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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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?
Maybe you can’t/won’t read an entire prompt before ejaculating your emotional retort?
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
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.
Did you order online?
Did you ignore the deal they shove in your face as soon as you visit the website that would have made the order much cheaper?
You mean the deal where I have to order two of something and pay $7 for each one? That would have been more expensive and a waste of food.
…buddy…
Don’t complain about how things work when you don’t know how things work XD
Click on the 2 or more deal and do some exploring, this is a learning moment that will revolutionize your Domino’s experience forever!
Don’t complain about how things work when you don’t know how things work XD
Again, why is it my fault that Domino’s is taking advantage of my not knowing how their system works? The last time I ordered a pizza before this, you had to do it by phone. I don’t order pizza. So why should I be expected to know how ordering pizza over the internet works? Am I supposed to absorb the information indirectly somehow?
What exactly do you have to gain by defending corporate deceptive practices?
Buddy I’m not “defending deceptive corporate practices”, I’m trying to teach you how to use the deals they shove in your face so you can save money.
Domino’s isn’t “taking advantage of you not knowing how the system works” when they plaster the deals in all caps on their homepage. They want you to use the deals, and make it very easy to use the deals.
I would think there’d be less obstinate boomerism on Lemmy, but apparently not. You have eyes, you have fingers, and presumably a brain. You could have used them, you didn’t. You paid more than you had to as a result. You now have the option to learn, and not make the same mistake again.
Considering people keep insisting I do something I didn’t know was a thing I could do and berating me for not knowing it, I think getting mildly annoyed by people saying that, and the people telling me to get takeout when I can’t, is damn reasonable after dealing with people saying it for a day.
I’m sorry I don’t know what I don’t know and I’m tired of getting berated for not knowing what I don’t know as if I somehow should have known it through osmosis.
I’m not a boomer, I’m 46. I just don’t order pizza. Hence my putting that in the headline. I probably won’t order pizza again either unless something unexpected like this happens again.
Hey man, just wanted to say that I’m on your side
I hate it that prices are getting somewhat hidden or I need to shop in a specific manner to get a discount.
Just tell me your fucking price and then I’ll decide, if it’s worth it for me.
I don’t care to read or search through your website for offers. I want to order what I want and that’s fucking itThank you. Exactly.
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.
There’s a reason for this, they want you to download the app because you’re paying for that coupon via primary access to your personal data. Dominos isn’t just a pizza company, for a long time now they have been a data broker too.
Which I guess isn’t surprising, everyone and their mother wants to be a data broker today. It’s a good reason not to install any apps from anyone though.
I have questions about how useful the basic information Dominos gets from me from their app will be to anyone. Android doesn’t let them just harvest roaming data any more.
people who pay full price for corporate pizzas and complain about it are hilarious.
you obviously have internet access. there is no excuse to pay so much. Use their website. Install their app. Even in the 90s pre-internet there were an endless supply of flyer-coupons/discounts.
Full price is a tax on stupid, gullible or the lazy. You paid the lazy tax. 🤷♂️
That all said: yes, the lazy tax / full price prices are insane. I have no idea why anyone would pay them, especially with the difference coupons makes.
also: 1) tipping is a good thing to do 2) if you can’t afford to tip, don’t tip. If you can, do. I don’t factor BS into prices and complaints.
Apologies for being stupid, gullible and lazy for something I almost never do and haven’t done in years. Clearly I should keep abreast with the latest pizza ordering trends.
Also, I used the internet to order the pizza, but I sure as hell am not installing their app.
And I did tip them and I can afford it and I wasn’t complaining about the tip. Why would I have tipped 20% if I had a problem with tipping?
It’s like you didn’t read anything I wrote. I’m surprised you didn’t tell me I should have gotten carry out.
but seriously - given you basically live on the internet these days, what was your excuse for not spending 30 seconds to get a coupon code to put into the website?
My lack of knowledge that they exist?
I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don’t usually do.
youre trying to tell us that you didn’t know coupons exist? Come on.
this is on you.
yes, full price is insanely expensive, but the fact that anyone would ever pay it - and be in a situation where paying it is worthy of a complaint - is insane.
You were lazy and you paid the lazy tax. You want to call yourself “and” stupid, sure, whatever. But call a spade a spade. Own your mistake and don’t blame Domino’s.
Internet coupons? No, I have never heard of such a thing. Amazon sure doesn’t offer them. NewEgg doesn’t offer them. eBay doesn’t offer them. Threadless doesn’t offer them. I don’t buy from anyone else.
I know that you all think I’m supposed to know how to order food from the Internet properly with no one telling me about it. I just want to know how you all think I was supposed to know without anyone telling me.
