I've used Uber once. Hated it -- they directed the driver to the wrong side of the mall from where I was at. He cancelled the fare after waiting for 5 or 10 minutes. I had to make another Uber reservation and it ended up being the same driver so I ended up getting charged twice for the ride and waiting an extra 20 minutes. I'd have avoided that if the mall had a regular taxi stand or if I'd had a phone number I could call but I was in another country and while I had data, I didn't have a "local" phone number. Uber and Lyft started off claiming to be ride-sharing services and seemed reasonable but time has revealed that they were really about establishing national taxi services that avoided local laws. I have to admit, that aspect has me divided because I think a lot of the local medallion laws are simple corruption to preserve effective monopolies but it seems to me that Uber and Lyft are fundamentally dishonest .

I've avoided the food delivery services like the plague once I read how they were screwing over restaurants. I also talked to a couple of restauranteurs who explained why they refused to work with certain delivery services (but said delivery services still had their restaurant listed). Chase gave us a $60/mo credit with DoorDash when I had their Sapphire Reserve card but I simply refused to use it as DD seems like a parasite on both the restaurants and the delivery drivers. I'd rather just make the food run myself than feed money to the neterati.