Food Panda is almost no more...........On May 23rd Panda is Finished in Thailand...

[redwood1]

First we lose Hungry Now......And Now we lose Food Panda.......These were the 2 most English friendly sites.....

 

Food Panda would have 50-60-70 baht even 80 baht discounts some times....I used them quite a bit when the were handing out discounts...

 

Now we only have Line, Grab, And Shopee  food delivery and thats it...

 

I will miss Food Panda....But Hungry Now was my favorite....

[Packer]

How will we live!!!

[redwood1]

4 minutes ago, Packer said:

How will we live!!!

 

Alls I know is I should stay far away from my balcony for a while..

[Jingthing]

That is shocking!

But weirdly I stopped using them after they wouldn't accept my cards for payment.

I also find their offerings inferior to Grab.

I only use Line if it's a special place that isn't on another app.

Yes of course Hungry Now was fantastic but they were clearly trying to buy market share and it didn't work.

Is there any reason to check out Shopee?

About Grab discounts simply join their premium "club" very inexpensively and get a 20 percent discount one per day up to 80 baht pretty much year round except for holidays and peak periods. Also discounts on all deliveries.

 

The code for this is: EXPAT20

 

Sometimes you have to work a bit to learn the codes though but if you're in the club always try EXPAT20.

 

[redwood1]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

That is shocking!

But weirdly I stopped using them after they wouldn't accept my cards for payment.

I also find their offerings inferior to Grab.

I only use Line if it's a special place that isn't on another app.

Yes of course Hungry Now was fantastic but they were clearly trying to buy market share and it didn't work.

Is there any reason to check out Shopee?

About Grab discounts simply join their premium "club" very inexpensively and get a 20 percent discount one per day up to 80 baht pretty much year round except for holidays and peak periods. Also discounts on all deliveries.

 

The code for this is: EXPAT20

 

Sometimes you have to work a bit to learn the codes though but if you're in the club always try EXPAT20.

 

 

Shopee is good, as long as you can translate....Their discounts are pretty good...But make sure you click on all the food/delivery vouchers before you order..

[impulse]

What's the scuttlebutt on why Food Panda is going tits up?  And Hungry Now?

 

 

[Jingthing]

Overall this is bad news for consumers.

I assume that at least at one time Panda had a decent market share.

Now with them gone, less competition, and less reason for remaining players to offer good incentives.

[Jingthing]

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

What's the scuttlebutt on why Food Panda is going tits up?  And Hungry Now?

 

 

Good question. But when I was using Hungry Now the giveaways for market share were so generous (too good to be true) that it was obvious they couldn't sustain that for very long. 

[ronnie50]

Too bad for Pattaya. I never liked Food Panda in Bangkok. GRAB has always been the best, at least the most convenient, but I agree not all menus are in English - seems to be the fast food places mostly that are in Thai - don't know why. There are some other food delivery ops here but I never use them - just seen them - like Robin Hood. LINE Man seems too much hassle to bother with and, as someone said, it seems to be the bottom feader or smallish places that rely on them. I just don't bother at all with LINE Man. It's not good news though that GRAB is going to have a near monopoly and it could mean longer wait times for deliveries, and even for a driver to accept the order. Some years ago, when GRAB was just getting started, I remember how odd it seemed that people would order McDonalds or Pizza Hut through GRAB when the restaurants would actually deliver for free with their own drivers.