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Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology

Why people are ordering fake food and fashion deliveries on free ‘dopamine apps’

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It’s Saturday night and you’ve downloaded a new food delivery app. You’ve scanned the menus, picked some Mexican dishes, placed your order and are now tracking the delivery. But your food never comes – and you never expected it to.

It sounds ridiculous if you’ve never tried it, but this viral trend is more popular than you might think. Just one app alone, FoodNeverComes, claims nearly 1 million “cravings satisfied” to date.

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