Note I did not buy any food for myself.
To head off questions:
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No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.
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She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.
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We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.
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No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.
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We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.
Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn’t an option, having people not believe I’m sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn’t like down her throat or starving her if she won’t eat it.
By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I’m an awful parent and how I’m not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you’ll find someone else to treat like shit.
Anyway, have fun telling me I’m the worst person on Lemmy, just don’t expect a quick reply.
Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.
I felt bad reading this. Fast food is way too expensive here in 2024. And then you had to write an essay justifying yourself because of all the pedantic jerks who love to pounce on the smallest of things.
And someone already didn’t apparently read it since they told me I should have picked it up myself.
LOL! Of course!
You seem to think you mentioned that not being an option, but you didn’t mention anything about that.
I didn’t think it was necessary to mention that I can’t drive it home in my car what with the “extremely smell sensitive” part.
A pizza inside a car tends to have an odor in my experience. As does all other hot food. It’s generally one of the reasons people like hot food.
“Extremely smell sensitive” just tells me you have a keen sense of smell. Sorry bro, just saying not everyone can read your mind.
TBH that’s a logic fail on your part.
In bullet point (1) we have two important statements
Statement A: “I can’t make the food”
Followed immediately by the explanation…
Statement B: “I am dealing with an illness that makes me unable to eat solid foods and extremely sensitive to smells”
The only way Statements A and B can be related is via the smell. Being unable to EAT solid foods wouldn’t prevent OP from MAKING the food. The only possible explanation is that the sensitivity to smell is what makes them unable.
That’s, like, really basic reading comprehension skills. 🤷
Maybe you’re making an assumption. Maybe he just doesn’t know how to cook?
If that were the case then the other statements within bullet 1 are completely irrelevant, and the relevant information has been omitted. That would be a far greater assumption than taking the statements at face value and connecting the information we have into coherent logic
Maybe you can’t/won’t read an entire prompt before ejaculating your emotional retort?
You’re retro-justifying your mistake, dude; when ‘sorry’ is just faster.
It’s like when you’ve lost the argument and you’re still piping up with “and another thing”.
Exactly like that, actually.
Have you never smelled your car after picking up food? Hell I rarely drive but I’ve done short trips where all I’m doing is picking up food and having it in my car 20 minutes max; even the next evening the smell lingers in my car.
In fact my wife had to put carbon-based air fresheners in her car because she’d reheat steamed vegetable then eat them in the car during her lunches at work.
How is this hard to figure out?
I know all about his Mayo Clinic saga and his rare condition. It’s important for someone like him to be clear about what’s going on, or accept the fact that people are going to suggest things that he can’t do. If he’s not absolutely clear about it, people aren’t going to automatically assume “oh yeah, he must have that rare condition where smelling food makes him feel sick because he said he can’t cook and has sensitive smell. It’s obvious to me after reading that that there’s no way he can go pick up a pizza and not pay $8.60 for delivery.”
Most people in this thread, myself included, already know about his thing, but if someone doesn’t know about it ahead of time, I’m just trying to make the point that hey, this needs to be spelled out. If it’s not spelled out, then don’t get defensive when someone responds with an otherwise reasonable comment.
You’re lucky squiddy here isn’t a mod on this sub or you’d probably already be banned for “trolling” lol
I guess so. Honestly, though, if you have a rare condition and don’t want people suggesting things that you can’t do, it helps to be clear in your communication.
If you go to a restaurant and tell the server “I can’t cook and I’m smell sensitive”, they’re going to say “Ok, you’ve come to the right place”. Instead, tell them “Unfortunately, if I catch a whiff of food I’ll feel sick.” Then the restaurant can see if there’s anything they can do for you.
I just think most people, if they weren’t already aware of his Mayo Clinic saga and his rare condition, wouldn’t guess “oh this guy must have that thing where smelling food makes him feel sick” based on what he wrote. Something that rare and, let’s be honest, strange, needs to be stated clearly if he really wants people to know about it.
I mentioned the fact that he paid $8+ for someone to deliver food, and his response rubbed me as overly defensive – “Some people just don’t bother reading the original list of 5 items, comprehending each one before commenting on my precious post.”
I see this guy around all over the place and he’s always getting into slap fights with people over the dumbest shit lol
The dude mentioned a medical disability, stated he couldn’t eat solid food or cook and you assume he can drive and then criticize him for delivery? He didn’t spell out that he couldn’t drive but it was pretty obvious if you read the post… Say sorry and move on buddy. You’re in the wrong and look like an incel loser when you continue to double down.
