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Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study

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I’ve noticed a sizable decrease in Amazon Prime delivery speed and quality this year. Items often see their delivery window constantly pushed back, even to the next day. Some items have gone missing. Some arrived damaged. A far cry from the early days. Waiting for the inevitable price increase to counterbalance the decreased service.

Shortage of desperate labor for gig work. Uber, DoorDash, Amazon deliveries, etc.

Amazon could just switch to USPS for the last mile, they choose not to for profitmaxxing. Only lasts so long as the prime working age cohort continues to shrink in the US, pushing wages up.

Amazon to Expand Robot-Making Capacity With New, $100-Million Indiana Hub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830376 - September 2026

Amazon bumps minimum starting pay to $20/hour, adds new discount for employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729915 - September 2026

Soon they’re going to be flying large, noisy drones over our houses and apartments all day.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/texas-residents-are-fed-up-with-a...

Can always ban them, it’s a regulatory choice.

Crack down on illegals and no more cheap workers.

Definitely a component as undocumented workers drain from the labor force.

DoorDash: Unauthorized Dasher “Backdooring” Scheme Props Up Delivery Operations, Undermines Safety, and Unravels as Immigration Enforcement Widens - https://culperresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Culper... - October 23rd, 2025

Uber and Lyft estimates for wait time are wildly inaccurate. My tin foil hat says its a way to get you to commit and commit to the upgraded priority.

Walmart https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/walmart-vows-not-use-cust...

Now we need Uber to commit to it.

Gas prices up, less people driving in Uber?

+ less people drinking, decreasing demand side of equation. Next domino = PE backed car washes

> PE backed car washes

I can't tell if this is a joke or a sign that the good lord needs to cleanse the earth with fire

Both :-). That said, uber/lyft drivers are key subscription revenue for car washes. It's a cost of doing business. Decrease in uber/Lyft drivers should correlate with a decrease in car wash revenue

In the last few years, I have not had a single Uber ride from the airport to my house (15 mins) cost less than $60. Sometimes it's as high as $120. I recently went back to carpooling and being social.

Uber has over 30k employees... why? The service quality has not increased in a decade.

Ride apps are on an enshittification speedrun, worse than virtually any other company or service out there.

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