Originally Posted by Smurf
Some one who never used to charge for a service, and then one day started. And it dose not cost them any more money to make the product: other then gas. And i am asking them to drive 1.8 miles.
Between general liability and driver liability, I'd estimate that the typical store pays about $2800/mo for insurance.
Moreover, since petrol is at or over $2.00/gal almost everywhere, I don't see anything wrong w/passing along that cost to the people who
are costing the money.
I don't think I'd ever do that myself, but I don't think it's all that queer that a restaurant does it.
Charging delivery fees is short sighted, IMHO. You run the risk of hurting your drivers, without whom you cannot run the business.
I don't like when a small retailer passes along credit card fees, but I understand why he feels he has to do it.