The thing about inflation is the food is not expensive, its the value of money that’s gone down. Its salaries that are way too low to afford the new prices. The food isn’t too expensive - employees are being underpaid.
It can be both at the same time which is why the problem is so exacerbated right now.
IMHO all that matters is the difference between the two.
Yeah but that’s an academic, maybe even a pedantic, difference.
people love acting like they’re perfect and always make perfect decisions in these posts. like, you can easily advise the OP and sympathize but people love to be smug instead
Ain’t that the truth.
Yea, pizza places have gotten out of hand in recent years.
Adding a delivery fee (which doesn’t go to the driver) from locations that only do delivery.
How about fuck you and your delivery fee. Which is why I refuse to have pizza delivered any more. Plus they invariably get lost, though we’re a few hundred yards from their store.
Little Seizures sells the same pizza for half the price, or less, than Papa John’s, before those fees are tacked on.
Little Seizures is my second favorite pizza place after Delicious Aneurysm.
Stroke hut is underrated
Pizza with extra sausage. Hand tossed.
Hard to go wrong with a
$5$9 CAD Hot N Ready.
The only LC here is inside a gas station, but I used to love their crazy bread years ago.
I’ve always been too much of a cheapskate curmudgeon to pay for food delivery and I’ve been increasingly baffled by people who pay hundreds of dollars a month to have cold, soggy fast food delivered at an eye watering premium.
I get laziness, I really do. For me, personally, going to pick up food is the lazy option.
Completely agree here. If I do order delivery and it’s a third party delivering I always tip a fortune because I know otherwise they won’t care — and yet it still comes back nasty and cold.
I’m kind of the opposite. The only places that tend to have their own delivery drivers now are pizza joints.
I cannot stand DoorDash, the delivery always sucks but I really don’t blame the drivers. The restaurants that say “we deliver” but then offload that shit to DoorDash, take 50% of the tip piss me off the most. And now the food is nasty because some dude in his car is working up a sweat trying to deliver 16,000 other orders at the same time.
I’m sad you didn’t use my household’s name for the Papa: Poopy John’s
The driver still gets an hourly wage, so they still need to pay them for delivering. I don’t understand how you expect delivery to be the same price as pick up.
Now compare in-house and delivery. What’s a delivery guy but a waiter who won’t come back and refill my root beer? Worst waiter ever.
Well, a waiter that brought your food a really long way. Kinda makes up the difference.
Domino’s where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?
Domino’s where I am just drop your order at the counter. Does yours have waiters?
they get paid like $2/hr when actually out on a delivery, it’s pathetic and is absolutely no reason to justify the fee
The people who order delivery must be subsidized by the pick up customers now?
Because if you pay those wages from the price of the pizza, then everyone is paying for deliveries even if they don’t get pizza delivered.
Notice nobody said the charge is too much, they immediately didn’t want to pay anything
Notice you said something factually wrong, got called out on it, and pivoted to a different argument.
What? It costs money for the delivery. That’s a fact
They don’t get paid minimum wage.
They do, except they have a $5.12 tip allowance
If they don’t make $7.25 an hour the employer must pay the difference
Why would you need to defend yourself for ordering a pizza and being shocked by the high price? Sometimes I think I’ve gotten too old for the internet. People should be allowed to order a pizza every once in a while and not have to formulate a 5 point list of the reasons why it’s okay for them to order pizza.
Have you seen the responses here? Paints a picture on why they felt the need to defend themselves.
Well he didn’t just get takeout for some reason /s
Why would I care what the internet loser has to say about my life? Why should that impact my behavior in any way?
I am also highly irritated by the way this post was formulated. It feels like, having the need to post personal information to justify ordering a pizza so he can ramble about the price.
How can a grown ass man be so insecure about himself. Like what’s the problem with saying fuck I ordered a pizza and damn those fuckers got expensive? Where are we heading, that a grown adult needs to intro everyone with a letter long disclaimer, to justify he bought a pizza.
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How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?
Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”
Nice false equivalence. This isn’t even about negotiating, it’s about looking at the website you’re ordering from and actively trying to save money. Domino’s doesn’t hide their deals, they put them under the tab labeled “deals”. If you don’t have the reading comprehension to find those deals, you may need someone else to order for you.
Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.
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Always gotta find a way to pwn those libs, even when the topic is ordering pizza, jfc, have a personality
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Sure, I’m a bootlicking slut, you really got me. You sound like you weren’t hugged enough so you inject politics into everything, so you have a reason to insult people. You’re in a cult my guy. Like I said, have a personality beyond “libs bad”, it’s pathetic.
