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Skip was so much better than Just Eat, too. Skip has Uber-style live GPS tracking, Just Eat seemed to be stuck in the dark ages.

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Just Eat is the most "commercial" among food delivery services I've seen in UK - they are very much focused on agreements with suppliers and coverage rather than UX. They figured that range and availability are more important to the average customer than a subpar web UI.

At the moment they are clearly winning (at least here), so they might be right. They have quite a bit of cash and are buying out smaller players for coverage across US and EU.

Do you mean GPS tracking of your takeaway delivery?

I've never understood why someone would want to be glued to their phone/tablet watching every move their pizza makes. Seriously, just why would you possibly care what street it's currently on?

It seems like a violation of the privacy of other customers, too. Everywhere your food stops you can surmise there was another delivery.

DPD in the UK offer this functionality, it offers an ETA and the GPS location of the driver.

This is particularly useful for me as I then know when to listen out for the door, and I've confidence in the ETA knowing they're just a street away from me.

At least Uber Eats only seems to show it when you're up next. The driver often starts appearing not at the restaurant but somewhere else.

In cities this shouldn't be easy to track anyway. And then you could also jsut follow the Uber bike. Don't think that the fact that someone ordered food is private (what they ordered might be).

"Can I go to the bathroom now or will they ring the doorbell in 30 seconds"

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