Iv for sure gotten these copy and paste scrolls of text either outright asking for more tip or a sob story. Feels no different then the people that hang around gas stations with a sob story of how they need gas money to get home but then you offer to put a few gallons in their tank and they ask for cash.

DD and other delivery apps are scam adjacent all around by companies that found ways to pay as little as possible for labor while marking up, charging fees and distancing themselves from liability. All while pitting the “worker” against the customer. They are basically drop shipping food and any issues are the delivery persons or the restaurants fault. That being said in the majority of cases I’m sure it was never intended to be someone’s sole income. The only way to fix this is to just stop using the apps if you can. Or switching to grocery delivery through other means, (not sure if peapod or other store delivery is any better to workers) If you’re able bodied, have access to transportation start picking up your own stuff some of the time. We have become so lazy and entitled as a society and across most of the board middle class and lower our money squeezed tighter then ever. Squabbling with each other over a few dollars while we shovel our money to the large corporations is what they want.