A DoorDash analysis published Monday finds that a number of key goods, including breakfast staples, computers and accessories, toys, and outdoor equipment, have declined in price since 2024.
As Swedish fintech giant Klarna prepares for its IPO this week, investors are closely watching to see if the company can successfully convince the market that it is more than just a “buy now, pay later” firm that finances shopping sprees and food deliveries for Americans with bad credit.
Swedish buy now, pay later (BNPL) fintech giant Klarna has landed a significant deal with food delivery service DoorDash, further solidifying its position in the U.S. market as the company gears up for its upcoming IPO. Thanks to the deal, Americans with no financial literacy can now finance their meal delivery purchases.
Food delivery service DoorDash has reportedly partnered with Alphabet’s Wing drone delivery company to introduce a fast food delivery pilot in Christianburg, Virginia. The company, which typically relies on an army of gig economy workers to deliver food, claims it will now use drones to deliver Wendy’s orders to customers as part of the pilot project.
A new ordinance in Seattle meant to improve wages for food delivery drivers is instead hurting their income, according to the gig economy workers the city set out to help.
DoorDash has implemented a new feature in its app, urging customers to tip when ordering instead of on delivery to avoid delays. According to the company, orders that don’t include a pre-tip are likely to take longer and result in cold fries and warm drinks.
App-based food delivery workers in New York City currently make an average of $7.09 an hour. The city has announced it will increase the minimum wage for these workers to $19.96 an hour.
Ride-sharing service Lyft is reportedly set to cut at least 1,200 more jobs in an attempt to reduce costs.
Food delivery service and gig economy darling DoorDash is laying off 1,250 of its employees in what the CEO says is part of a broader cost-cutting initiative.
A DoorDash delivery worker in Massachusetts took swift action when she found a customer in the middle of an emergency.
A Sioux Falls, South Dakota, resident named Anastasia Elsinger was greeted by someone unexpected at her door on Tuesday when a policeman handed over her Arby’s DoorDash order.
Authorities say a suspect shot an off-duty Milwaukee police detective when the officer stopped the suspect from engaging a victim whose vehicle he attempted to steal moments earlier.
A DoorDash driver in Detroit saved a toddler when he observed the child wandering frigid Eight Mile Road Sunday in only a diaper and a pair of socks.
“Video posted to social media shows a delivery driver tampering with food that had been ordered by an NYPD officer — and now the driver could face charges,” far-left NBC News reports.
Bubba Wallace is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after NASCAR racers on the circuit despite not winning a race since 2017.
In days past, if you were risking your life for low pay, that likely meant you were a soldier. The upside: survival skills, high status, a free college degree, and good benefits. These days, though, you can risk your life for low pay and get none of those benefits, as a member of the pandemic “Gig Economy.”
A recent report claims that delivery apps such as Seamless, GrubHub, and DoorDash are listing restaurants on their services that don’t even offer takeout options.
2019 will go into the books as a bad year for data privacy, as sensitive personal details of many millions of users were leaked, breached, or left wide open by the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe. Breitbart News has collected some of the biggest data breaches of the year.
The online grocery delivery app Instacart is facing an internal rebellion among its sprawling network of gig workers who are unhappy about changes in compensation, including the company’s tipping policy.
The attorney general of Washington, D.C. has just delivered a lawsuit to DoorDash, alleging that the popular food-delivery company skimmed tips from its drivers and misled customers into thinking that their gratuities would end up in drivers’ pockets.
Shares of Uber Technologies Inc. plummeted in after-hours trading Monday and into Tuesday after the ridesharing company reported that it lost a whopping $1.16 billion in the third quarter, exceeding losses from the same quarter last year by 18 percent.
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have unveiled a new ballot measure intended to fight the recently passed California law that will re-classify gig economy workers as employees, potentially devastating their business models which rely on armies of drivers who are treated as contract workers.
Food delivery company DoorDash has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that affects 4.9 million customers, workers, and merchants.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed a controversial bill into law that would reclassify gig workers as employees, potentially disrupting the way numerous Silicon Valley companies including Uber and Lyft do business.
California lawmakers passed a watershed gig employment bill early Wednesday morning, paving the way to dramatically change the way companies like Uber and Lyft do business.
Amazon announced this week that it will end an exploitative tipping practice that counts customer tips towards a driver’s base pay. The e-commerce giant says that drivers will now receive 100 percent of all tips as opposed to those tips going at least partially to Jeff Bezos’ bottom line.
A new report suggests that DoorDash is still withholding tips from its delivery workers, despite promising a month ago to pay drivers the tips customers give them.
A recent report on delivery service DoorDash’s tip-skimming practices have resulted in a class-action lawsuit seeking all the of the tips that didn’t go to drivers as customers intended.
A new study by US Foods found that approximately 28 percent of delivery drivers eat from the meals they courier to consumers’ doorsteps.
A recent exposé on a number of Silicon Valley delivery apps reveals the pressure drivers are put under and how tips meant for drivers are diverted directly to the bottom line by some popular delivery apps, including DoorDash.
The New York state assembly has given Uber, investors, and business groups a huge extra supply of 250,000 illegal immigrant drivers, so depressing wages for Americans and legal immigrants who earn their wages by delivering people, cargo, and food to their destinations.
Three major players are breaking away from the competition in the food delivery service market. Uber Eats, GrubHub, and DoorDash are dominating the emerging industry in a similar fashion to Facebook, Google, and Twitter have dominated social media.
Grocery delivery company Instacart is keeping its $10 minimum per order policy for drivers after an intense wave of criticism following the revelation that the company was lowering pay for drivers based on tips received from customers. Competitors including DoorDash and Amazon Flex are not yet following suit.
