The company’s ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew as efforts to stem losses bore fruit.
  • haxe11@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Personally I avoid Uber Eats. It’s way too expensive. I haven’t used the ride share service much for several years. Without looking much into the prices, I feel like they’ve lost much of their edge over traditional taxi service, but I do still like the convenience of being able to use their app almost anywhere in the US, at least. I should probably give Lyft a look at some point.

    • UnfortunateTwist@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I was planning to use rideshare to a place with possibly difficult parking, but the one way cost was $30-some. So that’s about $60 round trip. I decided to drive, with all-day parking costing $16…

      • deo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The only time I uber/lyft is when i’m travelling and won’t be able to take my car ($ uber < $ rental car), or when i’m gonna be drinking ($ uber <<< $ DUI). And even then I can often get a ride from a friend and/or DD…

      • uphillbothways@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        oops. my mistake. it’s become a bit of a workflow to click>hit paywall>copy/paste into archive>paste back link for others. i just didn’t see it. will delete. (edit: … or not based upon author’s request.)