Goodbye Deliveroo, me sad
Deliveroo has exited the Singapore market. It impacts me directly because I've been a Deliveroo rider for the last three plus years – it was my side hustle as I sorted my shit out and figured out what I wanted to pivot to. Even though I'm also on Foodpanda, another food delivery platform, Deliveroo is the best as it has a more direct fee system, for example, it gives you fee boosts vs quests, and the ONE THING that makes it so much better is that it allows riders to “reject jobs without penalty”.
Anyway, the announcement about the exit gave little runway for us all in Singapore.
Announcement made on Feb 26, and exit on Mar 3. Read the article here
WOW. And Ouch.
I'm not even sure the execs at Door Dash (the guys who bought Deliveroo) even know where Singapore is. Anyway, to them we are just a non-performer on a spreadsheet, bound for deletion to make the “books” look better.
I decided to make a video where I travel to almost every zone in Singapore in the little time left they have here in our country, as a symbolic gesture to the platform that allowed me to earn some lunch money while I noodle away at life. I will link to the video here once it is done, so stay tuned.