Under The Counter saw the news about Booker’s partnership between Scoot and Just Eat, that lets retailers offer home delivery without employing their own drivers.
Apparently, Scoot has developed an API integration with Just Eat to simplify delivery operations for retailers. UTC has no idea what that means but hazarded a guess it was something to do with computers. In his world, API is pub-related, short for, “A pint, immediately!”
Anyway, UTC has a word of warning for retailers thinking about signing up: don’t sell ice cream.
Technically those are three words, but you get the picture. You might be slightly less clear on what the Auld Boy is wittering on about now.
Well, it turns that some slightly less than honest Just Eat customers are exploiting a loophole in the delivery service’s platform that is leaving struggling businesses out of pocket.
Cake shop owner Andrea Blow reckons she has been diddled out of more than a grand by a series of spurious complaints left by unscrupulous Just Eat users. Besides people saying their orders never arrived, Andrea claims that the Just Eat app lets users order ice cream and then get a refund by saying it was delivered cold. Actual.
You can’t fault their logic.
If only the same could be said for UTC’s. After having “a think about it” i.e. disappearing from the office with a rolled-up newspaper for 15 minutes, the Auld Boy revised his warning. He now advises that if someone orders a box of Magnums, retailers should pop them in a microwave oven for two minutes before sending them out the door.