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A whole bunch of people have come in to tell me why I should have done things that I already said I wouldn’t be able to do based on those five points, so I suppose you could argue that it wasn’t worth giving them, although I have a feeling even more people would have said “just get takeout” or whatever. Someone even now is telling me to get takeout just put the pizza in a Ziplock.
Did you consider getting takeout?
I did not! Thank you for the suggestion!
That’s a go order!
Take 'em out!
Just ignore the trolls, they have meaningless little lives and nothing better to do than try and make a random person online feel like shit so the trolls can feel like their existence matters in any significant way. Which sucks, as they could probably better focus that time constructively, but instead…this.
Thank you.
???
Pizza is takeout… If they mean picking it up instead of delivery, well yes, you should have.
Again- I am extremely smell sensitive.
I go into the pizza place, I heave.
I carry the pizza to the car, I heave.
I drive with the pizza in the car, I have to keep pulling over to heave.
Why do any of you find that reasonable? Would you want to do that just to give someone a pizza?
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Wow! You also figured out my huge con to tell everybody I’m sick when I’m not. And as a consolation prize for figuring it out second, you get to have an entire paste of what I said to the first guy about how it’s all a big con. Congratulations on both of you for being Sherlock Holmes.
I guess I made up all the posts I made about it in Casual Conversation you’re free to look up, including all the ones I posted while I was at the Mayo Clinic.
It’s been a long con going on since December of 2022.
After all, nothing on the internet is true.
Here you go, here’s a link where I made up being at the Mayo Clinic: https://lemmy.world/post/13867999
Here’s a link on another forum where I completely made up having my gall bladder removed and how that didn’t work: https://forums.mst3k.com/t/whats-your-problem-a-thread-for-griping-part-2-part-1/28111/2520?u=flyingsquid
I’m happy to show you other examples of me completely making this up.
Edit: sorry, you don’t get to see my medical records, but I can probably arrange a video chat with one of my doctors if you’d like. Of course, that will probably just a fake doctor that I’m completely making up.
Edit 2: Check out my amazing Photoshop skills!
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If you want to get a fair price at Dominos, you have to play their game. At least look through the website for special offers on pizza, because the “menu prices” are 2.5x higher than the average price a person pays. After that, if you still want a lower price, search the Internet for coupons (although that doesn’t work as well nowadays since they use account-locked rewards systems instead of coupons).
Even if you play the game, it will still be more expensive than you remember, due to massive inflation.
I don’t go to Dominos any more due to repeated bad customer service, their website malfunctioning in a lot of ways, and the last time I visited the store it smelled strongly like ammonia.
What’s mildly infuriating here is OP… People are trying to explain how you could have saved almost 1/3 of your purchase price and you just argue with them and keep shouting from your soapbox.
Unfortunately, price shopping is a part of every transaction if you are trying to get the best deal. If you aren’t invested enough to read the largest banner on the shop website to save almost 1/3 of your total, then getting the best price was clearly not a concern when you ordered. Yes, you are expected to do that yourself, just like buying anything else in the commerce system we have been using for decades. It’s real boomer/privileged energy expecting that to just be done for you.
I hear you, but OP already said he didn’t use the internet to make the purchase. Honestly, even as a millennial I order out so infrequently that I probably wouldn’t use their site either. Yes, the economic system that has created this reality is the main issue, but that doesn’t mean it’s incorrect to be frustrated at Dominos.
he DID use the internet. He used their website, and still ignored all their deals.
Because I wasn’t trying to get the best deal, I just wanted some damn pizza and, as I have already said, why can’t Domino’s just charge that price? Why is a coupon needed? Please explain to me why that should be necessary rather than Domino’s just charging the lower price, since they obviously can afford to?
It’s real boomer/privileged energy expecting that to just be done for you.
I never asked anyone to do it for me. So I didn’t expect anything.
Is it privileged to have people do it for you when you never asked them to?
Because I wasn’t trying to get the best deal
then why are you mad that you didn’t get the best deal?
I feel like people have to be purposefully missing the point to make comments like this.
You used to be able to just order pizza and it be a reasonable price. If you have to do research and build out a coupon spreadsheet just to get a responsible price, that’s a problem.
This post is a good mildly infuriating post. The pizza does cost too much.
However, it also seems like the poster wasn’t ready for discussion when posting to a discussion board.
