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by dsr_ 300 days ago
The problem is usually not "there are 300 food delivery services" but "there are three food delivery services and they control the market".
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It's a business model problem; The "Uber" business model relies on a monopoly.

The business model is 1) "Have artificially low prices to push all competing business into bankrupty", 2) "Now that we're a monopoly, raise prices massively", 3) Massive profit, so long as no government starts doing anything about the fact that both steps #1 and #2 are illegal.

That business model fails the moment you have multiple startups dumping the market, none can move to step #2 because they'd bleed all their users to whichever competitor is still in step #1.

It's restaurants that don't want to deal with 300 apps. They will pick the top 3 and call it a day.
.. and that's also a problem.