Food delivery services like UberEats are under threat in Japan. Drivers are leaving now that service wages are rising, and new Japanese apps like Timee compete for gig work. Customers probably won’t tolerate price hikes

Uh duh. I used them while the going was good but I’m out now.

American companies typically abuse this strategy, especially silicon valley startups. They operate on a loss until market dominance, then jack up prices and exploit their workforce to earn as much profit as possible.

It’s easy to see that Uber would fail in Japan after I recognized all the same patterns being used here. They were giving people free deliveries, paying for tons of advertisements, and giving everyone lots of money to establish their foothold. In America what they did was seek profit at every second, jack up prices for customers and attempt to pay basically slave wages to their working staff.

Back then I knew it wouldn’t work because Japanese labor laws are so strict the same companies are going to find themselves in a Walmart in Germany situation, where the American companies get confused about why their American exploitative business model doesn’t work. Not to mention in Tokyo, where delivery was already cheap and abundant, and zoning laws make it so going somewhere to eat was already easy. They may have injected a lot into the Japanese market but they were foolish to think they could compete here.

Customers will tolerate whatever the Joker tells them to.