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September 26, 2006
New Seasons Home Delivery (not by bike, but by biodiesel)
Remember Bread Delivery by Bike? I emailed New Seasons about the idea and they sent me back a really nice email saying they liked the idea, but pointing out some obstacles they saw (they thought someone would need to be home to accept delivery, the bread might get wet in the rain, and they wanted employees with benefits, not hobos, to do the delivery). When I responded with solutions to some of the obstacles (locked breadboxes, tarps, universal health care), they told me that this was in the works -- home delivery by biodiesel van! And lo and behold, they have made it so!
This is great news for people going without a car, people who don't want to make an extra trip to the grocery store, the agoraphobic, and the just-plain-lazy. For my part, I will save the $9.95 delivery fee simply by not going into the store and impulse-buying a teapot shaped like an elephant or something. And it's nice that you can't tip, I think, because tipping always stresses me out. You can also do pick up for $4.95, where you place your order and then drive and pick it up on the parking lot.
This will probably increase the overall number of times a month I go shopping. I used WebVan a couple of times before it went under, and I loved it. I hope they have a thing where the website remembers you and what you like to buy frequently. And I think it would be great if you could have "friends" set up like in Netflix, so your friends could recommend foods! Maybe they could link up a dating service, too -- you know, like, "you're obviously shopping single, and you like whole seed mustard, maybe you'd like this person"? or something like that?!
The service isn't cheap enough to use it to keep you in fresh bread (unless you're some kind of a millionaire or something) so bread-by-bike delivery would still be useful! Someone should hop to it!
But I'm very happy to see this great idea put into practice and come mid-October, I'll be buying mine online!
Posted by mary at September 26, 2006 7:44 AM
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