Burrito Delivery Makes No Sense
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/technology/uber-postmates-delivery-apps.html?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20201113&inst
The economics of delivery apps stinks. Uber is offering to buy the food delivery company Postmates to make it stink a little less — for them. It’s annoying that everything big companies do is shrouded in mystery and obfuscation. I’ll give you some straight talk. Why is Uber offering to buy the food delivery company Postmates ? Why did a big European food delivery company decide to purchase the owner of Grubhub and Seamless ? Because the economics of delivering restaurant meals in the United (...)