Deliveroo agrees £2.9bn takeover by US rival DoorDash

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/deliveroo-agrees-ps2-9bn-takeover-by-us-rival-doordash-b2745452.html

by Primary-Effect-3691

27 comments

  1. Oh god.

    The tipping is going to get out of hand. Drivers smashing food against peoples doors because no tip was left.

    People expecting a £15 tip for a £20 order.

    The horror.

  2. From now on let’s boycott deliveroo as well because it became an American company

  3. I wonder if they’ll care who their delivery riders and drivers really are?

  4. The country would be so much better without Justeat or Deliveroo.

    How are they so popular with the cost of living? McDonald’s is about 40% price to get it delivered.

  5. Just the natural course of things. Deliveroo bailing in time before the collapse. While doordash thinks they’ll be able to magically squeeze more profit by having a larger market share. Guess which one is the winner here.

  7. I noticed a house down the road from me had a McDonald’s delivery sitting on their step all day yesterday, I’m not sure if it was the laziness or the food waste which annoyed me more.

  8. The US takeover of any British company worth of value continues. Utterly ridiculous how the government allows this sort of thing to happen.

  9. One sketchy company gets bought out by another even sketchier company. Great.

  10. Honestly I can’t see a way that Deliveroo gets worse. I feel bad for their admin / customer service teams, who are probably about to lose their jobs or have them made a lot worse by a bunch of corporate American bullshit.

    Otherwise, for the consumer, it’ll just be the same problems but with less oversight and less chance for refunds / complaints.

  11. Local place near me marks up prices by nearly 40% on Deliveroo. Now i run numbers before using it and im like “nope”

  12. Love it.

    So that’s 1000s of illegal migrants given jobs and a reason to come to the UK.

    Now a handful of London elite get £billions without tax.

    Then a US company buys it up to exploit further.

    This is the whole problem with global capitalism in one neat little scenario.

  13. How do any of these companies have any money at all? I thought they were consistently posting losses year on year?

  14. Oh boy, another British company getting taken over by a foreign entity.

  15. Another company to get ruined by the Americans. I’ll add them to the list.

  16. Could they not have merged with a European rival FFS. So that’s more profits leaving the country to America

  17. Those arseholes still owe me ten quid. It’s been four years and it still grates.

    Then there was the guy on Reddit who ordered a full shop and they cancelled literally every item except for an onion!

    https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/goyicMwRpI

    Maybe they’ll get better after this is, but I’mI’m not going to find out.

  18. The amount of junk food people are eating now compared to even just 10 years ago is unbelievable. I’m really not looking forward to seeing what will happen to the NHS in a few years. 

  19. People’s laziness (and willingness to pay for it) knows no bounds .

  20. Use Deliveroo maybe twice a month, don’t think I’ll be using it again

  21. After hearing the DoorDash horror stories from the US it’ll be time to delete the app and yet more UK money disappearing off to the US.

    I used it exclusively when doing my hybrid working days in an office in the middle of an industrial park. The closest place to get food; the greasy burger van in front of Wickes. The high street was 4 miles away, so to save time i’d use Deliveroo on the days i forgot lunch.

  22. Regardless of who owns it, you shouldn’t be using these apps. They just enable illegal migrants.

  23. Ban these extorting ‘gig economy’ services.

    They turn a blind eye to who they employ and dodge any responsibility by hiding within loopholes.

  24. Now there’s no British interest, they should immediately regulate for tighter regulation of working conditions and right to work in the sector. No point in privatising profits overseas while socialising the harms!

  25. Now there’s no British interest, the Govt should immediately regulate for tighter regulation of working conditions and right to work in the sector. No point in privatising profits overseas while socialising the harms!

  26. I swear every time a UK / EU startup does well, they just get bought out by some US firm.

  27. Sad to see another British company fall to US ownership.

    Not that I’m a fan of any of the food delivery parasite companies.

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