echoes of the bubble : another cutiepants internet grocery
spud: i want you to want me
My heart still aches whenever I’m reminded of the untimely demises of kozmo.com and homegrocer.com. Although I appreciate the minor exercise that I’m forced to endure whenever a craving for food or entertainment strikes me at off hours, nothing really compares to the delight of typing your wishes into the internet and getting results in a matter of minutes. Not to mention the joy of having boxes of groceries appear at your door without any of the hassle of actually going to the store and carting them home. [Ed: don't Albertson's and Safeway do delivery? --yes, but it just isn't the same]
For those who are willing to trust their consumer loyalties to a new electronic suitor, there’s a new kid in town with intentions on wooing you for all of your crunchy grocery needs. Canadian import, SPUD.com (small potatoes urban delivery) wants to save you the trouble of making a trip to your regular organic-friendly neighborhood grocery by dropping off icy cool buckets of fresh goodies on your front porch. Deliveries of more than $35 are free; so it might be worth a try. That is, if you’re able to guard yourself against the possibility that this new internet crush will totally stomp all over your heart when they’re forced to close up shop or leave town.
Has anyone given them a shot?
(via seattle p-i [#])
I am a Spud customer, and a friend of mine works there. They rock! If nothing else, the Harvest Boxes are great because you can pay week by week and adjust what’s in them. You can just let them send you lots of in-season fresh stuff or you can pick and choose by adjusting on the website. I’ve long wanted to get produce boxes, say, from a CSA, but often they want six weeks paid up front or something. This is a bit more affordable for me.
They bring your big purple tub of stuff in a big purple van; the deliveries are somewhat more like delivering farm-share type of thing. (For instance, with HomeGrocer, you could pick the day and the time you got your stuff; SPUD just tells you what day they’re going to be there.) They also throw in good stuff; the first week I got an ivory bell pepper, the next I got three russet potatoes.
Spud good. Also, if anyone wants to sign up, feel free to write to my email address given here and I’ll give you a code to save $25 off your first four deliveries.
Oh, duh, I thought that the comments would show my email address. Try killarney at the gmail place.
Neat find and thanks for the deal, Kristin. My GF and I do a weekly market basket thing every summer and end up with huge piles of green things like ‘bitters’ that rot in our refrigerator while we thumb wrestle for the one (one!) organic peach that got thrown in just to start fights.
I think Albertson’s may charge $10 per delivery. Is that in line with others? For that much, I can drive to the store and back about 85 times…
Maybe online grocery shopping is not for me.
I *heart* kozmo and miss it so.