Now I’m confused if you’re being sarcastic or not. Do you think those sites don’t offer coupons? (because they do)
I don’t know how many times I have to say I never order food on the Internet, but I still never order food on the Internet Internet. Somehow, I was supposed to find out how to order food on the Internet cheaper by osmosis. That’s what you all seem to be telling me. The weird thing is, none of you seem to be saying that Domino’s is charging too much and then charging people less if they use a coupon, when they could just charge everyone less to begin with.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
Have you seen the responses here? Paints a picture on why they felt the need to defend themselves.
Skill issue.
Check the deals tab on the website, you could have gotten a medium and cheesy bread for at least $10 less that what you paid for this.
Don’t blame the restaurant when you won’t even try to save money.
Learning to “life-hack” a web site for deals (especially when in a crisis) shouldn’t be a prerequisite for purchasing food at a reasonable price. The onus should not be on the consumer to not get ripped off by the seller.
This is just a continuation of systemic failure of business running rampant on the web without any reasonable regulation to prevent it.
Sorry, why is it my fault to know that they offered discounts? Why should they offer them in the first place? Why not just charge that amount if they can afford to? Is it because you have to enter extra information for those coupons to work for them to harvest your data?
You are the parent of your daughter… yet she dictates to you what she eats?
There’s your problem to begin with. You know what happened when I refused to eat what my mother made? Dealt with it… by not eating anything.
Yeah yeah here comes the downvotes from non-parents and parents who don’t know how to parent.
Also, thanks Biden. The economy is doing GRRRRRREAAT!
FJB.
A child with agency?!? Making decisions?!?? Not in MY white fright dystopia they wont!! I was abused and therefore I am entitled to abuse any child I see, because I am a child in my mind! Why would I ever address my own deficiencies when I have a political figure to scapegoat every decade or so?
I’m Latino, wife is Arab… we are not the same as you gringos. Your child has authority over you, we have authority over our children. This is the way.
Stay salty.
Children obeying you because they are afraid of being beaten isn’t having authority over them. Its abuse, but sure, fall back on racism to feel superior.
Someone should have called you out for claiming, I used, “beating” or that my children are afraid in general of me and or their mother… Instead you got upvotes… dafuq is wrong with your reading comprehension? You high? Too much my little pony?
No one likes you, that’s all.
Sure sure, keep going. You are TOTALLY getting back at me. Go on, keep trying the tough guy act. If nothing else it’s amusing.
This is why I always get a Costco 18" pizza for $10 every time I’m at the store. Yes, the pizza quality is not great, but neither are any of these other chains that charge 3x (or more) for less pizza of similar quality.
WinCo actually has good pizza for not only hella cheap, they will accept food stamps for them by selling you an uncooked pie and then offering to cook it for free after you pay.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
I live in one of Germany’s largest cities, and while this is high, it’s not outrageously high.
I guess to me what sticks out the most is the expected 20% surcharge for “tips” (that get collected by the bosses indirectly anyways as they just underpay their slaves enough to make up for the tips they’re getting). That’s not normal here. You tip for good service, if you pay in cash you also tip to round usually, and you tip if there’s some other outstandingly positive thing about it. I really hate how in the US it’s become so expected to tip, while also having fuck all protection for the delivery drivers, who ought to get a wage where tips are a bonus, not an expectation. It’s just a delivery fee at this point, let’s be honest.
Although I will also say that since I live basically next door to a Dominos, I always pick up, which is ~25%-30% cheaper than delivery. Plus no delivery charge, but that’s based on distance I imagine.
German here as well. From the pizza place of my choice, I usually order a large pizza (36cm) and some extra pizza rolls. 22 Euros in total, delivery included. I usually tip around 10%, so rounded up 25 Euros. And that’s considered expensive where I come from. I remember it being way lower.
Yeah sounds expensive to me. Also a German. 1 Pizza delivered is around 10€ that’s it. But that wouldnt get me over the minimum delivery order though. Not a problem for me yet since I’ve never ordered a pizza only for myself
10€??? Like… same size? Is there anything wrong with it that it’s so low?
No, they are smaller. The largest size is 30cm which is enough for me though. The most expensive one with that size costs 11,50€. Another delivery place has 32cm ones. Most expensive there is 9,40€. There is nothing inherently wrong with them. They aren’t from an Italian restaurant though and aren’t the same quality you would get in a real restaurant. They still taste good and satisfy your pizza cravings though. Delivery is free too if you’re over the minimum order balance. From what I’d guess they are on the are more like those fast food pizza places like Pizza Hut or Domino’s but I’ve ordered like maybe once from them so I’m not sure.
Maybe we both use deliveries differently. If I order something for delivery I don’t expect Restaurant quality food. If your pizza is from a Italian restaurant and is really well made/restaurant quality I see why it’s so expensive. For me delivery is more “fancy” than fast food but not as “fancy” as actually eating in a real restaurant
