Are delivery distances getting longer?
I’ve noticed an odd tend lately, that being a significant increase in both 7-8 mile orders and 10+ miles orders. Did DD increase their delivery distance?
Posted Apr 29, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC
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It seems to me that all they want to give me is $8-10+ miles for $5.50. it's impossible to make $1/mile anymore and the fact that I did 900 deliveries from January - July last year and I'm still not at 1,000 proves it.
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Not here.
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That's how it's always been in my market. Doordash doesn't seem to have a very good share of restaurants around here. So instead they let people order 16-20 miles away. This isn't the sticks, either. One of the densest metros in the US.
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That’s how OC California is now. Customers are allowed to order from exceedingly far restaurants. Funny thing is that these are customers who would be ordering delivery regardless, so increasing delivery radius doesn’t increase DD’s revenue.
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They will increase the range when there are an over saturation of drivers in your area. It's a supply and demand algorithm. When they have a surplus of drivers they need too create orders. They do this by increasing the range of deliveries. Source: doordash support me. PM me if you want me too forward you the support email it goes into more explanation
Why not just post it here for everyone to read?
I’m hesitant to believe this as DD support is known for pulling explanations out of they’re ass or outright lying to drivers. But I guess when the company has a CEO who is clueless about how to run a multi billion dollar company anything is possible.