Exactly, thanks god. Is mildly infuriating read comments with people reasoning the late stage capitalism practice with basically “git gud” mentality
Idk in the days where you had to call in you still had to ask if they had deals… Otherwise you’re paying menu price (unless the cashier was feeling extra nice)
Sure, I think deals and coupons were always a thing, but there were actually deals. I can’t speak for everyone, but I feel like these “deals” now just take an inflated price and make it reasonable. They’re not a deal so much anymore, just a way to make things somewhat reasonably priced.
I just paid $2.67usd after tax for a large pepperoni Domino’s pizza. That’s a deal.
And not the norm
EXACTLY. This isn’t new or news.
You are expecting dominos to do it for you. That’s literally what you are asking. They aren’t going to do that for you because they make more money if you ignore the “deals”. Even a tiny barrier is going to keep out some number of people that don’t find value in spending 30 seconds to save 25% on a $30 tab because they have the money to not even notice, which increases profitability. Their line goes up. Our system forces all these companies to worry about that line going up.
That said, they aren’t trying to hide it from you, it is the largest thing on their store page, and their people on the phone will happily tell you about it.
Someone else made the same analogy, it is just like going to a drive through and ordering a burger, fries, and drink separately and not asking for a combo. Same products, but most places it will cost you more to order them separately than to order the combo.
If you are still mad about it, you aren’t mad at Dominos, you are mad at the core of our current economic system.
Yes, greedy companies charge more and are making it harder to get things at a responsible price, that’s the mildly infuriating bit.
Never order dominos without coupons. It’s exponentially more expensive than anything you can get with a coupon.
Dominos largest profit margins are on orders exactly like this. It’s often more economical to order more food at a cheaper price.
I just looked on the coupons page on their website. None of the coupons would have applied.
You’re never going to find exactly what you want, but the 5.99 deal for a medium 2 topping also applies to the cheesy bread you ordered, bringing the total down significantly.
Dude could have saved like $6+tax and gotten more food, and is still arguing that nothing could have been done…
Lead a horse to water and all that…
I’m not seeing such a deal.
It looks like it’s now the 6.99 deal
It’s been 6 or 7 years since I worked for dominoes
That pick any 2 for $6.99 each deal would have saved you a bundle.
So would picking it up.
Again- I am extremely smell sensitive.
I go into the pizza place, I heave.
I carry the pizza to the car, I heave.
I drive with the pizza in the car, I have to keep pulling over to heave.
Why do any of you find that reasonable? Would you want to do that just to give someone a pizza?
Yes, I know. The answer is “downvote this comment” rather than accept the fact that it is something I cannot do because of my illness (which I am apparently completely making up).
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Yep. It’s definitely all a lie. You and the others figured it out. But this is another chance to show off my amazing Photoshop skills.
I Photoshop that to pretend I spent all my birthday money on a medical bill. Isn’t that awesome?
You fucked up by not using the coupons
Edit: sorry not trying to blame you, you wouldn’t know they do it this way, but they have extra high prices with really good coupons that are always active and can be used over and over. The best is the mix and match for $6.99.
You’re using Domino’s wrong. You have to use the 2+ two topping medium pizza coupon for $6.99 each. They have it plastered on the website and the app.
I will say it again- that is a waste of food. I am not going to eat it, my daughter doesn’t like cold or reheated pizza and it’s not like I’m going to shove it down her throat.
I am not going to waste food to get a better deal.
And I will also say this again- why should I use a coupon if Domino’s can afford to charge less anyway? They should just charge less.
Edit: You all keep downvoting me without telling me why Domino’s shouldn’t just charge less when they can afford to.
Regardless of who is right you should stop getting worked up over opinions from basement dwelling goblins. It’s the first rule of the internet. It can’t be used healthily otherwise.
Apparently, everything I say is a lie. So maybe I’m the troll?
the issue isn’t you’re lying.
the issue is you’re complaining about a fault with you, and blaming it on someone else. The fact you’re not taking responsibility is why you’re being dragged through the mud.
your post should be “oops, I forgot to use a coupon like a normal person and forgot to ask the store if they had any deals. look what my stupidity got me!” and you’d have some chuckles and some commiserations.
Instead, you’re trying to blame Domino’s for you not knowing that coupons have existed since the 1800s or something.
Your (and other people’s) answer is “you shouldn’t be stupid.” But I can’t control my level of intelligence, can I? So let’s say for the sake of argument that I have a very low level of intelligence. Why does that give Domino’s the right to take advantage of that and charge me more than smarter people?
Why are you and others justifying Domino’s charging stupid people more than smart people?
I love this answer!
Fuck 'em, squid. I’ve seen many of your posts/comments. Stupid you ain’t.
Thank you.
don’t be an asshole, FS.
