss one….that’ll learn em!

[asiu]

yep

i know of 'that'
its like the boys in Bunnings with false floors in their trailers

not my style but


i much prefer
standing
waiting to pay
with the one human

whilst i practice Patience

[saynta]

nor will i use the self checkouts in any establishment
... PERIOD

give me a real person to interact with
(so as i can support A job)

or i'll take my 'cash' somewhere else

Or do what everyone else does and scan one, miss one, scan one, miss one….that’ll learn em!

Everyone else ?.......Don't think so.

[SaintPav]

Hmm. Interesting.

Rationalising theft.

Shoplifting is a criminal offence.

Nice principles some people live by.

Well I guess you need to make some savings somewhere to pay all those private school fees.

[saynta]

Hmm. Interesting.

Rationalising theft.

Shoplifting is a criminal offence.

Nice principles some people live by.

Well I guess you need to make some savings somewhere to pay all those private school fees.

Are you surprised that some posters on here think that stealing from shops is funny or OK? I'm not.

[SaintPav]

Hmm. Interesting.

Rationalising theft.

Shoplifting is a criminal offence.

Nice principles some people live by.

Well I guess you need to make some savings somewhere to pay all those private school fees.

Are you surprised that some posters on here think that stealing from shops is funny or OK? I'm not.

Am I surprised?

Probably not.

It's theft.

[bobmurray]

I'm not sure it's possible to scan 1 miss 1, i think where you have your bag at the self serve check out is a load scale that works in conjunction with the scanner, if it detects an unscanned weight gain
it won't let you keep scanning.

[skeptic]

Hmm. Interesting.

Rationalising theft.

Shoplifting is a criminal offence.

Nice principles some people live by.

Well I guess you need to make some savings somewhere to pay all those private school fees.

Are you surprised that some posters on here think that stealing from shops is funny or OK? I'm not.

Am I surprised?

Probably not.

It's theft.

I recall that someone on here once posted that if they saw particular forumites crossing the road they would speed up and wouldn’t stop afterwards.

No doubt that such a forumite wouldn’t also feign outrage when it comes to shop theft.

I think the point is that people here say a lot of things… little of it should be taken seriously.

[SaintPav]

Hmm. Interesting.

Rationalising theft.

Shoplifting is a criminal offence.

Nice principles some people live by.

Well I guess you need to make some savings somewhere to pay all those private school fees.

Are you surprised that some posters on here think that stealing from shops is funny or OK? I'm not.

Am I surprised?

Probably not.

It's theft.

I recall that someone on here once posted that if they saw particular forumites crossing the road they would speed up and wouldn’t stop afterwards.

No doubt that such a forumite wouldn’t also feign outrage when it comes to shop theft.

I think the point is that people here say a lot of things… little of it should be taken seriously.

Words create worlds.

[asiu]

Words create worlds.

nice

yep




thought , word , action ='s creation

intensity of each determines timing of manifestation