I’m glad we made all those laws about monopolies and stuff. Would be bad if one were to be created in any sector in this country. But with hard work, and a watchful agency, we can protect ourselves from those dangers.
Sure glad it’s all still working. ಠ_ಠ
instacart already barely pays its instore shoppers, something to do with what kind of orders are given to them. also different chains grocery will probably limit how much instacarts are in a grocery chain at anyone time.
they started even before amazon had thier instore shoppers(now wf shoppers), and they dint really get big at all.
Now watch as they lobby for right-of-way in tax-free pedestrian walkways.
Cool. Previously I never used two companies.
Now I only have to never use one.
Perfect.
DoorRash to buy InstaFart.
Yay! Higher fees for customers and businesses, lower wages for workers, more profit for corporations! The system works!
You feeling that trickle down too? Tastes like gatorade lol.
Why’s it smell like sewage?
Ingredients: 100% Concentrated Billionaire’s piss
Pretty sure there’s some shit in there too…
Revised
Ingredients: 100% Concentrated Billionaire’s pissIngredients:
99.9% Concentrated Billionaire’s piss
0.01% Fecal matter and fecal matter derivatives
You forgot microplastics
Lol, I did, look Im not the FDA, okay lol
Yeah, shit, why?
Its got electrolytes!
Holy shit just the maneurisms in that movie would make it impossible to get anything in one take without laughing.
They did so well.
Its a hilarious scene lol. So many others too
Yeah, that guy on the right is barely keeping it together; can barely get through a 3-second meme.
If they can afford to buy out competitors, they aren’t paying drivers and employees enough
The article doesn’t say how they’re planning to pay for Instacart. They could be planning to take on billions of dollars in debt for all we know.
That still means the same thing though. If they’re planning to take billions of debt, they and their lender think they’re either making good money today or they’d be making it in the future. Or in other words they can either pay their workers more today or in the future. 😁
Or they are going to do the typical private equity thing and transfer the debt to instacart as soon as they are acquired and then use the debt as an excuse for instacart to go bankrupt in a few years (or months) and walk away one competitor less in the market.
And they won’t make any money on that?
They’ll get a hell of a tax break too
Oh no they will, once you’ve enshittified the business you operate, you have to enshittify the entire business sector, during all of that you have to enshittify our government agencies in order to trade your corporate dumps on the populace for cash.
“Capitalism! It’s working for someone!”
If they pull the private equity BS, door dash will make loads while instacart posts nothing but losses ‘for unknown reasons, probably just a downturn in the market or something’.
It’s never about what they can do, only what they want to do.
Remember when we had functional anti trust investigations? I miss those days. I miss Linda 😭
I get my groceries delivered once a month from Instacart because I’m blind, so if I wanted to go grocery shopping myself, I would have to spend money on an Uber to take me there, then get a shopping assistant to help me pick up the stuff I need, and then pay for an Uber back home, so it actually ends up being cheaper to just get it delivered, and I can see what I’m purchasing in the app.
i see where its disabled people use apps like prime whole food shopping too. its useful for these people. also well off people use it to, so they dont have to spend time to go to the store when they are working at home.
Where I’m from we have services for folks like you through our local grocery stores, I wish that was the case everywhere. The people that work for the grocery stores get paid better too.
Anti-trust bullshit will be the death of us if we don’t get our poop in a group
Hey ABC News, the word that you were looking for is Monopoly.
Came here to make the same comment lol
That’s fucking bullshit! Anti-competitive, monopolistic practices like this should be blocked by the anti-trust laws that we have in place to protect against precisely this!
What the fuck.
This is obviously a resounding win for the workers and customers, right?
Right?
Careful, you’ll have cherrypickers coming in to defend/tell you how wrong you are for disliking “gig economy” apps when they’re a literal scam meant to keep the middle and lower classes subservient.
These cherrypickers are apparently making bank just doing these deliveries though, and we totally shouldn’t question their methods, how many apps they actually work for, or whether they’re just straight up lying.
I hate doordash, Ubereats, grubhub, any of them. It’s such bullshit to be constantly accepting orders that pay literally $2.50 for driving them a coffee from the one place they need it from across the county.
If you are using either of these companies you kinda get what you deserve.
Gross. Let’s bring back the Bull Moose party and start busting up all these shitty megacorporations!
I’m no journalist, but something tells me ‘consolidation’ is the correct term for acquiring another corporation.