You’re not ignorant, you knew coupons existed, you were just too lazy. Lazy people deserve to be taken advantage of.
And to make matters worse for you, even when shown how to spend less, you’ve actively said that you didn’t want to do that.
You’re being an asshole. You’re being an attention whore.
I did not, in fact, know that coupons existed for ordering pizza online, something I have said repeatedly.
I also never said I didn’t want to do it. That’s just not true. I may have said I don’t plan to order pizza online again, I may have said that I don’t plan on downloading their app, but I never said I didn’t want to do it if I were to ever do so again. Please do not put words in my mouth.
You are right, I hate that I have to navigate a bizarre maze of mathematical conundrums just to order food. I avoid ordering I’m general but the rare time I do it annoys me every time and I always feel like I’m getting ripped off.
why Domino’s shouldn’t just charge less when they can afford to.
Ideally they would charge less, but people are willing to pay the higher prices, so they charge the higher prices. We live in a capitalist society, and they’ll increase the prices as high as the market can bear.
A lot of companies increase their prices but have coupons that bring the price down. Easy way for them to make more money, as people that like the product will continue to buy it, and not every customer will use the coupons.
deally they would charge less, but people are willing to pay the higher prices, so they charge the higher prices. We live in a capitalist society, and they’ll increase the prices as high as the market can bear.
It’s dumb, but it is what it is.
as I called it before, “the lazy tax”. 🤷♂️
Yeah, for sure. Same reason a bunch of subscription stuff goes up in price after a year or two.
Kinda shitty that Dominos has it set up so that tip is calculated on top of the delivery and service fees. Tipping on the value of food, I understand. Tipping on the cost of those other fees is double dipping and bad faith in my opinion.
Seriously, “y’all charged me a service fee to deliver my food? Cool! Let me tip you for that!”
Having done time in the service industry, I have no problem tipping where it’s warranted, but you’re tipping the Dominos corporation for their fuckery at that point, not the driver
Reading the comments about Domino’s coupon obsession, I feel like giving an economics story about when JC Penney said nuts to sales and coupons and nearly went bankrupt.
Corpos in food and retail found that overpricing things then hitting you with deals and coupons caused American audiences to feel like they were getting a good deal. 15 buck pizza for only 6 dollars? Sounds like a deal until you realize that it’s really cheap to make thanks to suppliers and premade frozen pizzas. But if they always price it at 6 bucks, you’re gonna raise an eyebrow.
What if you don’t do that? JC Penney had that idea a few years ago, since their industry basically priced jeans for 100 bucks and then said they were 70% off almost every day. So they tried everyday low prices and… they nearly bankrupted themselves. Lots of factors, but their main factor was their usual clientele thought they weren’t getting a deal even though the prices were cheaper than competitors (while not really attracting a new audience savvy enough to know sales are a scam).
Point is, Domino’s is in a cycle of coupons or bust. It’s a shame you don’t have good pizza options at reasonable prices nearby, though, and a shame the good old days of free delivery seem behind us.
I used to work at a Dominos, and their side items have been ludicrously priced for a good while. There’s usually a “coupon” in their app with a substantial discount on pizza, it’s the only way I’d order from them.
Never buy chain pizza at menu price. They all run specials all the time, that are around half off. They keep menu prices high so that they can constantly run buy one get one promos and specials to make you think you’re getting a deal. They also happen to gouge people who won’t bother checking the deals section
And similarly don’t order fast food without using the app for promos and deals.
I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.
? Why lol just use Google/apple pay
Nah that trash isn’t touching my phone unless I’m homeless and starving
Lol
I went online to place an order for pizza recently. Jets pizza. Everything was super overpriced and so one small pizza and 6 piece wings was $50 after tax and fees, not including tip which I usually do $10. So $60 for one person. I scoffed at the price then hit ‘submit’.
I was then hit with the ‘order does not meet minimum for delivery’. They had a $40 minimum which does not include delivery fee, tax, and tip - I was at $38 something.
I almost added some dipping sauce and sent it through but I felt so violated by the $40 minimum which was actually a $60 minimum that I just gave up.
The only way to order from Dominos is to use coupons, and even them I feel like I always spent more than I intend to. I remember a handful of years ago they were putting flyers on the pizza box saying that the delivery few doesn’t count as a tip. Then what’s the delivery fee for???
Not particularly helpful for you, but this seemed like the thread to chime in that in general with pizza, it’s always MUCH better to go big. Pi*r2, folks. A single 14" Dominos is already pretty much identical to two 10" mediums, and that’s only if you like to eat the crust. Always do your math by dollars per area, not diameter.
